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Amanda H. Hellman
Amanda H. Hellman is a Curator of African Art at the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University. Her research into West and East Africa has revealed how heritage formation and artistic practice are inextricably linked. She obtained a Ph.D. from Emory University where she completed her dissertation on museum development in Nigeria. Most recently she has published ‘Die and Do: Egungun as a Form of Resistance and Recovery’, in Visible Man: Fahamu Pecou (Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, 2018) and ‘To Store Is to Save: Kenneth C. Murray and the Founding of the Nigerian Museum, Lagos’, in the volume Museum Storage and Meaning (Routledge, 2017).