Suzanne preston blier biography of rory

Suzanne Preston Blier (Ph.D. 1981 Columbia, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University) is an historian of African art and architecture in both the History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies Departments.

Suzanne preston blier biography of rory

She also is a member of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and Faculty Associate at the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative. Blier also was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a former member of the the Collège de France International Scientific and Strategic Committee (COSS).

In 2017 she was bestowed a Yoruba (Nigeria) chieftaincy title, Otun Yeye Obalufon (“First/Right Mother of Obalufon”), by Oba Aderemi Adedapo, Secretary General of the Yoruba Council of Yoruba Obas for her work on Ife art and history.

In 2011 two of Blier’s articles were selected for the Centennial Anthology of the Art Bulletin, comprising the 33 top articles over the journal’