Christraud M. Geary

Christraud M. Geary (born 1946) is a German-born American cultural anthropologist, scholar in African studies and art curator. She served as curator for the photographic archives at the National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C. and until her retirement in 2013 as the first curator of African and Oceanic art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

In her research, Geary has investigated African art with a special focus on Cameroon as well as early photography in sub-Saharan Africa. She has curated public exhibitions and published catalogs about historical photographs from various regions of Africa. Her contributions to the study of historical and other photographs as valuable sources for African history have emphasized their importance for understanding cultural and social contexts.