Jane Chin Davidson is an art historian whose research in contemporary art focuses on diasporic sites for global culture and expressions of Chinese gender and identity (she was born in Hong Kong and emigrated with her family to the United States). She is a researcher of performance, exhibition theory and practice including decolonizing processes for global exhibitions and curatorial subjects of transnationalism, feminism, and performance art – eco-art, eco-feminism. She is currently Professor of Art History/Global Cultures at California State University, San Bernardino where she serves as Fellow of DEI Faculty Development. Her recent publications include the forthcoming Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023) co-edited with Amelia Jones, her monograph Staging Art and Chineseness: Politics of Trans/Nationalism and Global Expositions (University of Manchester Press, 2020), her volume Global and World Art in the Practice of the University Museum (Routledge, 2017), and her co-edited special journal issue “Okwui Enwezor: the Art of Curating” for NKA: Journal of African Art (2021). Her speaking engagements include her talk in Venice for the European Cultural Center for the Personal Structures exhibition at the 2022 Venice Biennale. Chin Davidson has received numerous fellowships, including research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Loughborough University, an ESRC postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Manchester, and a graduate fellowship at the Getty Research Institute. She has served on three editorial boards, including for CAA’s The Art Journal. Her work in DEI encompasses institutional advocacy and activism.