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Mailing Address Art of Africa, Africa America, and the Diaspora Department of Art and Art History James Madison University Harrisonburg, Virginia 22802 USA

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Research Interests Education: May 1999 M.A., Art History, Department of Art and Art History, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Thesis: John Walker: The Dialectic of Opposites. December 1996 B.F.A., Painting, Kansas City Art Institute Ph.D. Dissertation: "A Child of Its Time: Bangwa Influences in the Work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner." My field of interest is the African influences in the New World. I use three academic disciplines to teach art of the African Diaspora; art history, history, and anthropology. Religion is an inherent component of all three disciplines.

Teaching Interests When teaching and learning about African art these disciplines have to be used to reach an appropriate cultural context. Westerners understand their own cultural elements through personal experience. However, when learning about another culture we have to educate the student in all facets of these elements to understand the art. (...)

Publications * 2002 "Kirchner and the Bangwa Queen," Transatlantic Studies Conference, Dundee University and Baylor University, Dundee, Scotland, July 2002. 2002 "A Child of Its Time: Bangwa Influences in the Work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner", 2nd Annual Harvard Conference on International History, Spring 2002 2001 "Imagination and Vision", International Voice, Spring 2001, University of Missouri-Kansas City 2000 Web Site: Rachel Malcolm-Woods Interdisciplinary Scholar, Ethnographic Research in Cote d'Ivoire: "Visiting the Baule, Senufo and Dan Cultures" (http://www.umkc.edu/is/mts/woods/) and 10 videos of Divinations and Dances. 2000 Cover and four paintings with a narrative, in Number One: Literary Journal for UMKC. University of Missouri Press, Kansas City. 2000 Book Cover: House of Bishops. A chronology of the Episcopal Bishops of the Diocese of West Missouri. 1998- Artist’s Statement, Five Paintings and Curriculum Vitae, in Leonardo Arts and Sciences Journal: Virtual Africa (http:// www.cyberworkers.com/Leonardo/Africa/ponts/woods 1998 "The Leedy-Volkus Summer Show", in Forum Magazine, Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, Missouri (June issue)

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