Lisa Uddin writes and teaches critical histories of modern and contemporary art, visual culture, and the built environment, with a focus on U.S. racial formations. She is Associate Professor of Art History and Paul Garrett Fellow at Whitman College, located in the traditional Weyíiletpuu (Cayuse), Imatalamláma (Umatilla), and Walúulapam (Walla Walla) homelands. Previously, Uddin taught at the Corcoran College of Art and Design, and held postdoctoral fellowships in Environment, Culture, and Sustainability at the University of Minnesota and at Brown University’s Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. Her work has been supported by the Getty Research Institute, the Smithsonian Institution, the Social Science Research Council of Canada, among others. This site features selected scholarship and pedagogy as a map for possible collaborations. Please reach out if interested.

Design History

Art Criticism, Black Study

Open Black

(Open Access) Writing


Interpreting Race and Space

Sensing Sovereignty

Investigating Collections

Image credits: author photograph of 1911 general store at Allensworth CA; book cover of Zoo Renewal: White Flight and the Animal Ghetto, 2015; banner collage for Black One Shot on ASAP/J, 2020; screenshot of Instagram post @wangechistudio, 09/11/19; illustration of the squat, Natural Energy Design Handbook, September 1973; cover of Architectural Forum, April 1973; photograph of student presentation in ARTH 355 courtesy of Sheehan Gallery, 2021; photograph of student presentation in ARTH 230, 2022; film still from Men of the Forest (United States Information Service, 1952).