Alumni News | Fernanda Villarroel Lamoza Appointed Visiting Asst. Prof. at Oberlin

Fernanda Villarroel Lamoza, who graduated with a Ph.D. in Art History in 2021, has been appointed Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History of Africa and the Black Atlantic at Oberlin College. As the current Sylvan C. Coleman and Pam Coleman Memorial Fund Fellow at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, she has been working on expanding her dissertation into her first book project: Refiguring the Feminine: Reparative Art Practices from the Black Atlantic.Additionally, she is contributing to the organizing committee for the African Studies Association Conference, and creating digital resources for the Second Edition of the African art history textbook: The Visual Arts of Africa: Gender, Power, and Life Cycle Rituals, to be published this spring by Oxford University Press.