Ji Yoon

Ji Yoon studies the visual and material culture of the 18th and 19th-century Anglophone, Francophone, and Dutch Caribbean, with a particular interest in the art histories of marronage. In her research, she interrogates European representations of Black resistance which existed beyond colonial regimes of sight, questioning notions of fugitivity, (in)visibility, surveillance, and the ‘counter-archives’ of Black self-representation.

She received her BA in History and Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and her MA from The Courtauld Institute of Art. At The Courtauld, her dissertation on eighteenth-century British prints of the Jamaican Maroons was awarded the 2021 Director’s Prize for an Outstanding Dissertation.

Department: History of Art