“ ‘The Walls are So Silent’: Spaces of Confinement and Gendered meanings of Incarceration in South African Commemorative Art,” in Troubling Histories: Public Art and Prejudice. Special issue of De Arte,
53 (2) (Fall, 2018)

“The Pain of Memory and the Violence of Erasure: Real and Figural Displays of Female Authority in the Public Sphere,” in Kim Miller and Brenda Schmahmann, Bronze Warriors and Plastic Presidents: Public
Art in South Africa, 1999 – 2015, (Indiana University Press, 2017).

Editor, with Brenda Schmahmann, Stone Elephants and Plastic Presidents: Public Art in South Africa, 1999 – 2014 (Indiana University Press (2017)

“Inter-weaving Art and Activism: Sandra Kriel’s Heroic Women,” in Joanna Grabski and Carol Magee, eds., Bodies of  Knowledge: Interviews, African Art, and Scholarly Narratives (Indiana University Press, 2013).

Editor (with Brenda Schmahmann). Gender and South African Art.  Special issue of African Arts, 45.4 (Winter, 2012).

“Selective Silencing and the Shaping of Memory: The Case of the Monument to the Women of South Africa.”  South African Historical Journal, 63:2 (Summer, 2011).

“’Fire, Water, Forests, Swarms’ Penny Siopis discusses Who’s Afraid of the Crowd? With Kim Miller,” In Penny Siopis: Who’s Afraid of the Crowd? (Cape Town: Michael Stevenson Gallery, 2011).

Entries on Sue Williamson, Akiga Sai, Eleanor Nwadinobi, Delphine Zanga Tsogo, Nkoyo Toyo,Twins Seven Seven, Dorothy Nyembe, Josie Palmer, Madie Hall Xuma, Pumla Kisosonkole, in Henry Louis Gates, ed., Dictionary of African Biography (Cambridge: Oxford University Press, 2011).

“Moms with Guns: Women’s Political Agency in Anti-Apartheid Visual Culture.” African Arts. Volume 42, no. 2. Summer 2009.

“Iconographies of Gender, Poverty, and Power in Contemporary South African Visual Culture.” in National Women’s Studies Association Journal, special issue on feminist activist art. Spring 2007.

This article was anthologized as “Iconographies of Gender, Poverty, and Power in Contemporary South African Visual Culture.” The Visible Woman: Female Representation in Performance and Visual Culture: A NWSA Journal Anthology. Olga Mesropova and Stacey Weber-Feve, co-editors. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

“Women’s Cooperatives and Self-Help Projects.” Berg Encyclopedia of Dress and Fashion,edited by Joanne Eicher. Essay co-authored with Brenda Schmahmann, 2010.

Special edition of African Arts entitled Trauma and Representation: Imaging Violence in Africa and the African Diaspora. Co-edited with Shannen Hill. Autumn, 2005, vol. 38 no. 3.

“First Word: Trauma and Representation in Africa.” (co-authored with Shannen Hill). In African Arts. Volume 38, no. 3. 2005.

“Trauma, Testimony, and Truth: Contemporary South African Artists Speak.” In African Arts. Volume 38, no. 3. 2005.

“T shirts, Testimony and Truth: Memories of Violence Made Visible.” in Textile: the Journal of Cloth and Culture. Volume 3, Issue 3. 2005.

“The Philani Printing Project: Women’s Art and Activism in Crossroads, South Africa.” in Feminist Studies (vol. 29, no. 3) Fall, 2003.

“Crossdressing at the Crossroads: Mimicry and Ambivalence in Yoruba Masked Performance.” in Susan Fillen-Yeh, ed. Dandies: Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture New York:New York University Press.
2001.

Recent Conference Presentations

2018 Presenter, “ ‘First and Foremost, We Need to Feel’: Women as Breakers of Silence at the Johannesburg Women’s Jail,” Honoring Ancestors in Africa: Arts and Actions, African Studies Program Symposium, Madison (April).

2017 Convener, Troubling Histories: Public Art and Prejudice Conference, Presenter, “‘The walls are so silent’: spaces of confinement and gendered meanings of incarceration in South African commemorative art,” University of Johannesburg (November)

2017 Presenter, “Crafting a political hero: art and feminist intent in the work of Sandra Kriel,” 17th Triennial Symposium on African Art, Ghana (August) paper delivered in absentia

2017 Presenter and Discussant, “Information Fluency in the Disciplines Workshop in the Arts: History, Theory, and Criticism,” Association of College andResearch Libraries and the Council on Library and Information Resources Workshop, New Orleans (April)

2015 Invited Speaker, “Apartheid and After: Gendered Images of South Africa’s Struggle,” Department of Art History, Fifth Annual Speaker Series on War/Art/Peace, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota (April). Link to poster (pdf).

2014 Presenter and co-chair: “Doing Feminist Activism and Research Digitally,” National Women’s Studies Association Conference, San Juan Puerto Rico, (November)

2014 “The Pain of Seeing vs. the Anguish of Oblivion: Representing Suffering in South Africa’s Public Sphere,” Walter Rodney African Studies Seminar Series, Boston University (April)

2014 “Depictions of Trauma and the ‘Innocent Eye’: Some Tensions Surrounding the Commemoration of Pain and Suffering from the Apartheid Past,” 16th Triennial Symposium on African Art, Brooklyn (March)

2014 “The Museum, the Archive, and ‘the Space Outside’: Locating Women’s Political Voice in South Africa’s Memorial Landscape,” Digital Humanities Initiative Speaker & Workshop Series on Women, Feminism, and Digital Humanities, Hamilton College (April). Link to poster (pdf)

2014 “The Place that Used to be Hell has been Changed to Heaven”: Women’s Incarceration, Agency, and the Reinvention of Space in a South African Prison,” Institute of African Studies Research Seminar, Emory (February)

2013 “Protest, Pain, and Place: Locating South African Women’s Activism Against Apartheid,” Department of Women and Gender Studies, The College of New Jersey (March)

2012 “Silences/Violations/Interventions: Mapping the Cultural Landscape of Women’s Political Lives,” Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, The Ohio State University (February)

2011  “Memory, Mourning, and Militancy: New Directions in Researching and Writing Women’s Lives,” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Amherst, (June)

2011  “Feminist(s) Approach(es): Feminism and the Shaping of African Art” 15^th Triennial Symposium on African Art, UCLA, (March)

2010 “Transforming the Core: Integrating Transnational, Activist, and Food Feminisms to the Women’s Studies Major,” Program Administration and Development Pre-Conference, National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Denver (November).

2010 “Disappearing Acts: The Visual Geographies of South African Women’s Activism Against Apartheid,” National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Denver (November)

2010 “Regarding Heroes: The Visual Geographies of South African Women’s Activism Against Apartheid” Remembering Africa and its Diasporas, Ottawa (October)

2010 “Places of Protest, Places of Pain, and the Politics of Commemoration,” North Eastern Workshop on Southern Africa Burlington, Vermont (April)

2010 “Singing, Sewing, Sitting: Commemorating Women’s Political Roles After Apartheid,” Third Biennial Symposium of the Department of Art History, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia (February)

2009 “Teaching and Researching the Visual Culture of Women and War: Political Engagement in African Societies,” American Association of Colleges and Universities Conference on Integrative Learning: Addressing the Complexities, Atlanta, GA (October)