Chandra Nirmala Frank

Chandra Frank is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati. She is the 2024-2027 Taft Professor of Public Humanities and will be working on collaborative and multi-modal methodologies related to art, ecology and public histories. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on feminist and queer of color movement work, possibilities of dissent, and the ways in which race and the environment work as terrains of power. She is completing her first monograph in progress, Tidal Politics: Feminist Queer Diaspora & Refusal in the Netherlands, which charts the creative and strategic interruption of feminist queer movement work in the 1980s alongside the literal and figurative sinking landscape and racial climate of the Netherlands. Over the last decade, she has been active as an independent curator working across continents and with various institutions such as the Bonnefanten Museum, Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning, and District Six Museum. 


 
 

Ph.D : Goldsmiths University London, 2020 (Media, Communications and Cultural Studies)

M.Phil: University of Cape Town Cape Town , 2012 (African Studies)

LL.M: Leiden University Leiden, 2011 (Public International Law)

LL.B: University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, 2009 (Law)