Martin Kern and Chika Okeke-Agulu receive Behrman Award for the Humanities

Princeton professors Martin Kern and Chika Okeke-Agulu have received the University’s Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities, which “recognizes extraordinary faculty distinction in humanities and publication; in teaching and advising; and in humanities-related University service.”

Chika Okeke-Agulu, the Robert Schirmer Professor of Art and Archaeology and African American Studies and the founding director of Princeton’s Africa World Initiative, joined the faculty in 2008. 

An art historian, art critic, published poet, curator and practicing artist from Nigeria whose works are held in museum collections in the U.S., Germany and Nigeria, Okeke-Agulu’s research focuses on indigenous, modern and contemporary African and African diaspora art history.