. Dr. Temi Odumosu | Open Restitution Africa

Temi Odumosu is an art historian, curator and Assistant Professor at the University of Washington Information School in Seattle, USA. Her international research and cultural practice is concerned with the representation of African peoples, visual and affective politics of slavery and colonialism, archives and archival practices, digitisation of cultural heritage, Afro-Diaspora aesthetics, and more broadly exploring how art mediates social transformation and healing. Her PhD thesis at the University of Cambridge explored the construction and use of African caricatures in British satirical prints during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This work provided the basis for her book Africans in English Caricature 1769-1819: Black Jokes, White Humour (2017).

Temi Odumosu is an art historian, curator and Assistant Professor at the University of Washington Information School in Seattle, USA. Her international research and cultural practice is concerned with the representation of African peoples, visual and affective politics of slavery and colonialism, archives and archival practices, digitisation of cultural heritage, Afro-Diaspora aesthetics, and more broadly exploring how art mediates social transformation and healing. Her PhD thesis at the University of Cambridge explored the construction and use of African caricatures in British satirical prints during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This work provided the basis for her book Africans in English Caricature 1769-1819: Black Jokes, White Humour (2017).

Dr. Temi Odumosu

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