Krista Thompson, Weinberg College Board of Visitors Professor in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University, is the author of An Eye for the Tropics (2006), Developing Blackness (2008), Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African
Diasporic Aesthetic Practice (2015), articles in American Art, Art Bulletin, Art Journal, Representations, and Small Axe and co-editor En Mas»: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean (in production).
Her book Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African
Diasporic Aesthetic Practice — written about the intersection of popular photography, performance, and contemporary art in the circum — Caribbean will be published by Duke University Press in 2015.