The Department of History of Art and Architecture is delighted to announce the appointment of Cécile Fromont as a professor in our department. Born in Martinique, and with degrees from Science-Po and Harvard, Fromont has published field-changing books on the Christian visual culture of early modern Kongo and Angola and on Afro-Catholic festivals in the Americas. “One of the great challenges of today’s Humanities,” writes HAA Chair Joseph Leo Koerner, “is to forge a new conception of the global. In the objects and performances she elects to study, and in capacious and original ways she...