Cécile Fromont

Cécile Fromont
Born	Cécile Alice Fromont Martinique
Occupation(s)	Art historian Educator
Academic background
Alma mater	Harvard University
Thesis	Under the Sign of the Cross in the Kingdom of Kongo: Shaping Images and Molding Faith in Early Modern Central Africa (2008)
Doctoral advisor	Suzanne Blier and Thomas B. F. Cummins
Academic work
Discipline	Art history
Sub-discipline	African art
Institutions	University of Michigan University of Chicago Yale University
Website	www.cecilefromont.com

Cécile Alice Fromont is a French-born American art historian and educator. Fromont is currently Professor of African and South Atlantic Art at Yale University.

Career

Born in Martinique, Fromont initially received a degree from Sciences Po in International Relations in 2002. She then continued on to Harvard University to receive degrees in Art History: a Master of Arts in 2004 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 2008. She wrote a doctoral dissertation under Suzanne Blier and Thomas B. F. Cummins titled "Under the Sign of the Cross in the Kingdom of Kongo: Shaping Images and Molding Faith in Early Modern Central Africa."

Upon graduating, Fromont began teaching at the University of Michigan as Assistant Professor of Art History in 2008. Two years later, she transferred to the University of Chicago. In 2017, Fromont was promoted to Associate Professor. In the following year, she was hired by Yale University, and also became a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.

Fromont is a specialist in the visual, material, and religious culture of the Portuguese-speaking Atlantic world during the early modern period.

See also

• List of Harvard University people
• List of fellows of the American Academy in Rome (2011–present)
• List of University of Chicago faculty
• List of University of Michigan faculty and staff

External links

• Official website
• Yale University profile