Department
of Art History
University of Chicago
270 Cochrane Woods Art Center
5540 South Greenwood Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60637 - USA
+1
773 702 4759
fromont@uchicago.edu
University of Chicago, July 2010 - Present
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, September 2008 – July 2010
Postdoctoral Scholar at the Michigan
Society of Fellows
Assistant Professor in the Department
of the History of Art
Harvard University
Ph.D. History of Art
and Architecture, 2008
Fields of Study: African and Latin American Art and
Architecture
Advisors: Suzanne P. Blier and Thomas B. F. Cummins
Dissertation: “Under the Sign of the Cross in the
Molding Images and Shaping Faith in Early Modern
M.A. History of Art and
Architecture, 2004
Fields of Study: African and Latin American Art and Architecture
Sciences-po Paris
Diplôme of the Paris Institute of Political Studies, 2002
Majors: Culture
Management and International
Relations
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Articles
"Dance, Image, Myth, and Conversion in the
Kingdom of Kongo: 1500-1800." African Arts
44, 4 (2011): 54-65. http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/afar.2011.44.4.52
« Icônes chrétiennes ou symboles Kongo? L’art et la religion
en Afrique Centrale au temps de la Traite,
XVIIème – XVIIIème siècles. » Les
cahiers des anneaux de la Mémoire, 12 (2009): 47-60. http://anneauxdelamemoire.org/fr/ressources/publications-et-conferences/les-cahiers-des-anneaux-de-la-memoire/item/201-cam12-2009.html
"A
Walk through the City: Stories and Histories of
Book
Chapter
"Collecting
and Translating Knowledge Across Cultures: Capuchin
Missionary Images of Early modern Central Africa." In Collecting Across Cultures: Material Exchanges
in the Early Modern Atlantic World, edited by Daniela Bleichmar
and Peter Mancall, 134-154. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
Catalogue
Contributions
"Figure of a
Standing Cleric." and "Three Kongo
Crucifixes."
In African Art from the
Menil Collection, edited by Kristina Van Dyke,
Houston: The Menil Collection, 2008.
Other
contributions
Review
of A Carved Loango
Tusk Local Images and Global Connections ed. By J. Janzen in African Arts, 45, 4 (2012):88. http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/afar.2012.45.1.88
"Under
the Sign of the Cross in the Kingdom of Kongo:
Shaping Images and Molding Faith in Early Modern Central Africa." In
Center 28: Record of Activities and
Research Reports June 2007 – May 2008. Washington DC: National Gallery of
Art, 2008. http://www.nga.gov/pdf/center-28.pdf
SELECTED AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Dirrecção-Geral de Arquivos
/ Luso-American Development Foundation Fellowship Award,
Portugal, 2011
Michigan Society of Fellows Post-Doctoral
Fellowship, USA, 2008 – 2011 (declined 2010-2011)
Harvard Graduate Society Dissertation
Completion Fellowship, USA, 2008-2009 (declined)
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts – National Gallery of Art Andrew W. Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellowship,
Les Talents de l’Outre-Mer Prize awarded by the Comité d’Action Sociale en faveur des
Originaires des Départements d’Outre Mer en Métropole (CASODOM), France, November 2007
Harvard Graduate Society Term Time Merit Award
for Dissertation Research: Arthur Lehman Fund,
Bourse régionale de
formation doctorale de la région Martinique Fellowship, France, 2004-2007
Instituto
dos Arquivos Nacionais – Torre do Tombo / Luso-American Development Foundation Fellowship Award, Portugal, 2006
Charles Eliot Norton Dissertation Travel and
Research Grant, USA, 2005-2006
“Introduction to Art”
– Core Curriculum – Autumn 2010
“The Origin of
the Fetish” – Graduate Seminar – Winter 2011
“Exhibiting
African Art” – Undergraduate/Graduate Seminar – Spring
2011
“Envisioning the
Colonial Metropolis” – Core Curriculum – Spring 2011,
Spring 2012
“Introduction to
African Art” – Core Curriculum – Winter 2012
“The Art of
Conversion” – Graduate Seminar – Winter 2012
“Circa 1650” –
Undergraduate/Graduate Seminar – Spring 2012
“African
Civilization” – Core Curriculum – Autumn 2012 (at the
University of Chicago Paris Center)
“Kongo/Congo in Theory” – Graduate Seminar – Winter 2013
“Africa,
America” – Undergraduate/Graduate Seminar – Winter
2013
“Art and
Colonialism” – Core Curriculum – Spring 2013 (at the University
of Chicago Paris Center)
Preliminary
Examinations Committee Member
Ingrid Greenfield (Spring 2010) - Leslie Wilson (Autumn 2011)
Dissertation
Committee Member
Ingrid Greenfield – Leslie
Wilson
Faculty
Mentor for Graduate Student Instructors
Michael Timkiw
(2010-2011) – Ingrid Greenfield (2011-2012)
African Studies
Association
Arts Council of the
African Studies Association
Association for Latin
American Art
Brazilian Studies
Association
College Art Association
Renaissance Studies
Association
Forum for European
Expansion and Global Interactions
Conducted archival and museum research in:
Africa:
Asia:
North and South America:
Europe: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands,
Poland, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State
LANGUAGES
Caribbean Creole and French – Native
speaker
English – Fluent
Portuguese, and Spanish – Reading: Fluent, Writing and Speaking: Proficient
Italian – Reading: Fluent,
Writing and Speaking: Basic
Arabic, German, Hindi, Kikongo, Urdu – Basic
Latin