Dr. Jared Richardson

Dr. Jared C.B. Richardson is an independent curator and scholar of modern and contemporary art and Black diaspora studies. He earned his Master of Arts and Ph.D. in the Department of African American Studies at Northwestern University. He also received his Master of Arts from the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin and his Bachelor of Arts in from the Departments of Art History and Philosophy at the University of Miami. In 2019, Richardson completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Program of African and African American Studies at Stanford University. His research interests also include sound studies, popular culture, new materialisms, and the visual economies of the Black diaspora.

As a cross-institutional educator, has collaborated with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt of Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for the 2018-2019 project Mississippi: An Anthropocene River. Located at the intersection of environmentalism, health, and race within the Delta, this endeavor features the podcast series Broadcasting Live from Field-Station Five, which traverses artistic, scholarly, and activist-based communities.

Richardson’s forthcoming manuscript The Black Aquatic: Affect and Occiduus considers the intersection to water, cinema and/or new media, and Black critical thought in the context of affect theory.