Dr. Earnestine Lovelle Jenkins is an Art History Professor at the University of Memphis, where her scholarship focuses on the visual cultural history of the African Diaspora. The objectives of her research, publications and teaching supports scholarly arts education in the growing area of African American and African Diaspora art histories. She is interested in the centuries of exchange throughout the African Diaspora across regions, cultures, and histories. Having trained in the fine arts, art history, and history, her methods and theories of analysis are comparative and interdisciplinary. Specific research interests encompass American art & culture; researching African American artists of the 20th century; 19th and 20th century African American photography and photographic culture; the relationship between the arts-politics-leadership, including 19th and early 20th century Ethiopia; and Black visual culture studies of the urban south.