About Abigail Celis

Abigail E. Celis is an assistant professor in Art History and Museum Studies at the Université de Montréal (Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang) and received her PhD in French and Francophone Studies from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Her research examines the afterlives of colonialism as witnessed through contemporary Francophone visual culture and museum practice, and on the decolonial imaginaries of diasporic artists. Her research practice includes curation, creative collaborations, and scholarly publications, and she has received several awards and grants for her research and writing.

Dr. Abigail E. Celis is an assistant professor of art history and museum studies at the Université de Montréal.
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NBN Episodes hosted by Abigail:

Bimbola Akinbola, "Transatlantic Disbelonging: Unruliness, Pleasure, and Play in Nigerian Diasporic Women's Art" (Duke UP, 2025)

April 6, 2026

Transatlantic Disbelonging

Bimbola Akinbola
Hosted by Abigail Celis

In Transatlantic Disbelonging: Unruliness, Pleasure and Play in Nigerian Diasporic Women's Art (Duke University Press, 2025), Bimbola Akinbola redirec…