Rachel M. Tang

Rachel M. Tang is an art historian writing about artists, their ecological networks, and the intertwined histories of race and American education. She is currently a PhD candidate in the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. Her writing has appeared in Triple Canopy, Art Journal, and ArtReview.

Her research has been supported by the Charles Warren Center for American History, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the National Museum of the American Indian, where she was the inaugural Betsy James Wyeth Fellow in Native American Art.

Rachel comes from a large, blended family of mixed Chinese, Euro-American, Diné, and Tsitsistas descents, and was raised between Gallup, New Mexico, and Fort Defiance, Arizona, in Diné traditions.