Profile

Nicole-Ann Lobo is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art & Archaeology and the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities (IHUM). Her research constellates twentieth-century painters, jazz musicians, textile artists, and writers who created decolonial networks and engaged in worldbuilding between Europe, western India, and East Africa, especially Goa and Mozambique. Nicole-Ann currently works for the London-based journal Third Text, and her writings have been published in Texte zur Kunst, October, Third Text Online, Dissent Magazine, Commonweal, and elsewhere. She has presented her research in a variety of international contexts and  co-facilitated several collaborative learning spaces within Princeton including the Third Cinema Film Group and the Palestine Arts Reading Group 

Previously, Nicole-Ann received an MPhil from the University of Cambridge's program in Modern South Asian Studies, where she was funded by the Euretta J. Kellett fellowship and won the C.A. Bayly Prize for Best Dissertation in South Asian History for her dissertation on F.N. Souza. She worked as the John Garvey Writing Fellow at Commonweal Magazine in New York City after graduating with her B.A. in Art History from Columbia University.