Shannen Hill

Dr. Shannen Hill is an independent scholar and curator who oversees select projects and programs for the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art. She authored Biko’s Ghost: The Iconography of Black Consciousness (2015 University of Minnesota Press) and curated Shifting Views: People & Politics in Contemporary African Art (2017 Baltimore Museum of Art) and The Art of African Ivory (2018 Queens University). A Smithsonian Senior Fellowship (2016-17) lent support to her next book, Art & Ore | South African Mining History in Twenty Acts.

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