Visual & Critical Studies Graduate Program Chair

Jacqueline Francis, PhD, is the author of Making Race: Modernism and “Racial Art” in America (University of Washington Press, 2012) and coeditor of Romare Bearden: American Modernist (National Gallery of Art, 2011). Francis serves on the boards of Third Text: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art & Culture and the National Committee for the History of Art. Francis is also a curator—recent exhibitions include Fight and Flight: Crafting a Life in San Francisco (Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, 2023) and You Will Be Remembered: New Work by Adia Millett (Galerie du Monde, Hong Kong, 2022). A member of the 3.9 Art Collective of San Francisco, she is a writer who was awarded an Individual Artist Commission grant by the San Francisco Arts Commission in 2017. Both Francis and the 3.9 Art Collective were named to the 2023 YBCA 100 list, in recognition of their work in the San Francisco Bay Area cultural community.