Lisa Uddin

Lisa Uddin is an associate professor of art history and Paul Garrett Fellow at Whitman College, occupying the traditional Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla homelands. Her work moves between histories of modern art and architecture, Black Studies, U.S. urbanism, and the environmental humanities. She is the author of Zoo Renewal: White Flight and the Animal Ghetto (University of Minnesota Press, 2015), and co-edits the art criticism series “Black One Shot” on ASAP/J, the open-access journal for the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. She currently researches Black design practices in twentieth-century California and collaborates on anti-colonial regional arts and visual culture projects.