Allen F. Roberts (University of California, Los Angeles)

Submitted: Mon, 25 August 2003


Allen F. Roberts, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of World Arts & Cultures
Professor (affiliated), Department of French and Francophone Studies

Director, James S. Coleman African Studies Center
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
10244 Bunche Hall, box 951310
Los Angeles, California  90095-1310  USA

phone:   (1-310) 825-3686
fax:     (1-310) 206-2250
e-mail:  aroberts@artsucla.edu


Website: http://www.isop.ucla.edu/jscasc


Ph.D. (Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1980)

Professor Roberts conducts research, writes, and organizes museum
exhibitions with his spouse, Dr. Mary Nooter Roberts, such as _Memory:
Luba Art and the Making of History_ (1996, that won the College Art
Association's Alfred Barr Award; currently working with Mary Nooter
Roberts on "'Passport to Paradise': Sufi Arts of Senegal and Beyond," an 
NEH-funded exhibition (See: http://www.fmch.ucla.edu/passporttoparadise.htm) and the 
accompanying exhibition catalogue: _A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of 
Urban Senegal_ (2003) ; doctoral research in Zaire/DRCong, also 
interested in cultural dynamics of the Indian Ocean World.