Androula Michael Author & Editor

Anne-Claire Faucquez is Associate Professor of the History of the United States and American studies at the University of Paris 8. A specialist of slavery in the colonial era, she published De la Nouvelle-Néerlande à New York: la naissance d'une société esclavagiste 1624-1712 (Paris: Les Indes Savantes 2021), which received the Robert de la Vignette Prize in 2023, and co-edited Citoyenneté et liberté. Dans l'Empire britannique et les jeunes Etats-Unis XVIIe-XIXe siècle with Linda Garbaye (Presses Universitaires François-Rabelais, 2022). She also works on the writing of the history of slavery in 19th century history books and textbooks, and on the representation of slavery in museums, monuments and contemporary art. Androula Michael is a Professor of Contemporary Art History, Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV), Director of the Centre for Research in Arts and Aesthetics (CRAE, UR 4291) and Associate Researcher at the Centre for International Studies (CERI), Sciences Po Paris. She works at the intersection of art history, curatorial practice and decolonial approaches. Her research explores Picasso studies, with a particular focus on the intertwined critical reception of Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as well as Picasso's reception in Latin America, alongside research on contemporary art, museums, memory, and the enduring legacies of colonial slavery across Europe, Africa and the Americas.