Suzanne Preston Blier
Suzanne Preston Blier is the Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University where she is a member of both the History of Art and Architecture Department and of the African and African American Studies Department. She has authored numerous award winning books and articles on African Art and Architecture as well as related fields. She is a member of the Center for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard and a Faculty Associate of the Mellon Urban Initiative. Blier is a past member of the Collège de France International Scientific and Strategic Committee. She is a former President of the College Art Association and a former Board Member of the Society for Architectural Historians. Blier currently serves as Clerk and Board Member of the National Committee for the History of Art. She is also a Board Member and Chair of the Executive Committee of Delegates, for the American Council of Learned Societies, for which she is also the College Art Association Representative. She earned her Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and her B.A. from the University of Vermont.
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Co-Curated with Prof. Sarah E. Lewis
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BOOKS AND CATALOGUES
In 2011, two of Blier's articles, "Imaging Otherness in Ivory: African Portrayals of the Portuguese ca. 1492" and "Kings, Crowns and Rights of Succession: Obalufon Arts in Ife and Other Yoruba Centers" were selected for inclusion in The Centennial Anthology of the Art Bulletin comprising the 33 top articles over the journal's 100-year history. Blier was one of only three art historians (along with Meyer Shapiro and Leo Steinberg) to have two articles included. In 2015 she was honored with a Yoruba chieftaincy. In 2021 she was elected to the American Academy of Art and Sciences.
TEACHING AND MENtORING
Among the undergraduate and graduate students I have mentoredwho have gone on to become professionals in the field are (from HARVARD UNIVERSITY): Jody Benjamin, Aimee Bessire, Randall Bird, Alexander Bortolot, Kyrah Daniels, Mark Delancey, Mark Duerksen, Lauri Firstenberg, Cecile Fromont, Janet Hess, Genevieve Hyacinthe, Christina Knight, Sarah Lewis, Jessica Levin Martinez, Leora Maltz, Prita (Sandy) Meyer, Erin Moseley, Steven Nelson, Jennifer Peruski, Imani Roach, Gemma Rodrigues, Delelia Scruggs, Ruth Simbao, Theresa Sims, Jessica Williams Stark, Kevin Tervala, Rebecca Van Driver, Kristina Van Dyke, and Grete Viddal; (from COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY): Anne Allen, Anne d'Alleva, Florina Capistrano, Alisa Lagamma, Dominique Malaquais, John Peffer, Mary Nooter Roberts, Lynn Spriggs, Sarah Travis, Virginia Lee Webb, Gary Van Wyk.
