Zack Martin
PhD Candidate: Heritage Studies & Central African Art History
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Zack Martin is a PhD Candidate in Art History specializing in the study of Heritage as well as the arts and histories of Central Africa. As an instructor and proponent of introductory survey courses covering the history of art-making practices on our planet, he is passionate about the chronologies, themes, and narratives that have fueled how we collectively talk about art in history. As a student of institutions and heritage, he is seeking to contribute to conversations about cultural technologies of exhibition, about how objects become art, and about how collectives engage with the past in the era of the Anthropocene. His dissertation will focus on the AfricaMuseum in Tervuren, Belgium, and how that institution continues to shape the conditions and definitions of heritage—African, European, and planetary.