Jonathan Michael Square
Parsons School of Design

Dr. Jonathan Michael Square is the assistant professor of Black visual culture at Parsons School of Design. He earned a PhD from New York University, an MA from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BA from Cornell University. Previously, he taught in the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature at Harvard University and was a fellow in the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He curated the exhibition Past Is Present: Black Artists Respond to the Complicated Histories of Slavery at the Herron School of Art and Design, which closed in January 2023, and cocurated Revolisyon Toupatou at Parsons School of Design alongside Siobhan Meï. Most recently, he had a show up titled Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, on view May 3, 2025–January 4, 2026. A proponent of the use of social media as a form of radical pedagogy, Dr. Square also leads the digital humanities project Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom.

Tuesday, January 27, 12:15 pm

38 West 86th Street, Lecture Hall
Tea, coffee, and snacks will be served starting at noon.
No registration required.