Jessica Womack earned her PhD from Princeton’s Department of Art and Archaeology in May 2024 and was awarded graduated certificates in Latin American Studies and African American Studies. Her dissertation, “Nation in the Making”: Art, Politics, and Statecraft in Jamaica after 1962, examines Jamaican art of the post-independence period; tracing the mid-to-late- twentieth-century negotiations, partnerships, and tensions between artists, arts institutions, and government agencies and officials, it probes the politics and practices of exhibition and display in Jamaica at the time and explores how these relationships were informed by— and also shaped—broader diplomatic, political, economic, and artistic concerns as Jamaica transitioned to statehood. Jessica earned her AB from Dartmouth College in 2014 and her MA from Princeton University in 2019. During her time at Princeton, she worked as a Scholars Institute Fellows Program graduate fellow and the project manager of digital humanities research project Art Hx: Visual and Medical Legacies of British Colonialism. She also was awarded a Graduate School Teaching Award and the George S. Heyer Graduate Fellowship in American/Modern Art History.