Margo Machida
Associate Professor of Art History & Asian American Studies, Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo
margo.machida@uconn.edu

Margo Machida is a scholar, curator, and educator specializing in contemporary Asian American visual art. She holds a joint appointment as Assistant Professor in Art History and Asian American Studies. Her interdisciplinary research draws on social art history, oral history, and ethnic studies in examining the meanings and functions of art as a social object. She is presently completing a manuscript, The Poetics of Positionality: Art, Identity, and Communities of Imagination in Asian America for publication by Duke University Press.