Courtney R. Baker is Associate Professor of English at University of California, Riverside. Previously, she was co-founder and inaugural chair of Black Studies at Occidental College. She earned her B.A. cum laude from Harvard University and her Ph.D. from Duke University. She is author of the book, Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death (2015), which explores the long history of African American visual activism. Her writing has appeared in the exhibition catalog of A Site of Struggle: American Art Responds to Antiblack Violence (2021) and the award-winning volume, Black Cultural Production after Civil Rights (2019).