Baumer Conversations: Michelle Joan Wilkinson with Karen Lewis

Michelle Joan Wilkinson, PhD, is a curator at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., where she is expanding the museum’s collections in architecture and design. In her previous positions, Wilkinson curated several critically acclaimed exhibitions, including “A People's Geography: The Spaces of African American Life”; “For Whom It Stands: The Flag and the American People”; and “Material Girls: Contemporary Black Women Artists.” In 2012, Wilkinson was a fellow of the Center for Curatorial Leadership, for which she completed a short-term residency at the Design Museum in London. From 2019–2020, she was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Wilkinson's ongoing research project, “V is for Veranda,” examines architectural heritage in the Anglophone Caribbean.