A Vital Matters Voice: Jerry Philogene
Jerry
Philogene
Associate Professor, Chair of Black Studies Program
Middlebury College
BIOGRAPHY
Jerry Philogene is associate professor of Black Studies and director of the Black studies program at Middlebury College. Previously, she was associate professor in the American studies department at Dickinson College. She specializes in interdisciplinary American cultural history, art history, and visual arts of the Caribbean and the African diaspora, with an emphasis on the Francophone Caribbean. Her publications have appeared in peer-reviewed journals and exhibition catalogues. In 2023, Philogene, together with Katherine Smith, co-organized the Fowler Museum exhibition Myrlande Constant: The Work of Radiance, which showcased the contemporary textile works of Haitian artist Myrlande Constant. Philogene is the recipient of a 2020 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for her book manuscript The Socially Dead and Improbable Citizen: Visualizing Haitian Humanity and Visual Aesthetics. She is also writing a monograph on Haitian modernist artist Luce Turnier.
