Cécile Fromont  Cécile Fromont is an associate professor of art history at Yale University. She previously taught at the University of Chicago. She is a specialist in the visual, material, and religious culture of the Portuguese-speaking Atlantic world during the early modern period. She received her Diplôme from Sciences Po in Paris, in 2002, her A.M. from Harvard University in 2004, and her Ph.D. from Harvard in 2008.