Cynthia Becker

Cynthia Becker

Associate Professor, College of Arts & Sciences, Boston University

Boston University College of Arts & Sciences

Cynthia Becker (BA, University of New Orleans; MA, PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison) is associate professor of African art history in the history of art & architecture department at Boston University. Her book Amazigh Arts in Morocco: Women Shaping Berber Identity (University of Texas Press, 2006) won a Choice Book Award in 2007. She has written numerous articles about such topics as the Sahara as a cultural and artistic zone, Amazigh identity politics, contemporary art in the Maghreb, Black Indians in New Orleans, as well as counter-monuments to the Confederacy in New Orleans (her hometown). Her latest book, Blackness in Morocco: Gnawa Identity through Music and Visual Culture, was published by the University of MN Press in November 2020.

Areas of Expertise

  • History of Art

Methodology

  • Archival Methods
  • Ethnographic Methods
  • Interviews
  • Visual analysis