Kymberly N. Pinder, Ph.D.  is an associate professor and chair in the Department of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  She teaches, writes and lectures on representations of religion, history and race in American Art.  Her work most recently has been on Kara Walker in The Art Bulletin and Shinique Smith in the Art Journal. She is the editor of Race-ing Art History:  Critical Readings in Race and Art History (Routledge, 2002). Dr. Pinder has been a lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Terra Museum of American Art and the Art Institute of Chicago.   She has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon, Ford and Henry Luce Foundations.  In 2007 she was a scholar-in-residence at the Georgia O’Keeffe Research Center where she was completing her book manuscript on murals in Chicago’s African American churches entitled Black Public Art and Religion. For more information, visit her facult biography page.