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 1998, she was a guest editor for " African Arts" journal. 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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