Raymond Silverman

Raymond Silverman, a historian of the visual cultures of Africa, is professor emeritus of History of Art, African Studies, and Museum Studies at University of Michigan. His research and writing explore historical and contemporary visual practices in Ethiopia, Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, and museum and heritage discourse in Africa. Silverman’s recent work focuses on the visual culture of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: Ethiopian Church Art: Painters, Patrons, Purveyors (2022). Additional publications include a special issue of Ghana Studies titled, Looking Back, Looking Forward: Visual Art Studies in Ghana (2022), National Museums in Africa: Identity, History and Politics (2021), Museum as Process: Translating Local and Global Knowledges (2015), Painting Ethiopia: The Life and Work of Qes Adamu Tesfaw (2005), and Ethiopia: Traditions of Creativity (1999).