Charmaine Branch is a Ph.D. candidate in the Departments of Art & Archaeology and African American Studies. She studies modern and contemporary art of the African Diaspora with a focus on Black feminist literature and theory. Her dissertation addresses Black women artists’ contributions to Black intellectual histories of collecting and archiving in the United States. She is currently the Programming Coordinator for the digital humanities research project, Art Hx: Visual and Medical Legacies of British Colonialism, and has provided administrative support for Princeton University programs including the film series, Combahee Experimental: Black Women’s Experimental Filmmaking, curated by Tina Campt and Simone Leigh.

Branch holds an M.A. in Modern Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies from Columbia University and a B.A. in Art History from Vassar College. Prior to Princeton, she worked as a Curatorial Fellow at The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Museum of Modern Art, where she contributed to several exhibitions and permanent collection projects.