Peter Probst
Research/Areas of Interest
African Arts, Art history and Anthropology, Museum and Heritage Studies, History of Fields and Ideas
Education
- Habilitation, University of Bayreuth, Germany, 2001
- Dr. phil., Free University of Berlin, Germany, 1990
- M.Phil., Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1984
- M.A., Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 1983
Biography
Peter Probst's teaching and research are thoroughly interdisciplinary, located at the intersection between art history and anthropology. His areas of specialty include the visual cultures of modern Africa and its diasporas, critical museum and heritage studies in a global frame, and modern and contemporary African art. Professor Probst has received numerous grants, awards, and fellowships, among others from the German Research Foundation, the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, the Institute of Cultural Research in Vienna, Tisch College, the Tufts European Center at Talloires, and the Advanced Studies Center in Hamburg,