Amanda Maples

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Graduate Student and Independent Scholar
Affiliation	University of California, Santa Cruz
Email	maplesboyer@gmail.com
Mailing Address	540 W 8th St Davis, California 95616
Phone/Fax Number(s)	919-306-9616
Countries of Specialization	Sierra Leone, Guinea, Senegal, Mali
Education	09/2017 (expected) University of California Santa Cruz, CA * PH.D.: VISUAL STUDIES 09/2004 University of Kent Canterbury, UK * MASTER OF ARTS: VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY With Merit 07/2001 University of NC at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC * BACHELOR OF ARTS: ANTHROPOLOGY With Distinction 07-08/2001 University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, S. Africa * FIELD SCHOOL IN ARCHAEOLOGY 06/1997 Havelock High School Havelock, NC * DIPLOMA: GENERAL With Honors
Research Interests	performative arts of Africa, history of collecting African art, materiality, visual anthropology, visual studies, representation of the arts of Africa in museums, youth and performance, politics and masked performance
Publications	The Gelbard Collection of African Postcards, Publisher TBA, (author, forthcoming, 2014) Refined Eye, Passionate Heart: African Art from the Leslie Sacks Collection, Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Skira Publishing (editor and contributor, August, 2013) Transformations: The African Art of Change, Tennessee State Museum, (contributing editor, July 2012) Accumulating Histories: African Art from the Charles B. Benenson Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT (co-author, May 2012) Dancing with D’mba: Icon of Beauty and Power in West Africa, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT (research and film editing, forthcoming) Where the Camel Meets the Canoe: Timbuktu’s Rediscovered Past, May 2009 (cover photo, accompanying photos, research) http://publications.pasthorizons.tv/?id=pasthorizonsmay09
Keywords	africa, african art, sierra leone, ode-lay, oje, masked performance, museum representation