Stephanie Sparling Williams is a doctoral candidate in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California (USC). She has an MA in American Studies and Ethnicity and a Certificate in Visual Studies from USC, and a dual BA in Fine Art and Ethnic Studies from Colorado University, Boulder. Her dissertation is titled “Speaking Out of Turn: Race, Gender, and Direct Address in American Art Museums.” As a scholar/artist, Stephanie is drawn to work in the visual semiotics of people of color, especially women. She has recently presented her work at the annual Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at DePaul University, the Alien Bodies: Race, Space, and Sex in the African Diaspora Conference at Emory University, the University of Virginia’s African American History Conference, and San Jose State University’s annual Art History Association Symposium: Art and Art’s Publics. Stephanie has been a recipient of a Dornsife Doctoral Fellowship (USC), a Diversity in Graduate Education Fellowship (EDGE/APD, USC), a Visual Studies Institute Graduate Summer Research Fellowship, and an Imagining America Publicly Active Graduate Education Fellowship.