Elizabeth Giorgis, Influential Scholar Who Left a Banking Job to Study African Modernism, Dies at 68

Elizabeth Giorgis, Influential Scholar Who Left a Banking Job to Study African Modernism, Dies at 68

Elizabeth Giorgis, a scholar who left her banking job to study African modernism and Ethiopian art history, and went on to become one of the preeminent experts in her field, died on March 16 in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. She was 68 years old. The Africa Institute of Global Studies University, where she chaired the humanities department, announced her passing last week but did not specify a cause. Salah M. Hassan, dean of the Africa Institu…