Teaching
Talia has taught courses on historical and contemporary art from Africa and the African Diaspora, as well as courses on museums, collections, and historical sites in Africa, and on African art collections held outside the African continent.
Final presentations and exhibition for “African Objects and Archives in Museums,” Photo by Talia Lieber, Skidmore College, December 2025.
Undergraduate Courses
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
2026
African Photography (Spring)
On View in Africa: Collections, Museums, and Exhibitions on the African Continent (Spring)
African Masks: Art & Performance (Spring)
2025
African Objects and Archives in Museums (Fall)
Ways of Seeing: The Arts of Africa (Fall)
Guest Lectures
2022
“Cattle Visions: The Creation and Collection of Art in the Kingdom of Rwanda,” Centre for Anthropological Research on Affect and Materiality (CARAM) and UGent Centre for Bantu Studies (BantUGent), Ghent, Belgium.
2020
“The Site and Collection History of the Rwanda Art Museum,” On View in Africa: Exhibitions and Museums on the Continent, UCLA Department of Art History.
Public Talks
2023
“Collecting Rwanda,” MASS Design Group, Kigali, Rwanda
2022
“Collections of Art in Rwanda,” Accessing Heritage-Digital Interventions through Art and Archives in Rwanda, Digital Heritage Month, Goethe-Institut, Kigali, Rwanda
“Research Notes: Objects and Images from Rwanda in Belgian Archives and Collections,” The Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, California
“Objects and Images from Rwanda in the Smithsonian Institution's Collections,” Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C.
Podcast Appearances
2024
U.S. Department of Education, Go Global ED Podcast, “Episode 14 – Fulbright-Hays DDRA with Talia Lieber.”