Amanda Cachia is an art historian, curator and critic whose research focuses on modern and contemporary art, disability studies, performance, choreography, politics, activist art, and feminist and queer theory. She was a Yale University Sarah Pettit Doctoral Fellow and was the recipient of the Irving K. Zola Award for Emerging Scholars in Disability Studies. She was director of the Dunlop Art Gallery in Saskatchewan, Canada, and has curated 40 exhibitions.

Cachia’s appearance is made possible by the support of the Departments of Art and Art History, Cinema and Digital Media and Design as well as the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.