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Andrea Frohne is Professor of African Art History and Director of the School of Interdisciplinary Arts at Ohio University’s Chaddock + Morrow College of Fine Arts. She also directs the African American Research and Service Institute (AARSI), focusing on Black and Brown life in the Ohio River Valley. Her work bridges art history, postcolonial theory, and spatial studies across the African diaspora.
Her educational background includes a Ph.D. in History and Theory of Art and Architecture from Binghamton University (SUNY), an M.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a B.A. from Western Illinois University. She has previously taught at Cornell University, Penn State University, and Dickinson College.
Dr. Frohne’s research centers on African and African diaspora visual culture, memory, spirituality, and space. She examines how art and monuments negotiate colonialism, conflict, and transnational identity. Her teaching covers contemporary and traditional African arts, cinema, and indigenous knowledge systems. Her scholarship is deeply interdisciplinary, integrating global, postcolonial, and transnational frameworks.
Her publications reveal a sustained engagement with memory sites like the African Burial Ground in NYC and contemporary artists from the Horn of Africa. Themes across her work include spatial justice, narrative politics, linguistic art, and the reclamation of cultural heritage. She explores how art functions as resistance, commemoration, and identity formation across borders.
- Fellow, Käte Hamburger global dis:connect Research Centre, Munich
- Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writer’s Grant Program Finalist
- Howard Fellowship Finalist, Brown University
- Gilder Lehrman Institute Fellowship at the New-York Historical Society
Dr. Frohne has secured funding to bring visiting scholars and artists to Ohio University, including Dr. Rowland Abiodun, Dr. Cynthia Becker, and artists like Wosene Kosrof and Yegizaw Michael. She co-organized the 2011 African Literature Association Conference on local and transnational space. Her leadership in AARSI and the Ph.D. program in Interdisciplinary Arts underscores her commitment to fostering inclusive, critical scholarship.
She is actively involved in research labs and initiatives centered on African American and African diaspora studies, particularly through AARSI, which supports community-engaged scholarship on Black and Brown life in the Ohio River Valley. Her work integrates academic research with public history and cultural advocacy.
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