Suzanne P. Blier

Suzanne P. Blier

Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies
Suzanne Blier

Suzanne Preston Blier (Ph.D. 1981 Columbia, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University) is an historian of African art and architecture in both the History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies Departments. She also is a member of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science.

Her most recent book projects include the forthcoming1325: How Medieval Africa Made the World Modern (Yale University Press 2021) and Picasso’s Demoiselles: The True Origins of a Modern Art Masterpiece (Duke University Press 2019), selected for the 2019 Wall Street Journal arts book holiday list and a finalist for the 2020 Prose Prize in Art History and Criticism. Her other books include Les asen: mémoires de fer forge dans l’art vodoun du Dahomey (Geneva: Ides et Calendes. Jan. 2019), The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art co-edited with David Bindman and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2017 Harvard University Press) and The Art of Jazz: Form/Performance/Notes. co-edited with David Bindman and Vera Ingrid Grant (2017 Harvard University Press).