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Janet Berry Hess

Professor of Art History/African and Diasporic Studies

Janet Hess
Janet Berry Hess

Contact

janet.hess@sonoma.edu

Office

Carson Hall 52

Education

Ph.D., Art History Harvard University M.A., Art History Columbia University J.D. University of Iowa College of Law B.A. University of Iowa

Selected Publications & Presentations

Books

 Digital Mapping: Indigenous America Routledge, 2021 

Osage and Settler: Reconstructing Shared History Through an Oklahoma Family Archive McFarland & Company, 2015

The Art of Richard Mayhew: A Critical Analysis with Interviews McFarland & Company, 2014

 Art and Architecture in Postcolonial Africa McFarland & Company, 2006

Book Chapters

Liberation-Era Architecture in Ghana: Nkrumah, Nationalism, and Modernity Sub-Saharan Africa Architectural Guide, DOM Publishers, 2021 

Nkrumah/Lumumba: Representations of Masculinity African Intellectuals and Decolonization, Ohio University Press

 An Irrational Eschatology: Nkrumahism, Post-Nkrumahism, and the Discourse of Modernity Contemporary Issues in African Art, University of Binghamton Press, 1988