Samantha A. Noël is Associate Professor of Art History and Hawkins Ferry Endowed Chair in Modern and Contemporary Art at Wayne State University. Her research focuses on the art, visual culture, and performance of the Black diaspora, and she is the author of Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism (Duke University Press, 2021). Her work has appeared in journals such as Small Axe, Third Text, Art Journal, and Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, and has been supported by institutions including the Terra Foundation and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.