Christian Ayne Crouch
talks to Media Hour about 
Luchino Visconti

Christian Ayne Crouch is dean of graduate studies, director of the Center for Indigenous Studies, and professor of History and American and Indigenous Studies at Bard College. An award-winning historian, Crouch's scholarship, research and teaching take interdisciplinary approaches to early modern Atlantic and Indigenous histories and material culture and have been supported with numerous grants, including Harvard's Hutchins Center, the American Philosophical Society, the Yale Center for British Art, and the Mellon Foundation. Her current book project, Queen Victoria’s Captives: A Story of Ambition, Empire, and a Stolen Ethiopian Prince examines the human and material culture consequences of the 1868 British Maqdala Expedition. She has also worked as a curatorial advisor for projects at the Brooklyn Museum, the Hessel Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and, most recently, Jeffrey Gibson: the space in which to place me at the 60th Venice Biennale.