students at Amherst now identify as students of color. According to the college, about 49% of U.S. In a recent phone call, Shah said part of the appeal of coming to Amherst stems from the significant effort the college has made in the past two decades to bring students of color, and especially students of lesser economic means, to campus.

Michael Kunichika, who directs the Amherst Center for Russian Culture and also teaches Russian at the college, has served as the Mead’s interim director since Little’s departure.

Shah, who received a bachelor’s degree in art history from Johns Hopkins University and a doctorate in art history from Columbia University, takes over the position after former Mead Director David Little left about a year ago to direct the International Center of Photography in New York City. Now Shah, who grew up in suburban Chicago, will look to build some connections in the Valley and at Amherst College in particular: He’s been appointed the new director of the school’s Mead Art Museum. “But in Salem, you have this sense of deep roots … there are people here who can trace their families back over 350 years.” “My sense of identity has not really been connected to a particular location or region, because I’ve lived all over,” he said.

It’s in New England that he’s first experienced a real sense of place, says Shah, the curator and director of education and civic engagement at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem. Shah has lived, worked and traveled in a wide range of places over the years: Chicago, Baltimore and San Francisco New York and London India, France and Belgium and most recently, New England.

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