Cécile Fromont
Cécile Fromont is an art historian specialising on the visual, material, and religious cultures of Africa, Latin America, and Europe in the early modern period (1500-1800). Born and raised in Martinique, her ancestors came to the island from Africa, South Asia, and Burgundy.
She graduated from Sciences-Po Paris before receiving her MA and PhD from Harvard. Her scholarship sheds light on the cross-cultural ebbs and flows that unfolded during this period across and around the Atlantic Ocean. She centres her research and writing on African expressive, spiritual, and material cultures and their ramifications in Latin America and Europe, demonstrating how the often violent, but vital connections between the three continents gave contours to the early modern world and continue to shape our own times.
Beyond academia, Fromont collaborates internationally with museums and other public-facing institutions on publications, exhibitions, and programming aimed at broad audiences. She lends her expertise to news stories and media productions in venues such as Netflix, NPR, PBS, Arte, the New York Times, and Le Monde.
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