rpoynor@ufl.edu

EDUCATION
B.A.: 1965, Southeastern Louisiana University, Art
B.F.A.: 1966, San Francisco Art Institute, Studio Art
M.A.: 1970, Indiana University, Art History
Ph.D.: 1978, Indiana University, Art History
Dissertation Title: The Ancestral Arts of Owo, Nigeria

MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming: Review of The Scramble for Art in Central Africa. By Enid Schildkrout and Curtis A. Keim, eds., reviewed for Transforming Anthropology.
2002: Review of Art, Innovation, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Benin, by Paula Girshick Ben-Amos, reviewed for African Art.
2000: A History of Art in Africa. (Co-written with H. Cole and M. Visona) for Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York. 544 pp., 700 ill. (Paperback distributed by Prentice-Hall). (Named to "Best Books of 2000," Library Journal; Nominated for Arnold Rubin Award, ACASA, 2001, received Honorable Mention.)
"The Arts of Personal Devotion in African Religion," in Intimate Rituals and Personal Devotions: Spiritual Art Through the Ages, Larry Perkins (editor), Gainesville: Harn Museum of Art, pp. 37-53.
1995: African Art at the Harn Museum: SPIRIT EYES, HUMAN HANDS, Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

EXHIBITIONS
1997-98: African Art from the Harn Museum: Masks and Masquerades, Florida Gulf Coast Art Center.
1997-98: From the face of the Gods: Art from African Altars, Reitz Union Gallery.
1992-98: Spirit Eyes, Human Hands, Traveling Exhibition of African materials from the Harn collection, Guest Curator--selection of objects, research, advising on installation, etc. (Opened Fall 1994, Cummer Gallery, Polk County Museum of Art, Museum of Art, University of Georgia) Two year installation, Harn Museum. (Telfair Museum, Savannah, Ga, 1998.)

RECENT RESEARCH AWARDS
2002: Scholarship Enhancement Award (for work on preparation of Africa in Florida.)
2001: A History of Art in Africa, Honorable Mention, Arnold Rubin Book Award competition
2001: A History of Art in Africa named to Best Books of 2000 List by Library Journal.
2000: Scholarship Enhancement Award (for archival research in Washington, D.C. and New York.)
1999: Scholarship Enhancement Award (for archival research in England, Belgium, and France.)