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Alice Ming Wai Jim is Professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Ethnocultural Art Histories in Montreal, Canada. She is co-editor of the journal Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (Brill with Concordia and NYU). Jim is also Adjunct Professor in Graduate Studies at OCAD University, Toronto (2021-2024). An art historian and curator, her research on diasporic art in Canada and contemporary Asian art has generated new dialogues within and between ethnocultural and global art histories, critical race theory, media arts, and curatorial studies. She co-convened the NYU Global Asia/Pacific Art Exchange, GAX 2019 Tiohtiá:ke (Montreal): Asian Indigenous Relations in Contemporary Art. Jim is a SSHRC co-investigator and FQRSC PI for the Trans-Atlantic Platform project, Worlding Public Cultures, and a collaborator on the SSHRC Partnership Grant project Thinking Through the Museum. Her current SSHRC-funded research project examines Afrofuturism and Black Lives Matter in the Canadian art scene. Jim is a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada.