Krista Thompson (art historian)
Krista Thompson is an art historian. She serves as Weinberg College Board of Visitors Professor and Professor in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University. Her work focuses on modern and contemporary art and visual culture of the Africa diaspora, particularly the medium of photography. Thompson earned her PhD in 2002 from Emory University. In 2009 Thompson won the Driskell Prize from the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, recognizing "an original and important contribution to the field of African American art or art history."