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Lyneise Williams earned her M.A. in Art History from Â鶹´«Ã½ in 1996. She has her Ph.D. in the History of Art from Yale University (2004). She is currently an Associate Professor of Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of which examines how Parisians’ visual iconography of Latin Americans in popular imagery inextricably links blackness to Latin American identity beginning in the mid-nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century. Her second book project examines the intersection of male beauty, masculinity, sports, and the black male body through the images and performances of Alfonso Brown in 1920s and 30s Paris. She has published articles on artist Pedro Figari, the depictions of Panamanian boxer Alfonso Teofilo Brown, and African art and hip-hop jewelry. Williams has also curated exhibitions on African art. Chief Justice of the State of North Carolina Supreme Court, Cheri Beasley, appointed Williams as a member of the Chief Justice Advisory Commission on Portraits. Williams is a member of the team selected from an international competition to design the North Carolina Freedom Monument Project in Raleigh, North Carolina.