Past ACASA Leadership Awards
2017
Sidney Kasfir
Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts
2014
Jean Borgatti
Henry Drewal
2011
Doran Ross
Rowland Abiodun
2007
Susan Vogel
2004
Joanne Eicher
Ekpo Eyo
2001
Herbert Cole
John Picton
1998
Labelle Prussin
Merrick Posnansky
1995
Frank Willett
Robert Farris Thompson
1992
Simon Ottenberg
1989
Warren d’Azevedo
Douglas Fraser
1986
Roy Sieber
William Fagg
Past Roy Sieber Dissertation Awards
2017
Giulia Paoletti, Un Nouveau Besoin: Photography and Portraiture in Senegal (1860-1960). Supervisor Z.S. Strother (Columbia)
2014
Amanda Rogers, Politics, Gender and the Art of Religious Authority in North Africa: Moroccan Women’s Henna Practice, Emory University, 2013.
2011
Alexander Bortolot, A Language for Change: Creativity and Power in Mozambican Makonde Masked Performance, circa 1900-2004, Columbia University, 2007.
Honorable Mention:
Nichole Bridges, Contact, Commentary, and Kongo Memory: Perspectives on Loango Coast Souvenir Ivories, ca. 1840-1910, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2009.
2007
Venny M. Nakazibwe, Bark-Cloth of the Baganda People of Southern Uganda: A Record of Continuity and Change from the Late Eighteenth Century to the Early Twenty-first Century (supervisor: Jackie Guille), Middlesex University, 2005.
Chika Okeke-Agulu, Nigerian Art in the Independence Decade: 1957-1967 (Supervisor: Sidney Kasfir), Emory University, Art History Department, 2004.
2004
David Doris, Vigilant Things: The Strange Fate of Ordinary Objects in Southwestern Nigeria (Supervisor: Robert Farris Thompson), Yale University, Department of the History of Art, 2003.
Kim Miller, The Philani Printing Project: Women’s Art and Activism in Crossroads, South Africa (Supervisor: Henry John Drewal), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Art History, 2003.
Past Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Awards
2017
Cécile Fromont, The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo, University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
Chika Okeke-Agulu, Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria., Duke University Press, 2015. Honorable mention.
Silvia Forni and Christopher Steiner (eds.), Africa in the Market: Twentieth-Century Art from the Amrad African Art Collection, ROM, 2015. Multi-authored publication.
Alisa LaGamma (ed.) Giulia Paoletti Karen E. Milbourne, Kongo: Power and Majesty, MET, 2015. Multi-authored publication.
2014
Allen Roberts, A Dance of Assassins: Performing Early Colonial Hegemony in the Congo, Indiana University Press, 2012 (single author category).
Marla Berns, Richard Fardon, and Sidney Littlefield Kasfir (eds.), Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley, UCLA Fowler Museum, 2011 (multiple authors category).
Peter Probst, Osogbo and the Art of Heritage: Monuments, Deities, and Money, Indiana University Press, 2011 (honorable mention).
Gitti Salami and Monica Blackmun Visona (eds.), A Companion to Modern African Art, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 (honorable mention).
2011
Jessica Winegar, Creative Reckonings: The Politics of Art and Culture In Contemporary Egypt, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006 (single author category).
Honorable Mention:
Steven Nelson, From Cameroon to Paris: Mousgoum Architecture In and Out of Africa, Chicago University Press, 2007 (single author category).
Henry John Drewal, ed. Sacred Waters: Arts for Mami Wata and other Divinities in Africa and the Diaspora. , Bloomington & Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 2008 (Multiple Authors).
Honorable Mention:
Christine Mullen Kreamer, Polly Nooter Roberts, Elizabeth Harney and Allyson Purpura, eds. Inscribing Meaning, Milan: 5 Continents Press, 2007 (Multiple Authors).
2007
Elizabeth Harney, In Senghor’s Shadow: Art, Politics, and the Avant-Garde in Senegal, 1960-1995, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004 (One to Two Authors).
Sarah Nuttall, ed., Beautiful-Ugly: African and African Diaspora Aesthetics, Durham, NC: Duke University Press and The Hague: Prince Claus Fund Library, 2005 (Multiple Authors).
2004
Allen Roberts & Polly Nooter Roberts, A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 2004 (One to Two Authors).
Gilane Tawadros & Sarah Campbell, eds., Fault Lines: Contemporary African art and Shifting Landscapes, ed. London: Institute of International Visual Arts in collaboration with the Forum for African Arts and the Prince Claus Fund, 2003 (Multiple Authors).
2001
Z.S. Strother, Inventing Masks: Agency and History in the Art of the Central Pende, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997 (One to Two Authors).
Doran Ross, et. al., Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African-American Identity, Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1998 (Multiple Authors).
1998
Veit Erlmann, Nightsong: Performance, Power, and Practice in South Africa, University of Chicago Press, 1996 (One to Two Authors).
Donald Cosentino, ed., Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, Los Angeles: University of California Los Angeles, Fowler, 1995 (Multiple Authors).
1995
Sarah Brett-Smith, The Making of Bamana Sculpture: Creativity and Gender, Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994 (One to Two Authors).
1992
Enid Schildkraut & Curtis Keim, African Reflections: Art from Northeastern Zaire, Seattle:
University of Washington Press; New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1990.
1989
Suzanne Preston Blier, The Anatomy of Architecture: Ontology and Metaphor in Batammaliba Architectural Expression, Cambridge University Press, 1987
Past Curatorial Excellence Award
2017
Karen E. Milbourne, Earth Matters, National Museum of Africa Art, Washington, D.C., April 22, 2013-March 2014.
Jean Borgatti, Global Africa, Fitchburg Art Museum, November 2014-August 2017.
Antawan I. Byrd and Yves Chatap, [Re]Generations, Musée du District de Bamako, October 31-December 31, 2015.