Elizabeth Harney’s research focuses on African modernisms and contemporary practices, with a particular interest on the intersection of decolonization, nationalism and the aesthetics of primitivism. Currently she has two book projects in progress. Retromodernism, Africa and the Time of the Contemporary investigates how processes of archiving, narration, and memory of African modernisms impact the historical and discursive formation of global ‘contemporary art’ and question of ‘difference’ within it. Prismatic Scatterings: Global Modernists in Postwar Europe looks at the networks of exchange created or followed by key African and diasporic artists at work in Europe in the immediate post-war era, highlighting their place, as exiles, within the histories of their emerging nations and their shaping of decolonial modernisms.