Samantha A. Noël is an Associate Professor of Art History and the Hawkins Ferry Endowed Chair in Modern and Contemporary Art at Wayne State University. She received her B.A. in Fine Art from Brooklyn College, C.U.N.Y., and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from Duke University. Her research interests revolve around the history of art, visual culture and performance of the Black Diaspora. She has published on Black modern and contemporary art and performance in journals such as Small Axe, Third Text, Art Journal, October, and Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture. Noël has also contributed essays to exhibition catalogues as well as chapters to the following edited volumes: Carnival is Women: Feminism and Performance in Caribbean Mas’ and Transnational Belonging and Female Agency in the Arts. Noël’s book, Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism (Duke University Press, 2021), offers a thorough investigation of how Caribbean and American artists of the early twentieth century were responding to the colonial and hegemonic regimes through visual and performative tropicalist representation. It privileges the land and how a sense of place is critical in the identity formation of early twentieth-century artists as well as their creative processes. Noël is working on a second book tentatively titled Diasporic Art in the Age of Black Power, where she examines the impact of the Black Power Movement on visual art as it emerged in the political, historical, and social contexts of the United States of America and the Anglophone Caribbean in the 1960s and 1970s. Noël’s research has been supported by the Terra Foundation, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Moreau Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame. She has also received a number of grants and fellowship from Wayne State University.