Eddie Chambers
Professor — Ph.D., History of Art, 1998, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Professor of Art & Art History

Contact
- E-mail: eddiechambers@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: (512) 471-7554
- Office: Department of Art and Art History - ART 3.324
- Campus Mail Code: D1300
Interests
African Diaspora, African American, and contemporary African art and visual culture
Biography
Before joining the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin in 2010, Eddie Chambers was, on a number of occasions, a Visiting Professor at Emory University. He earned his Ph.D. in History of Art from Goldsmiths College, University of London, in 1998, awarded for his thesis ‘Black Visual Arts Activity in England Between 1981 – 1986: Press and Public Responses’.
A collection of his articles and essays, titled Run Through the Jungle was published by the Institute of International Visual Arts (London) as part of its ‘Annotations’ series in 1999. His book Things Done Change: The Cultural Politics of Recent Black Artists in Britain was published by Rodopi Editions, Amsterdam and New York, 2012, as part of its Cross/Cultures – Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English series. His next book was Black Artists in British Art: A History Since the 1950s, published by I. B. Tauris, London and New York, 2014, followed by Roots & Culture: Cultural Politics in the Making of Black Britain, published by I. B. Tauris, London and New York, 2017. He was the editor of the Routledge Companion to African American Art History, 2019 and his forthcoming book is World is Africa: Writings on Diaspora Art, to be published by Bloomsbury in early 2021.
He is the Editor-in-Chief designate of Art Journal, published by the College Art Association. His website is eddiechambers.com