Biography
Tiffany Sims is a M.A. student in Africana Studies and Art History and inaugural member of the Crossroad Cohort. Her research draws upon her dance background as a way to analyze the historical narratives of the Black body in the African diaspora, as well as a way to center embodiment in histories of modern and contemporary art. Through the lens of Black feminist theory, she considers questions that expand upon gesture, movement and memory, race, and racism in order to call attention to artists and performers whose work on the body emphasizes the political dimensions of Blackness.
Before coming to Tulane, Tiffany earned an AA from Broward College and a BA in Art History from University of Florida, Gainesville. She was a Hot Metal Bridge Post Baccalaureate Fellow in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. Most recently, Tiffany served as the Margaret Powell Curatorial Fellow at Carnegie Museum of Art from 2022–2024.