Bridget R. Cooks is an American scholar, writer, curator, and academic.
Cooks holds a PhD in Visual and Cultural Studies from the Department of Art History at University of Rochester.
[1] Cooks' research interests center on African American art history, Black visual culture, museology, and film criticism, and employ a feminist, postcolonial, and critical race theory lens.
[3] Cooks has published more than forty articles, appearing in publications such as Afterall, Afterimage, American Studies, Aperture, American Quarterly, Cultural Critique, and Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art.
[5] Other book projects include co-editing the volume Historical Perspective of African Americans and a monograph on the work of Richard Mayhew, as well as forthcoming books on mannequins in museums, popular art of the civil rights movement, and a study of Norman Rockwell's civil rights era paintings.