Professor Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie has received a Guggenheim Foundation award for a book project titled The Curator as Culture Broker: Representing Africa in Global Contemporary Art. The book uses historiographical, art historical and social network analysis to interrogate how African artists and artworks are represented in the global discourse of contemporary art. The Guggenheim Fellowship award brings attention to Professor Ogbechie's research on Africa's role in the global history of modern and contemporary art.