Bamidele Agbasegbe Demerson, chief curator at the African American Museum and Library at Oakland, received his undergraduate and graduate training in cultural anthropology at The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He also earned the M.A. degree in Museum Studies from Southern University in New Orleans. Results of his anthropological fieldwork in Ghana and Nigeria in West Africa, and in Haiti, Brazil, and Southern United States in the African Diaspora have focused on comparative family studies, spiritual traditions, and visual art. Demerson has also taught at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor and Southern University at New Orleans. His research initiatives have been presented at national and international conferences, as well as published in refereed journals, anthologies, and exhibition catalogs. He is the author of When the Ancestors Dance: Memory, Modernism, and Visual Art by Willis Bing Davis (in press) and Rejuvenate: Images for Healing and Renewal by Akili Simba (2021).