Sophie Sanders (PhD, 2013) is a lecturer at Tyler School of Art and Architecture. She has exhibited her works in venues across America, and has worked as a museum educator at The Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, South Street Seaport Museum, and the Museum for African Art in New York. She has published "A Review of Contemporary African Art since 1980" (African Arts, 2010), and for the Afro-American National Biography Project, the "Biography of John Biggers Parnassus" (2008).  She has lectured on the artist Nicolas Cave at the African Studies Association, co-curatored the exhibit "From Taboo to Icon: Africanist Turnabout" for the Crane Arts Gallery, and has exhibited at the Fabric Workshop and Museum. She currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, Drexel University, and St. Joseph's University.