Andrea E. Frohne teaches African Art History in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and in the School of Art at Ohio University. She is also an affiliate faculty member of African Studies. Her manuscript being prepared for publication is entitled Space, Spirituality, and Memory: The African Burial Ground in New York City. She received a  Gilder Lehrman Institute Fellowship at the New-York Historical Society towards final research for the project.

Areas of research and teaching lie in traditional and contemporary African and African Diaspora arts, post-colonial theory, diaspora studies, studies of space, and politics of art.  Course titles include West African Arts, Central African Art, Contemporary African Arts, Art of African Film, Contemporary African Arts and
Colonialism, African Art and Modernity, and Transnational and Global Theories.

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, 2009.

“’Silence is not Golden’: Transnational Memory in Salem Mekuria’s Deluge.” Nka. Journal of
Contemporary African Art, vol. 23, 2009.

“Reclaiming Space: The African Burial Ground in New York City.”  In African American Place-Making
and the Struggle to Claim Space in the U.S., eds. Leslie Alexander and Angel Nieves.  University of
Colorado Press, 2008.

“"la""Laylah Ali’s Typology Series.”  In Beyond Drawing: Constructed Realities, with intro by Petra KralKraliicko.  Columbus, OH: Ohio University Art Galleries, 2008.

Review of Yinka Shonibare in New York City. Nka. Journal of Contemporary African Art. vol 20,
2008.

The Encyclopedia of New York State, 1st ed., s.v. “African Burial Ground”.  Syracuse: Syracuse
University Press, 2005. http://encyclopediaNYS.syr.edu

“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.