Abigail Lapin Dardashti’s research examines modern and contemporary Latin American, Latina/o/x, as well as African and Jewish diasporic art with a focus on international exchange, migration, racial and ethnic formation, and activism. Broadly, her work unpacks the impact of migration and travel on diasporic artistic productions in the Americas during the 20th and 21st centuries. Her first book project, Transatlantic Migrations: Politics and the Rise of Afro-Brazilian Art, examines Afro-Brazilian art and international exchange during the period of the military dictatorship, 1960s–80s, focusing on state-sponsored exhibitions as well as activist art in the U.S., Nigeria, Senegal, and Brazil. Her second book project, Experimentation as Refuge: The Holocaust in Postwar Brazilian Art, looks at how Holocaust memory permeated Brazilian experimental art and contributed to defining the country’s nationalism from 1945 to 1980. She is assistant professor of art history and visual studies at the University of California, Irvine.