Lucas (Luke) Williams
Cohort
2018

Luke Williams is a scholar, artist, organizer, and critic of twentieth and twenty-first century Black performance and visual cultures. His work, which spans embodiment, portraiture, Afrofuturism, racial capitalism, and the aesthetics of the Black radical imagination, focuses on Black Diasporic art in the Americas and broader Atlantic world. Luke is a PhD candidate in Modern Thought & Literature at Stanford University. He most recently held fellowships for the Committee of Black Performing Arts at Stanford and the Jefferson Scholarship at the University of Virginia.
Find more information on Luke’s scholarship, artistic work, and educational organizing at LukeWilliamsPhD.com
Contact
Email
lucasw [at] stanford.edu
Research Interests
Field of Interest
Dance and Performance Studies; Black Studies; Social and Political Theory, African-American History, Art History, African-American Literature