Lexi Moses is a PhD student in the department of African and African American Studies at The Ohio State University. Their research focuses on how archival, collecting, and curational practices in U.S. museum institutions contribute to Black cultural production and (re)memory of the transatlantic slave trade. Their work seeks to reveal how museums function as a tool of U.S. nationalism and at broad, anti-Black worldbuilding, while also investigating how Black communities preserve, archive, and curate memories of the past on their own terms.