Professor Rose Salseda is an assistant professor in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University. Specializing in the fields of African American and U.S. Latinx art, and with a research background in the art of the African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean, Professor Salseda’s research explores the politics of race, identity, and representation. Her first book, Unrest: An Art History of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, foregrounds uprising as a response to the injustices of state violence. Closely reading artworks made by three generations of artists, Professor Salseda reveals how artists have challenged racially polarizing media portrayals and accounts of the 1992 uprising and underscored the complex intergenerational, cross-racial, and immigrant experiences of anti-Black racism and xenophobia in the United States and beyond.

In addition to her scholarly work on uprisings, Professor Salseda has interests in the intersections of visual art with underground and popular music as well as the strategies of appropriation used by Black and Brown American artists to critique discrimination and inequities in society.

Rose Salseda, “Creating Equity in Academia for Latinx Art History,” Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture (2019) 1 (30): 87-91

Joy Leighton and Natalie Jabbar, “New faculty draw on diverse subjects and backgrounds to open eyes, challenge students,” Stanford News, February 28, 2019

Undergraduate Courses:

African American Art

U.S. Latinx Art

Riot: Visualizing Civil Unrest in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Graduate Courses:

Riot: Visualizing Civil Unrest in the 20th and 21st Centuries

The Art of Punk: Sound, Aesthetics, and Performance

Complicating Minimal Art