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Andrea Frohne has spent her career investigating the visual landscape of African culture, arts, cinema, and space. Her 2015 book, The African Burial Ground in New York City: Memory, Spirituality, and Space, explores the visuality of New York City鈥檚 African Burial Ground, a 6.7-acre swath in lower Manhattan where more than 15,000 mostly enslaved Africans and African-Americans were buried throughout the 18^th century.

Frohne, an associate professor of art history who holds joints appointments in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts, the School of Art + Design, and African Studies, shared some of her life, work, and worldview with Ohio Today.

What鈥檚 your earliest memory?
I remember my newborn sister coming home from the hospital, and I remember a wall-sized Max Ernst painting that hangs in Mies van der Rohe鈥檚 Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.

You just got home from a trip 鈥� what鈥檚 the first thing you do?
Begin working.

List some books that have changed your life.
Edward Said鈥檚 Culture and Imperialism and E.M. Forster鈥檚 Room with a View. From early on, I can say the Nancy Drew detective series.

What do you like to do on a rainy day?
Listen to music from Mali and look at art books about German Expressionism.

What鈥檚 the one food you could never bring yourself to eat?
Marmite.

What鈥檚 the most beautiful place you鈥檝e ever been?
The edge of the Sahara Desert in southeast Morocco, the train ride between Sienna and Florence through Tuscany, and the train ride across the Norwegian Arctic Circle.

What鈥檚 your favorite smell in the whole world?
Rocky Mountain pine trees

Which of the Seven Dwarfs is most like you?
Happy, because I am.