About

Myron Beasley, Ph.D., serves as an Associate Professor of American Studies and is a member of the committee for Gender and Sexuality Studies at Bates College. His ethnographic research examines the intersection of cultural politics, material culture, and social change. Dr. Beasley has received fellowships and grants from distinguished organizations such as the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has been awarded the Ruth Landes Award from the Reed Foundation. Most recently, he was honored with the Constance H. Carlson Public Humanities Prize. He is the author of the publication “Performance, Art and Politics in the African Diaspora: Necropolitics and the Black Body,” published by Routledge Press.

His ethnographic writings on Africana Cultural Politics, Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and cultural engagement have been published in numerous esteemed academic journals, including Text and Performance Quarterly, Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, The Journal of Poverty, Museum & Social Issues, The Journal of Curatorial Studies, Food and Foodways, and Performance Research. His film-installation “rirtual/feast,” which is based on his ethnography of Brazil, has been showcased at the UMMI and Paris film festivals. Furthermore, his recent curatorial endeavors include ACCRA!  Re.Past.Malage, PRINT PROTEST POWER, Ghetto Biennale in Haiti, CAAR Paris 7 in France, and Dak’art in Senegal.

Beasley, M. (2025) Special Issue Editor.  Corporeal Migration and Performance. Liminalities: The Journal of Performance Studies.21.3.

Beasley, M. (2025) Migratuse Ataraxia: Race, the Antebellum South and Critical Fabulation.

Liminalities: The Journal of Performance Studies. 21.3.

Beasley, M. (2024) “Incorrigible disturber of the peace!/Ink and Equity!” In Amos Paul Kennedy,   

 Jr.: Citizen Printer. Letterform Archive Books.

Beasley, M. (2022) Loving Repeating: Performance, Intimacy and Melancholia in the works of Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger. Catalogue. Hyde Park Art Center: Chicago