Adrian Anagnost teaches the history of modern and contemporary art and space in the Americas, with particular attention to Brazil, the U.S., and Atlantic World networks at Tulane University School of Liberal Arts New Orleans. Publications have considered representations of vernacular architecture, informality, and race in Brazilian modernism (Brésil/s 2021); performance and urban intervention as a mode of site-based historical commemoration of a revolt by enslaved people in 19th-century Louisiana (RACAR 2021); pandemic-era DIY design (Design Issues 2022), and forms of evidence for the study of West African architecture in the period of early modern globalization. Anagnost’s book Spatial Orders, Social Forms: Art and the City in Modern Brazil was released by Yale University Press in 2022, and current research considers the militarized ecologies of the land- and waterscapes in Louisiana where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico.
Adrian Anagnost is the RTG Organizing Architectures’ Mercator Fellow in 2025.