Past ACASA Leadership Awards
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2007
Susan Vogel |
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2004 |
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2001
Herbert Cole John Picton |
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1998
Labelle Prussin Merrick Posnansky |
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1995
Frank Willett Robert Farris Thompson |
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1992
Simon Ottenberg |
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1989
Warren d’Azevedo (award presented by Mary Jo Arnoldi) Douglas Fraser |
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1986
Roy Sieber William Fagg |
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Past Roy Sieber Dissertation Awards
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
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