Allen F. Roberts

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Professor; Director
Affiliation	University of California, Los Angeles
Email	aroberts@artsucla.edu
Mailing Address	Department of French and Francophone Studies James S. Coleman African Studies Center University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 10244 Bunche Hall, box 951310 Los Angeles, California 90095-1310 USA
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: (1-310) 825-3686 fax: (1-310) 206-2250
Websites	http://www.isop.ucla.edu/jscasc
Countries of Specialization	Congo (Democratic Republic) ; Senegal
Education	Ph.D. (Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1980)
Research Interests	Professor Roberts conducts research, writes, and organizes museum exhibitions with his spouse, Dr. Mary Nooter Roberts, such as _Memory: Luba Art and the Making of History_ (1996, that won the College Art Association's Alfred Barr Award. Currently working with Mary Nooter Roberts on "'Passport to Paradise': Sufi Arts of Senegal and Beyond," an NEH-funded exhibition (See: http://www.fmch.ucla.edu/passporttoparadise.htm) and the accompanying exhibition catalogue: _A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal_ (2003) ; doctoral research in Zaire/DRCong, also interested in cultural dynamics of the Indian Ocean World.
Publications	None on file.
Keywords	museum exhibitions ; African art ; art history ; modernity ; ...