Dr. Joana Joachim is Assistant professor of Black Studies in Art Education, Art History and Social Justice. Her research and teaching interests include Black feminist art histories, Black diasporic art histories, critical museologies, Black Canadian studies, and Canadian slavery studies. Her manuscript in progress,There/Then, Here/Now (working title), examines investigates practices of self-preservation and self-care through the lens of Black livingness and creolization in the visual culture of Black women’s hair and dress in both historical and contemporary art practices. She earned her PhD in the department of Art History and Communication Studies and at the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at McGill University working under the supervision of Dr. Charmaine A. Nelson. Dr. Joachim obtained her Master’s degree in Museology from Université de Montréal and her BFA from University of Ottawa. In 2020 she was appointed as a McGill Provostial Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Institutional Histories, Slavery and Colonialism.
Dr. Joachim’s scholarship has appeared in books, journals and magazines including Manuel Mathieu: World Discovered Under Other Skies, History, art and Blackness in Canada, Canadian Journal of History /Annales Canadiennes d’Histoire, RACAR, Mixed Heritage: (Self) Portraits and Identity Negotiation (Americana: e-Journal Of American Studies In Hungary) and C Magazine.
