Kathy Curnow

Kathy Curnow is an Africanist art historian who has worked in several regions of Nigeria since 1983. A Benin specialist, she has spent over fourteen years of fieldwork in the kingdom, and has published numerous articles and chapters on specific Benin sculptures. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Fulbright Scholar Program, and she is a Smithsonian Institution Senior Fellow, as well as a consulting scholar for the Penn Museum's African Section....See more

Kathy Curnow is an Africanist art historian who has worked in several regions of Nigeria since 1983. A Benin specialist, she has spent over fourteen years of fieldwork in the kingdom, and has published numerous articles and chapters on specific Benin sculptures. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Fulbright Scholar Program, and she is a Smithsonian Institution Senior Fellow, as well as a consulting scholar for the Penn Museum's African Section. She is an Associate Professor of Art History at Cleveland State University. See less