Monica Blackmun Visona

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Associate Professor, School of Art and Visual Studies
Affiliation	University of Kentucky
Email	m.b.visona@uky.edu
Mailing Address	SAVS, 236 Bolivar Lexington, KY 0090
Phone/Fax Number(s)	(859) 257-1398
Countries of Specialization	Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana; Kenya; Egypt; the Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia)
Education	Ph.D. Art History, University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Interests	History of African Art History, Akan arts, Cross-continental art historical links, Africa and global modernism, Africa and the contemporary art market
Teaching Interests	African architecture, African art history and world art, curatorial projects concerning African art and artists
Publications	They include: Constructing African Art Histories for the Lagoons of Cote d'Ivoire (Ashgate, 2010), co-editor with Gitti Salami of A Blackwell Companion to Modern African Art (Wiley, 2013), co-editor with Robin Poynor and H.M. Cole of A History of Art in Africa (Pearson 2010, Abrams 2000), “Agent Provocateur: The African Provenance and American Life of a Statue from Côte d’Ivoire”, Art Bulletin, XCIV, 1 (March 2012): 99-129);“Notes and Queries on Egypt’s Participation in the First World Festival of Negro Arts.” Africa e Mediterraneo 68 (2009): 71‑9.
Keywords	Lagoons, agency, Modern African art, History of Art, Cote d'Ivoire