Justin M. Brown is an art historian based in Boston, Massachusetts.

“‘They call these foolish things obias’: Protestant Iconoclasm and Colonial Policing in Post-Emancipation Suriname,” in Iconoclasm across the Americas, 1500–1900, ed. Wendy Bellion, Mónica Domínguez Torres, and Jennifer van Horn (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2027).

“The Paradoxes of Water Spirits,” in Art & Water, ed. Kaira M. Cabañas (Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, distributed by Yale University Press, 2026).

“Afro-Surinamese Flag Shrines: Materializing Group Identity in the Eighteenth Century,” in The Routledge Companion to Race in Early Modern Artistic, Material, and Visual Production, ed. Nicholas R. Jones, Christina H. Lee, and Dominique Polanco (Routledge, 2025).

“Slavery at Home and Overseas: Lessons from New England and the Netherlands.” In Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Slave Trade: Curating Histories, Envisioning Futures, ed. Sarah Mallory, Joanna S. Seidenstein, Rachel Burke, and Kéla Jackson (Brill, 2025).

“Suriname Maroon Art,” in Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance, ed.Victoria Avery (Fitzwilliam Museum, 2023).

“Marking Transatlantic Time: Accounting for Slavery in Britain and the Caribbean,” in Marking Time: Objects, People, and Their Lives, 1500–1800, ed. Edward Town and Angela McShane (Yale University Press, 2020).