[1] Her research and writing explore race in contemporary art, film, and new media; the social production of space; and politics and cultural memory in Black America.

[2] Also at Columbia, she is the Director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS)[3] and, alongside Mario Gooden, is the co-director of Global Africa Lab (GAL).

Alongside Bryony Roberts, Wilson explored the legacies of organized forms of marching in African American communities.

[5] It is the first exhibition at MoMA to feature a collective body of work by 10 African-American architects, artists and designers [6] trying to “reclaim the larger civic promise of architecture,” as stated by the New York Times.

[7] Wilson has written books including Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present (Co-Editor with Irene Cheng and Charles L. Davis II), forthcoming from University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020 (ISBN 978-0-822-94605-2), Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, 2016 (ISBN 978-1-588-34569-1), and Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums, University of California Press, 2012 (ISBN 978-0-520-26842-5).