Abbe Schriber focuses on 20th and 21st century art, performance, and material culture of the African Diaspora. Her research analyzes the unconventional, genre-blurring practices of artists of African descent in the United States to ask how diaspora—along with its dynamics of cultural survival and loss—is integral to visual innovation. She approaches African American art from a transnational standpoint, looking at Black artistic communities in the U.S. as diasporic and hemispheric.