Jerry Philogene

Jerry Philogene is Associate Professor and Director of the Black Studies Program at Middlebury College. Dr. Philogene 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.

Dr. Philogene is also an independent curator. In 2023, she co-organized with Dr. Katherine Smith the Myrlande Constant: The Work of Radiance, an exhibition and accompanying catalogue on the contemporary textile works of Haitian artist Myrlande Constant at the Fowler Museum, UCLA, 2023. Dr. Philogene is the recipient of a 2020 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for her current book manuscript The Socially Dead and Improbable Citizen: Visualizing Haitian Humanity and Visual Aesthetics. She is also writing a monograph on Haitian modernist painter, Luce Turnier.