Assistant Professor, Art, Fall 2023 | Chris Dingwall is a historian of American and African American design with particular interest in race, material culture, political economy, and the relationship between art and power in scenes of everyday life and labor. Currently, he is writing Selling Slavery: Race and the Industry of American Culture, a book for Cambridge University Press, and co-editing Black Designers in Chicago, a collected volume and exhibition catalogue for the University of Chicago Press. His work has been supported by the Terra Foundation of American Art and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and his writing about cultural history and contemporary art and design has appeared in AIGA Eye on Design, Archives of American Art, and the Gagosian Quarterly.