Ph.D. History and Theory of Art and Architecture, Binghamton University (State University of New York)

M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison

B.A. Western Illinois University

Andrea E. Frohne teaches African Art History in the School of Art and the School of Interdisciplinary Arts at Ohio University. She has held visiting positions at Cornell University, Pennsylvania State University, and Dickinson College. Her manuscript for publication is entitled Space, Spirituality, and Memory: The African Burial Ground in New York City.

Areas of interest lie in traditional and contemporary African and African Diaspora arts, post-colonial theory, diaspora studies, studies of space, and politics of art.

Publications include:

“Language, Memory, and the Transnational: Art of Wosene Worke Kosrof”. In The New African Diaspora: Assessing the Pains and Gains of Exile, eds. Isidore Okpewho and Nkiru Nzegwu. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, forthcoming.

“African Connections: The African Burial Ground in New York City”. In Globalization, African Culture, and the Academy: Indigenous Africa and Diaspora Discourses, ed. Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, forthcoming.

Review of Yinka Shonibare in New York City. Nka. Journal of Contemporary African Art. vol 21, forthcoming.

“Deconstructing Diversity in African Art.” Catalogue essay for the exhibit African Art: Diversity in Forms at Georgia Southern University Museum, Jan 17-March 27, 2005.

“Representing Jean-Michel Basquiat.” In The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Self-Fashioning, eds., Isidore Okpewho, Carole Boyce Davies, and Ali Mazrui. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.