l'Afrique

États-Unis d'Amérique

Professor; Director

University of California, Los Angeles

aroberts@artsucla.edu

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: (1-310) 825-3686
fax: (1-310) 206-2250

http://www.isop.ucla.edu/jscasc

Congo (Democratic Republic) ; Senegal

Ph.D. (Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1980)

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.

None on file.

museum exhibitions ; African art ; art history ; modernity ; ...