Alexandra M. Thomas

Assistant Professor of Art History

Faculty Memorial Hall 444
Fordham University-Rose Hill Campus
441 E. Fordham Road
Bronx, NY 10458

Phone:  718-817-4895
Email:  [email protected]

Office Hours:  By appointment

Education

PhD in African American Studies/History of Art, Certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University

BA in African and African American Studies/Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University

Specialization

African and African diasporic visual culture; global modern and contemporary art; Black studies; gender studies; Black feminist thought; queer of color critique.

Biography

Alexandra M. Thomas is an Assistant Professor of Art History and Affiliated Faculty in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Fordham. Her teaching and research focus on African and African diasporic art histories with an emphasis on gender, sexuality, and migration. Currently, she is writing about the Black queer feminist errantry of the artist Mildred Thompson.

Aly is also an art critic: her writing can be found in Hyperallergic, Texte zur Kunst, Frieze, and various exhibition catalogs. Prior to Fordham, she curated the exhibitions “Paul Camacho: El Ritmo y La Unidad” at MoCA Westport, and “Homecoming: Domesticity and Kinship in Global African Art” at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College.

She has a decade of museum experience in various capacities at institutions such as the Yale Art Gallery, Rose Art Museum, Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, and more. She has taught classes at Yale School of Art, UMass Amherst, Brandeis University, and Fairfield University.

Since 2021, Aly is one of the assistant directors for the Schomburg Mellon Summer Humanities Institute in Harlem, where she herself was a fellow in 2017.