After Harlem Hospital: Modern Medicine and African American Art

CRITICAL HEALTH HUMANITIES

SPEAKER: Tanya Sheehan, Colby College

Tanya Sheehan is Ellerton M. and Edith K. Jetté Professor of Art; Director of Academic and Scholarly Engagement at the Colby Museum’s Lunder Institute for American Art (2025-); Chair of the Humanities Division at Colby College (2023-24, 2025-26); and Chair of the Science, Technology, and Society Department (2024-27). Since 2021, she has served as Principal Investigator of Colby’s first Public Humanistic Inquiry Lab, a grant-funded faculty research initiative devoted to critical perspectives on the intersection of medicine and race. She previously held a variety of leadership positions at the college, including Director of Research at the Lunder Institute for American Art (2018-21), Director of the American Studies Program (2019-20), and Chair of the Department of Art (2015-18). As Special Advisor to the Provost (2016-18) she led the development of a campus-wide arts and innovation initiative and co-authored Colby’s environmental humanities grant funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2017-20.