Krista Thompson is an art historian.
She serves as Weinberg College Board of Visitors Professor and Professor in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University.
[1] Her work focuses on modern and contemporary art and visual culture of the Africa diaspora, particularly the medium of photography.
[1] Thompson earned her PhD in 2002 from Emory University.
[1] In 2009 Thompson won the Driskell Prize from the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, recognizing "an original and important contribution to the field of African American art or art history.