Dr. Jason R. Young, “Hear Me Now: Art, History and the Politics of Redress.”

Sat., February 28, 2026, at 1:00 P.M. EST

Jason R. Young is a Professor of History at the University of Michigan specializing in the history of art, religion, and folk culture. He recently served as co-Curator of Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, a touring exhibition that opened at the Metropolitan Museum in 2022 before traveling to the MFA Boston, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, and the High Museum. His first book Rituals of Resistance: African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry Region of Georgia and South Carolina in the Era of Slavery, was an exploration into the religious and ritual practices that linked West-Central Africa with with the Lowcountry region of Georgia and South Carolina. Young has published articles in The Journal of African American History, The Journal of Africana Religions, and The Journal of Southern Religion, among others. His latest book project, The Mask of Memory: White Racial Fantasy after the Civil War will be published in 2026 by the University of North Carolina Press.

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