Jennifer Burris

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She is currently Lecturer in the Museum Studies Graduate Program at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, where her teaching focuses on international art histories from the global south, museum interpretation, and public memory or commemoration. As director of Athénée Press, she continues to work closely with artists and scholars on book projects that explore site-specificity, radical archiving, and research methodologies as forms of artistic practice.