Andrea Frohne is professor of African art history and Director of the School of Interdisciplinary Arts at Ohio University, with a joint appointment in the School of Art + Design and of African studies. Her first book is The African Burial Ground in New York City: Memory, Spirituality, and Space. Her second book titled Contemporary Arts from the Horn of Africa: Encounters Beyond Borders through Conflict, Colonialism, and Modernity is forthcoming. She earned her PhD from Binghamton University (State University of New York). She has taught at Cornell University, Pennsylvania State and Dickinson College.

Waterways in Contemporary Arts and Visual Culture of the African World

While at global dis:connect, Andrea was drafting a book titled Waterways in Contemporary Arts and Visual Culture of the African World.  The project pushes the boundaries of African art history, examining geographic features of water in relation to socio-political and geo-political histories and arts of the African world. Diverse waterways affect and inform the arts as a result of slavery, colonialism, migration, global production, piracy and Afro-politan travel. These water networks, tides, currents and fluidities envelop frictions connected to raw materials extraction, transportation and (im)mobility.