Bianca Morán is an art historian, curator, educator, and writer. She specializes in 19th and 20th-century art and visual culture of the hemispheric Americas as well as histories of the Black Atlantic. Her current research focuses on race, nation formation, and modernity in Mexican art of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. She is an adjunct lecturer of art history at the City College of New York and Lehman College. Her research interests broadly include race and colonialism, foodways, diaspora, capitalism and slavery studies and the intersections of art and history in the Atlantic world. Bianca holds an M.A. in Curatorial Practice and the Public Sphere from the University of Southern California, an M.Ed. from UCLA, and a B.A. in Political Science with a minor in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley. She also completed a culinary arts program at Le Cordon Bleu. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Art History at The Graduate Center at The City University of New York. Bianca was born in Los Angeles and raised between the Bay Area and LA. She is also a single mother raising her daughter, Paloma.