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Assistant Professor of Art History
Director of Museum Studies Program

Nygaard, Amy. “In the Shadow of Humanity: Monsters and Mimicry in the Works of Jane Alexander.” Nka 1 May 2025; 2025 (56): 36–48. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-11810598

Nygaard, Amy. “Memetic Reproduction of Anthropological Knowledge: Ethnographic Dioramas and Jane Alexander’s ‘African Adventure’ (1999-2002)” in The Fabrics of Anthropological Knowledge: Changing Perspectives in and Beyond Europe. Eds., Hande Birkalan-Gedik and Fabiana Dimpflmeier. New York: Berghahn Books. 2025.

Nygaard, Amy. “Jane Alexander, Butcher Boys,” Smarthistory, September 29, 2020. https://smarthistory.org/jane-alexander-butcher-boys/

“The Legacy of Violence: Apartheid Monsters and Post-Apartheid Mimicry in the Work of Contemporary South African Artist Jane Alexander,” Symposia on Postcolonial Hauntologies: Art in the Presence-Absence of the Past, Concordia University, Montreal, March 5, 2025.

Panel Chair, College Art Association, “Museums and Trauma: Theory and Practice,” Chicago, IL, February 14, 2024.

“Wangechi Mutu’s The NewOnes will Free Us and the Politics of Museal Time and Space” Midwest Art History Society Conference, March 2023, Milwaukee, WI.

Samuel H. Kress Foundation Teaching Fellowship, Smithsonian Archives of American Art, 2024-2025.