Rhae Lynn Barnes

Rhae Lynn Barnes

RHAE LYNN BARNES is an assistant professor of American cultural history at Princeton University and the Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. She is public speaker, writer, editor, documentarian, onscreen commenter, and coeditor of three books, including American Contact: Objects of Intercultural Encounters and the Boundaries of Book History. She is the author of the forthcoming books, Darkology: When the American Dream Wore Blackface and Tragic Kingdom.