Alisa LaGamma is the Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer Curator of the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the

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. She received her PhD from

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in 1995 for a dissertation titled "The Art of the Punu Mukudj Masquerade: Portrait of an Equatorial Society", for which she carried out a year of fieldwork in southern Gabon. In 2012 she received the Iris Award for Outstanding Scholarship of the

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in recognition of her contribution to rethinking the history of sub-Saharan African art and culture. She curated the exhibition " Kongo: Power and Majesty".

Selected publications

* ''Genesis: Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture''. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2002. * ''Eternal Ancestors: The Art of the Central African Reliquary''. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2007. * ''Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures''. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2011. * "Silenced Mbembe Muses", ''Metropolitan Museum Journal'', 48 (2013): 143–160. *
Kongo: Power and Majesty
'. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2015.

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*https://www.metmuseum.org/connections/africa#/Feature/ Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People associated with the Metropolitan Museum of Art American art historians Women art historians American women historians Columbia University alumni Curators of African art 21st-century American women American women curators American curators {{US-art-historian-stub