Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw is Associate Professor of American Art.  She received her PhD in art history from Stanford University in 2000. She was an assistant professor at Harvard University for five years before joining the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania in 2005. During that time she was also a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard and a received a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Ford Foundation.  Her book, Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker, was published by Duke University Press in the winter of 2004.  Her current project, a museum exhibition titled “Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century,” is being organized in conjunction with the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusetts. It will open at the Addison in January of 2006 before traveling to the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington and the Long Beach Art Museum in California. Professor Shaw is interested in studying issues of race, gender, and class in American art and architecture.