With a background in art history and the interdisciplinary field of American Studies, Bill Anthes teaches and writes about modern and contemporary art in terms of multimedia practice and intercultural exchange. His published work has focused on Native North American art and on the history and theory of photography. His book on the Cheyenne-Arapaho contemporary artist Edgar Heap of Birds will be published by Duke University Press in 2015. He is currently participating in collaborative global projects on indigenous modernisms and on art history in settler colonial nations, and is developing a new project on contemporary art and the non-human.