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Anna V. Andrzejewski
Barbara C. Buenger
Nicholas D. Cahill
Jill H. Casid
Thomas E.A. Dale
Henry J. Drewal
Gail L. Geiger
Jane C. Hutchison
Nancy Rose Marshall
Ann Smart Martin
Narciso G. Menocal
Nancy Marie Mithlo
Julia K. Murray
Quitman E. (Gene) Phillips
Dan Fuller
Ethan Lasser
Russell Panczenko
Preeti Chopra
Michael McClure

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Henry J. Drewal
Evjue-Bascom Professor

Contact information:
Office: 229 Elvehjem
Phone: 608-263-9362
E-mail: hjdrewal@wisc.edu


Office hours:
Tuesdays 1:00-3:00 and by appointment
Henry Drewal
Education:
B.A. Hamilton College, 1964
M.A. Certificate of African Studies, Columbia University
Ph.D. Columbia University, 1973

Curriculum Vitae


Areas of Research and Teaching:
African and African Diaspora art history

On faculty since 1990.

Courses taught:

  • 241 Introduction to African Art and Architecture
  • 377 African Art: Paleolithic to the Rise of West African Empires
  • 378 African Art: W. African Empires to the Start of the Colonial Era
  • 412 Topics in African Art & African Diaspora: Brazil & Haiti
  • 479 Art and History in Africa
  • 579 Proseminar in African Art (Recent Topics: "Beads, Body & Soul"; "Art & Performance: Masking"; "African Masking & Senses")
  • 601/602 Introduction to Museum Studies I and II: Exhibiting Africa
  • 701 Practicum in Art History: Bibliography, Historiography, Methods
  • 879 Seminar in African Art: Diaspora Dynamics
  • Afro-American Studies 277 Africa: An Introductory Survey
  • Afro-American Studies 643 Selected Topics in African Diaspora Art History

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Selected publications:

Beads, Body and Soul: Art and Light in the Yoruba Universe (Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1998)
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The Yoruba Artist: New Theoretical Perspectives on African Arts. Smithsonian Institution Press with the support of the Societé Suisse d'Études Africaines and the Rietberg Museum, Switzerland (1994)
Yoruba Art and Aesthetics (Zurich: Rietberg Museum, 1991)
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Gelede: Art and Female Power Among the Yoruba, with Margaret Thompson Drewal (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983, 2nd Edition, 1990)
Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought, with John Pemberton III and Rowland Abiodun (New York: Alfred Knopf and The Center for African Art, 1989)
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