Nana Adusei Poku

Nana Adusei-Poku, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in African Diasporic Art History in the Department of History of Art at the University of California Berkeley. She was previously Associate Professor and Luma Foundation Fellow at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (2019-2022), and Visiting Professor in Art History of the African Diaspora at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City (2018-2019). She also held the position Research Professor for Cultural Diversity (2013-2014) and then for Visual Cultures (2015-2017) at the Hogeschool Rotterdam with affiliation to the Piet Zwart Institute and the Willem de Kooning Academy and was a Guest Lecturer in Media Arts and Master Fine Arts at the University of the Arts, Zurich (2012-2018). She received her Ph.D. from Humboldt University Berlin for her thesis on post-black art as part of the Graduate program called “Gender as a category of Knowledge”, following degrees in African Studies and Gender Studies at Humboldt University, and in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London.