Araba Evelyn Johnston-Arthur is a theorist, (un) learning educator, researcher, curator, author, and memory worker. She earned her Ph.D. from Howard University in Washington, D.C. in Black Politics, International Relations, and African Diasporan History. Her dissertation is dedicated to the (un)silencing of the glocal, pan-African resistance and racism critiques of Unokanma Okonjo and the Pan-African Students Union of Austria in post-Nazi Austria, and examines mechanisms of decolonization and neocolonization during the Global Cold War. She was co-founder of Pamoja. Movement of the young African diaspora in Austria and the Researchgroup of Black Austrian history, and is a member of the directors collective of MUSMIG (Museum for Migration)
– a museum in Vienna struggling to exist, while questioning the foundational violence that underlies museums in Europe. Her trans- and anti-disciplinary work addresses (neo)colonial image-, gaze- and surveillance regimes, the presences of repressed movement histories, and inquires decolonial interconnectedness, poetics and aesthetics.