CONTRIBUTOR:

Gitti Salami

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT:

Art History

INSTITUTION:

Pacific Northwest College of Art

BIOGRAPHY:

Gitti Salami is an associate professor at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland. She has received numerous research and visiting fellowships, including Fulbright-Hays DDRA, Smithsonian Institution, West Africa Research Association (WARA, Boston University), and Sainsbury Research Unit (University of East Anglia). Her research focuses on the cultures of the Middle Cross River region of southeastern Nigeria. Her publications have appeared in African Arts and in Critical Interventions; a monograph on the Yakurr Leboku festival is forthcoming. A co-edited volume, A Companion to Modern African Art, was published by John Wiley in 2013.