Professor Susan Vogel
Documentary filmmaker and Professor of Art History at Columbia University
Susan has published many books, and written a few, founded an art museum in New York — that survived her departure — and directed two museums. She then successfully completed two years as a MFA student in the New York University Graduate Film Department, and became a documentary film maker.
Susan has a PhD in art history and is internationally recognized as a curator and African art expert. She has held the positions of curator for the African collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; founding Director of the Museum for African Art; and Director of the Yale University Art Gallery.
Susan's last book BAULE: African Art/Western Eyes has been translated into French and received the Herskovits Prize, the African Studies Association's highest honor for a book of original research on Africa. It was also runner up for the Victor Turner Prize of the American Anthropological Association.
Susan is professor of art history at Columbia University, and recently received the prestigious Leadership Award of the Arts Council of the African Studies Association.
We caught up with Professor Vogel during her visit to the US Studies Centre.
