Cécile Fromont
Cécile Fromont | |
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| Born | Cécile Alice Fromont Educator |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Thesis | Under the Sign of the Cross in the Kingdom of Kongo: Shaping Images and Molding Faith in Early Modern Central Africa (2008) |
| Doctoral advisor | Suzanne Blier and Thomas B. F. Cummins |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Art history |
| Sub-discipline | African art |
| Institutions | University of Michigan University of Chicago Yale University |
| Website | www |
Cécile Alice Fromont is a French-born American
educator. Fromont is currently Professor of African and South Atlantic Art at Yale University.[1]
Career
Born in
Art History: a Master of Arts in 2004 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 2008. She wrote a doctoral dissertation under Suzanne Blier and Thomas B. F. Cummins titled "Under the Sign of the Cross in the Kingdom of Kongo: Shaping Images and Molding Faith in Early Modern Central Africa."[3]
Upon graduating, Fromont began teaching at the University of Michigan as Assistant Professor of Art History in 2008. Two years later, she transferred to the University of Chicago. In 2017, Fromont was promoted to Associate Professor. In the following year, she was hired by Yale University, and also became a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.[citation needed]
Fromont is a specialist in the visual, material, and religious culture of the Portuguese-speaking Atlantic world during the early modern period.[citation needed]
See also
- List of Harvard University people
- List of fellows of the American Academy in Rome (2011–present)
- List of University of Chicago faculty
- List of University of Michigan faculty and staff
References
- ^ "Home". cecilefromont.com.
- ^ "Cécile Fromont | Department of the History of Art". Yale.
- ^ "1Under the sign of the cross in the kingdom of Kongo: shaping images and molding faith in early modern Central Africa". harvard.edu. Retrieved October 21, 2023.
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