Dana Liljegren

Dana Liljegren is a PhD Candidate in Art History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her specializations and topics of in­terest include West African art, global contemporary art, postcolonial theory, environmentalism, and film studies. She holds degrees in art history from Brown University, Columbia University, and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. After beginning graduate studies in Modern Art and focus­ing on Conceptual art, film, and photography, her current research concentrates on francophone Africa and pays special attention to materiality and the circulation of objects under condi­tions of postcolonialism. She is currently Co-Editor of Shift: Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture, a peer-reviewed publication of graduate student writing and creative projects.