Paul KaplanPaul Kaplan is Professor of Art History at Purchase College, SUNY. He is the author of Contraband Guides: Race, Transatlantic Culture, and the Arts in the Civil War Era, also published by Penn State University Press and TheRise of the Black Magus in Western Art, and a contributor to The Image of the Black in Western Art. He served as Project Scholar for Fred Wilson’s Speak of Me as I Am, an installation in the American Pavilion of the 2003 Venice Biennale. Read More Read Less