Cheryl Finley is Assistant Professor of Art History. She holds a Ph. D. in African American Studies and  History of Art from Yale University. Dr. Finley frequently writes and lectures about African Diaspora Art History, Photography, Contemporary Art, Heritage and Tourism and the Politics of Memory. She is author of several articles, books and essays, some of which have been translated into German, Spanish and Portuguese, including  Imaging African Art: Documentation and Experimentation.  Her current manuscripts include Committed to Memory: the Slave Ship Icon in the Black Atlantic Imagination,  a cultural history of the image of the slave ship, and a monograph on the artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, both to be published in the coming year.  The recipient of numerous awards and grants, Dr. Finley's reserach has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, and Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellowship, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, among others.