Isabella Robbins

Isabella Robbins

PhD Candidate

History of Art and American Studies at Yale

Isabella Shey Robbins a PhD candidate and Diné scholar in the History of Art and American Studies departments at Yale University. She studies global contemporary Indigenous art, with a focus on artists within settler states of the United States, Canada, and Australia. Guiding her research are questions of the limits of sovereignty and definitions of Indigeneity, the politics of refusal and opacity, and the extensions, intersections and overlappings of migration, diaspora and global Indigeneity. She assisted in organizing the exhibition Fazal Sheikh: Exposures, currently on view at the Yale University Art Gallery.