Jamal Batts, PhD is a scholar, writer, and curator. His work considers the relation between black contemporary art, sexuality, and risk. He is currently a Stanford University IDEAL Provostial Fellow in the Department of Art and Art History. Beginning in the fall, he will be an Assistant Professor at Swarthmore College in the Black Studies Program. As Curator-in-Residence in the Graduate Fine Arts Department at the University of Pennsylvania, he curated the 2022 MFA thesis exhibition, Imperative of Struggle. His writing appears in the catalogue for The New Museum’s exhibition Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon, Open Space, ASAP/J, New Life Quarterly, and SFMOMA’s website in conjunction with their Modern Cinema series. He is a member of the curatorial collective The Black Aesthetic with Leila Weefur, Ra Malika Imhotep, and Nan Collymore.