Gregory H. Williams is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art at Boston University, USA. He is a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Germany, a residential grant from the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Getty Foundation, and an NEH Summer Stipend, Professor Williams devotes much of his research to art produced in Germany since 1945. He also writes about international artists in relation to globalization, exhibition culture, humor, and politics. He has published in periodicals, including Artforum, frieze, Art Journal, Parkett, October, and Texte zur Kunst, and has worked as an editor of the Brooklyn- and Berlin-based Cabinet magazine.