l'Afrique

États-Unis d'Amérique

Deputy Director and Chief Curator

University of California, Los Angeles

proberts@arts.ucla.edu

Fowler Museum of Cultural History
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Box 951549
Los Angeles, California 90095-1549 USA

phone: 310/825-9025
fax: 310/206-7007

http://www.fmch.ucla.edu/

Congo (Democratic Republic) ; Senegal

Ph.D. (Art History, Columbia, 1991)

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 ; ...