Naomi Etsehiywot

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Doctoral Student
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Naomi Alao Etsehiywot received her BA from UChicago in Art History (2017), where she studied representations of blackness, domesticity, and racialized melancholia in postwar and contemporary visual media. She has worked for museums, libraries, and community centers as a researcher, curatorial assistant, and archivist, particularly on projects relating to Black political aesthetics. Currently she researches the social and discursive construction of childhood in relation to blackness, psychoanalysis, and critical theory.