Susan Gagliardi

Emory University

9/3/2019 - 12/31/2019

Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi is associate professor of art history at Emory University. Her scholarship draws on extensive fieldwork in West Africa as well as archival research and object-focused study in Africa, Europe, and North America. Her first book, Senufo Unbound: Dynamics of Art and Identity in West Africa (2014), accompanied a major international exhibition on West African arts labeled as Senufo. At the Clark, Gagliardi will work on "Mapping Senufo," a collaborative digital publication project designed to highlight contingent perspectives and partial meanings that shape the term Senufo and the corpus of art it names.