Scott Rodolitz has been a career Anthropologist and Art Historian for nearly 40 years. He is a well-respected expert and appraiser in the field of Ethnographic Arts. He began his career as an intern at the original Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation when it was in Morningside Heights. Later, he went on to become one of the youngest New York City Gallery directors in the 1980s.
In the early 1990s, he relocated to St. Petersburg, Russia, where he was accepted into the doctoral program at the “Kunstkamera,” Russian Academy of Sciences, and was elected as one of the first American members of the St. Petersburg Union of Scientists and Scholars. He was the President of Man’s Heritage Press, which worked to translate and publish Anthropological works by Russian authors into English. He was also the Assistant Editor of the St. Petersburg Journal of African Studies. After returning to the U.S. and starting a family, he became the first Global Director of the African and Oceanic Art Department at Bonhams in their New York City main office.
Mr. Rodolitz is a certified appraiser of African, Oceanic, Himalayan, and Native American Art and serves as the president of Rodolitz Appraisal and Consulting Services. He is the author of numerous books and journal articles, many of which he co-authored with the late Dr. Arthur P. Bourgeois, for whom he was primary research assistant. Mr. Rodolitz and his family reside in New England.