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DEPARTMENT OF
ART HISTORY AND ART
 

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College of Arts and Science

Constantine Petridis

EDUCATION

  • Ghent University, Ph.D. in Art History, 1997 (doctor in de Kunstwetenschappen): Summa cum laude (De Grootste Onderscheiding). Dissertation: Context en morfologie van de plastische kunst bij de Luluwa (Zuid-Centraal Zaïre) [Context and Morphology of the Art of the Luluwa]. (554 p.)

  • Ghent University, M.A. in Art History and Archaeology, specialization in Ethnic Art, 1991 (licentiaat in de Kunstgeschiedenis en Oudheidkunde): Summa cum laude . Thesis: De houten maskers van de Pende (Zaïre: Lutshima-Kasaï) [Wooden Masks of the Pende]. (316 p.)

  • Ghent University, B.A. in Art History and Archaeology, 1989 (kandidaat in de Kunstgeschiedenis en Oudheidkunde): Magna cum laude (Grote Onderscheiding)

APPOINTMENTS, FELLOWSHIPS, INTERNSHIPS

  • National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, 2005 (2 months)

  • Case Western Reserve University, Department of Art History and Art, Assistant Professor of Art History, and The Cleveland Museum of Art, Associate Curator of African Art, since January 1, 2002

  • Ghent University, Postdoctoral Fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders, Belgium (Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen, F.W.O.) and lecturer in the Department of Ethnic Art, 1998-2001 (39 months [termination of the renewal of my fellowship term because of my joint appointment in Cleveland])

  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Postdoctoral Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation (B.A.E.F.) in the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, 1998-99 (10 months)

  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow in the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, 1997-98 (9 months)

  • Ghent University, Research Assistant (Aspirant) of the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders, Belgium, and doctoral candidate in the Department of Ethnic Art, 1993-97 (48 months)

  • Ethnographic Museum, Antwerp, intern/curatorial assistant [in fulfillment of my civilian service in lieu of the then compulsory military service], 1991-93 (19 months)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • "Bwadi bwa Chikwanga: A Ram Mask of the Bakwa Luntu." African Arts 38, 2 (2005): 50-59, 93-95.

  • “Art et histoire des Luba méridionaux: la collection du Père Peeraer a l'Université de Gand.” Anthropos 100, 1 (2005): 5-16

  • South of the Sahara: Selected Works of African Art . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 2003.

  • "Kalengula: Ephemeral Masks among the Luntu and Neighboring Peoples of the Democratic Republic of the Congo," in Material Differences: Art and Identity in Africa , ed. Frank Herreman, pp. 137-141, exh. cat., The Museum for African Art, New York, 2003.

  • "Mbala, Tsaam, or Kwilu Pende? A Mother-and-Child Figure from the 'Kwango-Kwilu Region' of the Democratic Republic of the Congo." Cleveland Studies in the History of Art 7 (2002) : 127-141.

  • “A Figure for Cibola : Art, Politics, and Aesthetics among the Luluwa (Democratic Republic of the Congo).” Metropolitan Museum Journal 36 (2001): 235-258.

  • Frans M. Olbrechts (1899-1958): In Search of Art in Africa , exh. cat., Ethnographic Museum, Antwerp, 2001. Editor and author of “Prologue: To the Memory of Adriaan Claerhout” [pp. 13-18], “Introduction: Olbrechts and the Art of Africa” [pp. 20-36], Chapter 5: “Olbrechts and the Morphological Approach to African Sculptural Art” [pp. 118-140], Chapter 7: “Congolese Art in Antwerp (1937-38)” [pp. 170-186], and entries nrs. 15-24, 26-32, 50-68, 71-72, 94, 96-97, 99. Also published in a Dutch edition. (464 p.)

  • “Exhibition Review: Arts of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. Musée du Louvre, Pavillon des Sessions, Paris, France.” African Arts 34, 3 (2001): 74-77, 95-96.

  • “Frans Olbrechts à la recherche des arts de l'Afrique.” Arts d'Afrique noire 120 (2001): 26-32.

  • “Chokwe Masks and Franciscan Missionaries in Sandoa, Belgian Congo, ca. 1948.” Anthropos 96, 1 (2001): 3-28.

  • “Les Arts du bassin du Congo,” in Arts d'Afrique , ed. Christiane Falgayrettes-Leveau, pp. 285-316, 331-333, exh. cat., Musée Dapper/Gallimard, Paris, 2000.

  • “Notes succinctes sur les masques kalengula des Luntu et des peuples voisins (République Démocratique du Congo).” Arts d'Afrique noire (Arnouville, France) 115 (2000): 17-25; 116 (2000): 19-27.

  • “Tree Altars, Spirit-Trees, and ‘Ghost-Posts' among the Luluwa and Neighboring Peoples.” Baessler-Archiv XLVII, 1 (1999): 115-150.

  • “Luluwa Masks.” African Arts 32, 3 (1999): 32-47, 91-94.

  • Entries nrs. 147-149. In Afrika: Kunst und Kultur. Meisterwerke afrikanischer Kunst, Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin , ed. Hans-Joachim Koloss, pp. 223-224, exh. cat., Prestel, Munich/New York/London, 1999.

  • “Of Mothers and Sorcerers: A Luluwa Maternity Figure,” in African Art at The Art Institute of Chicago , pp. 183-195, 198-200, The Art Institute of Chicago (Museum Studies, 23/2), 1997.

  • Entries nrs. 162-168. In The Tervuren Museum Masterpieces from Central Africa , eds. Gustaaf Verswijver et al., pp. 166-169, 200, exh. cat., Prestel, Munich/New York (Annals of the Royal Museum for Central Africa [Tervuren], Human Sciences, 155), 1996.

  • Entries nrs. 97-110. In The Object as Mediator: On the Transcendental Meaning of Art in Traditional Cultures , ed. Mireille Holsbeke, pp. 131, 133, 135-138, 140-142, exh. cat., Ethnographic Museum, Antwerp, 1996. Also published in a Dutch edition.

  • Entries nrs. 106-122. In Treasures from the Africa-Museum, Tervuren , eds. Gustaaf Verswijver et al., pp. 329-335, 400, exh. cat., Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, 1995. Also published in a Dutch and a French edition.

  • Face of the Spirits: Masks from the Zaire Basin , exh. cat., Martial & Snoeck, Ghent (Annals of the Royal Museum for Central Africa [Tervuren], Human Sciences, 140), 1993. Co-editor, with Frank Herreman, and author of “Pende Mask Styles” [pp. 63-76] and entries nrs. 19-33, 43-54, 56, 78-92, 100-106, 109-113. Also published in a Dutch edition. (261 p.)

  • Wooden Masks of the Kasai Pende , Ghent University (Working Papers in Ethnic Art, 6), 1992. (33 p.)

  • “Gipogo et Pumbu a mfumu : masques du pouvoir cheffal chez les Pende du Kasaï.” Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia da Universidade de São Paulo 2 (1992): 75-89.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

  • Corresponding Member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences, since 2003

  • Overseas Exhibition Review Editor and Consulting Editor of the journal African Arts , published by the University of California, Los Angeles, since 2001

  • Co-editor of the journal Working Papers in Ethnic Art/Werkdocumenten over Etnische Kunst , published by the Department of Ethnic Art at Ghent University, since 1998