David Scott

Caribbean Art and Its Diasporas Fellow

01/27/2025–06/13/2025

David Scott is the Ruth and William Lubic Professor in the department of Anthropology at Columbia University in New York. He is the author of a number of books, including Stuart Hall’s Voice: Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity (2017) and Irreparable Evil: An Essay in Moral and Reparatory History (2024). The founding editor of Small Axe, Scott is director of the Small Axe Project. In 2022, he was the lead curator of Pressure, the Kingston Biennial. Currently at work on a biography of Stuart Hall, Scott will devote his time at the Clark to examining Hall’s work in the 1970s.