Amy Helene Kirschke is a professor and chair at University of North Carolina, Wilmington, in the Department of Art and Art History. She is the author of "Aaron Douglas: Art, Race, and the Harlem Renaissance" (published by University Press of Mississippi) and "Art in Crisis: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Struggle for African American Identity and Memory" (winner of the 2007 SECAC award for excellence in writing and research), and coeditor of "Protest and Propaganda: W. E. B. Du Bois, the "Crisis," and American History".