Alisa LaGamma is the Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer Curator of the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1]
She received her PhD from
Columbia University in 1995 for a dissertation titled "The Art of the Punu Mukudj Masquerade: Portrait of an Equatorial Society", for which she carried out a year of fieldwork in southern Gabon.
In 1998, she was a guest editor for "
African Arts" journal.
In 2012, she received the Iris Award for Outstanding Scholarship of the
Bard Graduate Center in recognition of her contribution to rethinking the history of sub-Saharan African art and culture.[2]