Chika Okeke-Agulu, Princeton University
Associate Professor
Department of Art and Archaeology
Princeton, New Jersey
cokekeag@princeton.edu
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(609) 258-7456
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Chika Okeke-Agulu specializes in classical, modern, and contemporary African art history and theory. He previously taught at The Pennsylvania State University, Emory University, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and Yaba College of Technology, Lagos. In 2006, he edited the first ever issue of Africa...
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Chika Okeke-Agulu specializes in classical, modern, and contemporary African art history and theory. He previously taught at The Pennsylvania State University, Emory University, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and Yaba College of Technology, Lagos. In 2006, he edited the first ever issue of African Arts Dedicated to African Modernism, and has published articles and reviews in African Arts, Meridians: Feminism, Race, Internationalism, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Art South Africa and Glendora Review. He contributed to edited volumes such as Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace, The Nsukka Artists and Contemporary Nigerian Art, and The Grove Dictionary of Art. Professor Okeke-Agulu is the author of a new book, Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria. Professor Okeke-Agulu is a recipient of the Arts Council of the African Studies Association Outstanding Dissertation triennial award (2007). In 2007, Professor Okeke-Agulu was appointed the Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professor of Art History at Williams College, and Fellow at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
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