Dr. Malvoisin is the Associate Curator of African Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Her research specializes in archaeological ceramic studies and researches the inter-regional relationships between Nile Valley sites and West African sites via Meroitic pottery and wider ancient trade industries. Malvoisin is a curator and scholar of ancient African history with research interests in a globalized ancient world through the study of material culture and trade and from the perspective of African regions. In addition to the Brooklyn Museum, she has worked on the collections of Global Africa and Egypt and Nubia at the Royal Ontario Museum and as a ceramicist for the Bioarchaeology of Nubia Expedition at Arizona State University. Her scholarship has been supported by the Ontario Graduate Scholarship, the American Alliance of Museums, the Association of Art Museum Curators, and the American Society of Overseas Research, among others. Previous curatorial projects include Africa Fashion and Sakimatwemtwe: A Century of Reflection on the Arts of Africa at the Brooklyn Museum.
Annissa Malvoisin
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