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Olubukola Gbadegesin
Instructor, Department of Art History

220 Arts Building
University Park, PA 16802
(814) 865-4883
oag2@psu.edu

Education
A.B.D. in art history (Emory University)
B.A in history of art (Cornell University)

Ms. Gbadegesin is a visiting faculty member at Penn State for 2007-08 and teaches courses in classical, and contemporary African Art and the arts of the African Diaspora. She is currently an advanced Ph.D. candidate at Emory University where she has taught surveys and upper-level undergraduate courses. Ms. Gbadegesin has contributed to exhibitions at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University, the Georgetown University Special Collections, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University. At the 2005 conference of the College Art Association, she presented a paper entitled “The intersection of modern art, anthropology, and international politics in colonial Nigeria, 1910-1914.” Currently, she is writing her dissertation entitled “Picturing the Modern: Politics, Identity and Self-fashioning in Lagos, Nigeria, 1861-1944,” which explores the emergence of portrait painting and studio photography in Nigeria.

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