#  After Harlem Hospital: Modern Medicine and African American Art 

 



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####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **March 31, 2026** 

 06:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Barker Center, Room 133**  



 

 



 

## [CRITICAL HEALTH HUMANITIES](/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.



 

 



 

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- [ Critical Health Humanities ](/seminars/critical-health-humanities)
 
 

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