Kongo across the Waters

Susan Cooksey is the Curator of African Art at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida. She has curated a number of original exhibitions on African, Oceanic, and ancient American art. Her recent publications include: Africa Interweave: Textile Diasporas, Harn Museum of Art (2011) and “Double Images in Win Divination and the Negotiation of Spirit-Human Identities,” in Twins in African and Diaspora Cultures, ed. Philip M. Peek (2011). secook@ufl.edu

Robin Poynor teaches the arts of Africa and of Oceania in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Florida. He is the coauthor of A History of African Art, written with Monica Blackmun Visoná and Herbert M. Cole (2000, revised 2008). His current book project, Africa in Florida: Five Hundred Years of African Presence in the Sunshine State, is coedited with Amanda Carlson (forthcoming, 2013). rpoynor@arts.ufl.edu

Hein Vanhee works as a museum curator at the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren in Belgium. Over the past six years he has developed the division of Collection Management within the department of Anthropology and History. He has published articles on Kongo history, Kongo art, colonial history, colonial literature, and collection management. hein.vanhee@africamuseum.be