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Caroline Angle Maguire is a historian and provenance researcher at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art (NMAfA). She conducts provenance research across NMAfA's historic African art collections as part of the broader Smithsonian pursuit of Shared Stewardship and Ethical Returns. Maguire holds a PhD in history from the University of Maryland, College Park. She is particularly interested in the histories of African museums and cultural institutions during political decolonization, and she has published research in the African Studies Review, the Journal of West African History, and the Journal of Contemporary History.

Presented with the Fairfield University Art Museum and Art History and Visual Culture Program

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