Contributors
- Contributors
Mary Jo Arnoldi is Curator for African Ethnology and Arts in the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. She is received her PhD in Art History from Indiana University in 1983. She is the author of Playing With Time: Art and Performance in Central Mali Indiana University Press, 1995] and co-editor and contributor to African Material Culture [Indiana University Press, 1996]. She has published numerous articles on art and society in Mali and on historic museum collections of African material culture. She was the lead curator on the permanent exhibition African Voices which opened at the Smithsonian in 1999 and has curated a number of temporary African exhibits.
Suzanne Gott is Assistant Professor of Art History in the Department of Visual and Aboriginal Arts at Brandon University, Manitoba. She received her Ph.D. in African Art History from Indiana University, Bloomington, in 2002, and her Ph.D. in Folklore from Indiana University, Bloomington, in 1994. Her research focuses on women's visual culture, performative display, and the urban environment in Ghana's Ashanti Region of Ghana, with a special interest in the historical and contemporary dynamics of performative display within the urban environment.
Joanna Grabski is Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Denison University. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from Indiana University in 2001. She has published several articles on artists and collectors in Dakar, Senegal and Brazzaville, Congo. She is currently working on a book manuscript dealing with contemporary art and art institutions in Dakar.
Federico Freschi received his PhD in History of Art from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, where he currently holds a position as Senior Lecturer at the Wits School of Arts. His research interests center around South African modern art and architecture, and particularly on constructions of national identity as expressed in architectural ornament in the inter-World War period.
Jonathan Haynes is Professor of English at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University. He received his Ph.D. in English from Yale University in 1980. He is the author of The Humanist as Traveler (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1986) and The Social Relations of Jonson's Theater (Cambridge University Press, 1992) the co-author (with Onookome Okome) [End Page 161] of Cinema and Social Change in West Africa (Nigerian Film Corporation, 1995) and the editor of Nigerian Video Films (Ohio University Press, 2000). He has published numerous articles on Nigerian and Ghanaian video films, and numerous others are forthcoming.
Carol Magee is Assistant Professor of African Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is currently working on a book manuscript, Africa in the American Imagination, in which she examines the ways in which African art and culture appear in American culture (such as advertisements, Barbie, Disney) and the myriad meanings and social relations generated in these instances.
Allen F. Roberts is trained in Anthropology and a Professor of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA. MARY NOOTER ROBERTS holds a PhD in Art History and is Deputy Director of the Fowler Museum at UCLA. The Robertses conduct research, write, and create thematic museum exhibitions together that concern African visual arts. The present paper is based upon ongoing research that began in Senegal in 1994 and has led to the major traveling exhibition and book A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal (2003), as previewed at www.fowler.ucla.edu/passporttoparadise.htm. The New York Times hailed the "Saint in the City" exhibition as one of the ten best of 2003 on any topic at any U.S. museum, while the accompanying book won the African Studies Association's 2003 Herskovits Prize and the Arnold Rubin Award as the best African art book of 2001-2003. [End Page 162]
