Cécile Fromont Assistant Professor PhD Harvard University

Cécile Fromont is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History of Art and a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Michigan Society of Fellows. Her research interests include the relationship between artistic form and religious thought, the visual syntax of belief systems, cross-cultural translation by visual means, the role of art and architecture in the political history of the kingdom of Kongo and of the Portuguese colony of Angola, the role of Christian art and rituals in the experience of enslavement in colonial Brazil, the history of artistic encounters between Europeans and Africans, art and colonialism, contemporary Caribbean art.

« Icônes chrétiennes ou symboles Kongo? L’art et la religion en Afrique Centrale au temps de la Traite, XVIIème – XVIIIème siècles. » Les cahiers des anneaux de la Mémoire, (forthcoming).

"A Walk through the City: Stories and Histories of Luanda 1575-1975." Ellipsis: The Journal of the American Portuguese Studies Association, 4 (2006): 49-78.

"Figure of a Standing Cleric." and "Three Kongo Crucifixes." In African Art from the Menil Collection, edited by Kristina Van Dyke: 2008.