Laura Chrisman is Nancy K. Ketcham Endowed Chair of English at the University of Washington. She has published widely on South African, British imperial, and Black transnational literary-cultural studies. As Director of the Robert Chrisman Foundation, she publishes The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research. She is currently working on three book projects: Changing Tides: transnational blackness across the US and South Africa, 1870-1930; The Black Scholar Journal: a visual and documentary history; Art from the Periphery: the Political Aesthetic of Byron Randall.