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Accepted; forthcoming. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff687cc85e8047c01a5e756/1771283472288-2WKGKBJ1ALV1O4IWE0UG/Mephokee%2BFig%2B3_1.jpg Research “Scientism and Second-Empire Sculpture: Personifying and Contending with Blackness in Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s Fontaine des Quatre-Parties-du-Monde,” in Controversial Monuments: Personifying the Continents between the 18th and 21st Centuries, edited by Louise Arizzoli, Maryanne Cline Horowitz, and Marion Romberg (Brill, 2026) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff687cc85e8047c01a5e756/1771283747565-IXHRS1AC93DDN6HCP3WZ/Mephokee%2BFig%2B1_1.jpg Research “At the Center of the Globe: Empiricism and Empire in Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's Fontaine des Quatre-Parties-du-monde,” Athanor 38 (2022). https://www.hoyonmephokee.com/public-scholarship-and-presentations daily 0.75 2026-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff687cc85e8047c01a5e756/1771286153677-OSQAFDGKJKMTFIHQSH8Z/frenchcolonialempire.png.jpg Public Scholarship & Presentations Panel Chair: 2026 Annual SECAC Conference (2026). “Weaving and Disentangling Imperial Identity: Art and Expansionist Violence in the Long Nineteenth Century,” co-chaired with Marie-Agathe Simonetti. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff687cc85e8047c01a5e756/1774463949371-Q9LSOTDSQUCQ7BBN3CMN/Nouveau_Cirque_Boule_de_Siam_%255B...%255DPal_%25281855-1942%2529_btv1b9014331d_1.jpg Public Scholarship & Presentations Public Scholarship: Human Ties: Stories in the Humanities, the Blog of the Washington University Center for the Humanities (2026). "Performing Otherness in France Métropolitaine: The Curious Case of the Boule de Siam (1894)" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff687cc85e8047c01a5e756/cf78232b-e9c1-4700-bd38-ed3e013ed675/Ambassades_du_Siam_en_France_Fontainebleau_1861.jpg Public Scholarship & Presentations Conference Paper: 2025 Annual SECAC Conference (2025). “Through the Looking Glass: Photographing and Circulating the Siamese Body in the Second French Empire,” in “Open Session: Nineteenth-Century Art: Art and Visual Culture in and Around France, Session II,” chaired by Emily Everhart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff687cc85e8047c01a5e756/772c6e68-c124-4080-a22c-ef892f38e952/Le_trottoir_roulant%2C_Exposition_Universelle_1900.jpg Public Scholarship & Presentations Conference Paper: 2025 Annual Cultural Studies Association Conference (2025). “Fast and Furious: Mobile Aesthetics and Modernity at the 1900 Paris Exposition and Beyond,” in “Playful Worlds, Serious Futures: Games and Leisure Technologies,” chaired by Collin Hawley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff687cc85e8047c01a5e756/8aa6fb79-f098-475d-aa9c-db72478aaae2/1536499a-11ea-4ffd-a32d-1e04633824c9_570.Jpeg.webp Public Scholarship & Presentations Conference Paper: Workshopping Future Directions in Impressionism, The Impressionist Futures Group (2024). “Modern Thai Painting and the Problem of ‘Impressionism’” presented virtually in “Global Histories of Impressionism,” chaired by Frances Fowle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff687cc85e8047c01a5e756/1771285516086-LUUT5NQMKIE9U95MXGTJ/129216106211622248_683ba95f-b5ff-405b-aa37-88559cca7fa7_112210_570.jpg Public Scholarship & Presentations Conference Paper: 112th Annual College Art Association Conference (2024). “Co-Conspirators: Impressionism, Tourism, and the Invention of Modern Thailand” in “Impressionism and the Longue Durée of Empire,” chaired by Alexis Clark and Simon Kelly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff687cc85e8047c01a5e756/22606d73-7675-45aa-bef4-8c6fa4c6f603/201911dig_o2.jpg Public Scholarship & Presentations Gallery Talk: Saint Louis Art Museum (2023). “Joaquín Sorolla and an Impressionism Beyond France." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff687cc85e8047c01a5e756/36868122-48b4-4a12-b424-83df45a1dfa8/271974dig_o2.jpg Public Scholarship & Presentations Conference Paper: 8th Annual Symposium, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2022). “Into the Sensorium: (Im)Materiality and Coloniality in Paul Gauguin’s Paintings on Burlap.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff687cc85e8047c01a5e756/1771284681874-QRYZKO4G5RP5MTAJK3O5/67_1989_dig_01_o2.jpg Public Scholarship & Presentations Gallery Talk: Saint Louis Art Museum (2022). “Frank Dillon’s The Colossal Pair, Thebes (1856)" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff687cc85e8047c01a5e756/1771283747565-IXHRS1AC93DDN6HCP3WZ/Mephokee%2BFig%2B1_1.jpg Public Scholarship & Presentations Conference Paper: 42nd Annual Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Conference (2021). “At the Center of the Globe: Cartography, Botany, and Empire in J.B. Carpeaux’s Fontaine des Quatre-Parties-du-Monde,” in "Controversial Monuments: Continent Personifications,” chaired by Maryanne Cline Horowitz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff687cc85e8047c01a5e756/1771283747565-IXHRS1AC93DDN6HCP3WZ/Mephokee%2BFig%2B1_1.jpg Public Scholarship & Presentations Conference Paper: The 37th Annual Art History Graduate Symposium at Florida State University (2021). “J.B. Carpeaux’s Fontaine des Quatre-Parties-du-Monde (1867-74): A Monument for the French Colonial Empire.” https://www.hoyonmephokee.com/teaching daily 0.75 2026-02-17