Keri Watson

Keri Watson (PhD 2010, Florida State University) is Assistant Director of the School of Visual Arts and Design, Professor of Art History, affiliated faculty in the Texts and Technology Ph.D. program, and Director of the Florida Prison Education Project. She serves as a Board Member for the Association of Historians of American Art and is the author of Florida’s New Deal Parks and Post Office Murals (2024), and co-author (with Julia Listengarten) of Visual and Performing Arts Collaborations In Higher Education: Transdisciplinary Practices (2023), and co-author (with Keidra Daniels Navaroli) of This is America: Re-Viewing the Art of the United States (2023). She is the co-editor (with Timothy Hiles) of the Routledge Companion to Art and Disability (2022). Dr. Watson’s work has been recognized and supported by a Fulbright Fellowship and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Florida Humanities Council.