Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi

Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi is Associate Professor of Art History at Emory University. Her scholarship draws on extensive fieldwork in West Africa, archival research, and object-focused study in Africa, Europe, and North America. In 2014, the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) and 5 Continents Editions published her first book, Senufo Unbound: Dynamics of Art and Identity in West Africa. The CMA released the book in conjunction with a major international exhibition organized by the museum. Her second book Seeing the Unseen: Arts of Power Associations on the Senufo-Mande Cultural ‘Frontier’ is currently in press with Indiana University Press. In addition, she has authored and co-authored several articles, including “Art and the Individual in African Masquerades” and “Seeing the Unseeing Audience: Women and West African Power Association Masquerades.”