Michael Oshindoro

Michael Oshindoro earned his PhD in African Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2025, with a doctoral minor in Visual Cultures. His dissertation, Animating Subjectivity: Making the Subject in the Art and Industry of Animation in Nigeria, analyzes how culture‑themed visual productions represent and produce their audiences, and how animators navigate their dual social roles as artist‑citizens within the politics of industry, state, and global economy.

He is now an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Bowdoin College, where his research examines visual forms and practices—such as animation, comics, and VFX—as critical social texts that reshape understandings of African subjectivity in the 21st century.