A Vital Matters Voice: Katherine Smith
Katherine
Smith
Former curatorial and research associate of Haitian arts
Fowler Museum at UCLA
BIOGRAPHY
Katherine Smith earned her Ph.D. in culture and performance studies from the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance. She held fellowships at Brown University in the departments of Africana Studies and the History of Art and Architecture, and at New York University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She was a curatorial and research associate of Haitian arts at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, a lecturer in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, and a visiting researcher in the UCLA International Institute. Smith has played a curatorial role in exhibitions of Haitian art at Brown University and UCLA. She publishes regularly in academic journals, edited volumes, and art catalogues on Haitian and Caribbean art and religion. Her work draws on her extensive fieldwork in Haiti carried out intermittently between 2005 and 2018. She presently lives in England, where she is taking a hiatus from academia to spend time with her family and focus on projects close to her heart, which include revising her manuscript on death and religious transformation in urban Haiti and her latest research on Freemasonry in the Black Atlantic.
