One of the founding members of the Slavery and Visual Culture Working Group, Cécile Fromont, has just published Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition (Penn State University Press), an edited volume about how enslaved and free Africans in the Americas used Catholicism and Christian-derived celebrations as spaces for autonomous cultural expression, social organization, and political empowerment.

The volume includes contributions by Junia Ferreira Furtado, Miguel A. Valerio, Lisa Voigt, and Kevin Dawson. Cécile Fromont is Associate Professor of History of Art at Yale University. She is also the author of the award-winning book The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo.