FACULTY AWARD: Okeke-Agulu wins Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism

By Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications on Jan. 12, 2016, 11 a.m.

Chika Okeke-Agulu, associate professor of art and archaeology and African American studies, has been awarded the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism from the College Art Association (CAA) for his book "Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in 20th-Century Nigeria" (Duke University Press, 2015). The award, given for significant published art criticism that has appeared in publication in a one-year period, is named in honor of art critic and scholar Mather, who came to Princeton in 1910 from Johns Hopkins University as the first Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology, and became the director of the Princeton University Art Museum in 1922. Okeke-Agulu will accept the award at the CAA annual convention on Feb. 3 in Washington, D.C.

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