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| Name: |
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Peter M. Probst |
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Associate Professor of Art & Art History
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| Departmental Affiliation: |
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Art & Art History Department
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| Degrees: |
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Dr.phil.habil. University of Bayreuth; Dr.phil. Free University Berlin; M.Phil. University of Cambridge; M.A. Free University Berlin |
| Expertise: |
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African Art, Visual Culture, Critical Theory, Globalization, Disciplinary History
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| Major Awards: |
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Institute for Advanced Cultural and Visual Studies (IFK) in Vienna, Senior Fellowship; FRAC Research Grant, Tufts University; German Research Foundation Research Grants, German Research Foundation Post Doctoral Fellowship; German Merit Foundation Dissertation Fellowship; German Academic Exchange Service Graduate Scholarship.
Member of the Advisory Board for Journal of African History & Critical Interventions. Journal of African Art and Visual Culture |
| E-mail: |
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peter.probst@tufts.edu
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| Scholarship & Research: |
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Globalization of Memory, African Modernities, Heritage Politics, Aesthetics of Place, History of African Art History
Books and Edited Volumes:
The Art of Heritage in a Yoruba City. Submitted to Indiana University Press
Hybrid Heritage (Guest Editor together wit Ferdinand de Jong), African Arts, Vol. 42, No. 4, 2009
Visual Publics (Guest Editor), Critical Interventions. Journal of African Art and Visual Culture, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2008
Kalumbas Fest. Geschichte, Lokalität und Rituelle Praxis in Malawi.
Münster, Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2005
Between Resistance and Expansion. Explorations of Local Vitality in Africa and Beyond. (ed. with Gerd Spittler). Münster, Berlin &
Rochster: LIT & Transaction Publishers, 2004
African Modernities. Entangled Meanings in Current Debate. (ed. with Jan Gorg Deutsch and Heike Schmid). Oxford, New York: James Currey & Heineman, 2002
Recent Articles:
Yoruba Heritage as Project. Reauthenticating the Osun Grove in Osogbo, Nigeria. African Arts, Vol. 4. No. 4. 2009
Modernism against Modernity: A Tribute to Susanne Wenger. Critical Interventions. Journal of African Art and Visual Culture, Vol. 2, No.
3, 2009
A Matter of Mimicry: Visual Publics. Critical Interventions. Journal of African Art and Visual Culture, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2008
The Modernity of Heritage. In: Vincent van Houben & Mona Schrempf
(eds.) Figurations of Modernity. Frankfurt: Campus, 2008
Picturing the Past. Memory, Photography and the Politics of Appearance in A Yoruba City. In: Ferdinand De Jong & Michael Rowlands (eds.) Reclaiming Heritage. Alternative Imaginations in West Africa. San Francisco & Oxford: LeftCoast Press & Berg, 2007
An African Journey. Cultural Heritage and the Popularity of Primitivism. In RES. Journal of Anthropology and Aesthetics, Vol. 52,
2007
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