Jordana Moore Saggese Email & Phone Number

College Park, MD, US

College Park, MD

The Driskell Center is a creative incubator at the University of Maryland dedicated to a world with Black art at its center. As Director I manage and oversee long-term planning and policies for The Driskell Center, including financial and strategic plans for all areas of responsibility and the administrations of those plans. This includes the timely.

College Park, MD

I am an Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary American Art at the University of Maryland, College Park. My research centers on modern and contemporary American visual culture with an emphasis on expressions and theorizations of blackness. My first book Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art (University of California Press, 2014).

I know what it feels like to be overwhelmed and lost in an academic career. As a first-generation student I struggled through graduate school and my first years on the tenure track, constantly questioning my ability, doubting my research, and comparing myself to everyone else. ​​Bringing to bear my more than two decades of experience in the professoriate.

Phd, Modern & Contemporary Art History

Ma, Art History (20Th Century)

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Art History