Faculty Profile: John Peffer
Associate Professor of Contemporary / Nonwestern Art History
Year Joined RCNJ: 2009
Contact Information:
- Phone: (201) 684-6223
- E-mail: jpeffer@ramapo.edu
- Office: A-201
- Office Hours: M 2:30-5:30
Education:
- B.A. Indiana University, Bloomington
- M.A., M. Phil., Ph.D. Columbia University, NY
Courses Offered:
- 20th Century Histories and Concepts
- Introduction to Nonwestern Art Traditions
- History of Photography
- Africa and Cinema
- Africa and Photography
- Modernity and Art in Africa
- Images and Human Rights
- Iconoclasm
Awards and Special Recognition:
- Creative Capital/ Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Award
- College Art Association Millard Meiss award
- Charles Rufus Morey book award nominee for Art and the End of Apartheid
- Fulbright IIE grant for research in South Africa.
Recent Scholarly and Professional Accomplishments:
- Book: Art and the End of Apartheid (University of Minnesota, 2009)
- Journal Essay: "Snap of the Whip/Crossroads of Shame: Flogging, Photography, and the Representation of Atrocity in the Congo Reform Campaign," Visual Anthropology Review 24, 1 (2008).
- Catalogue Essay: "Mandela Rides a Casspir" in Through African Eyes: The European in African Art, 1500 to Present ed. Nii O. Quarcoopome (Detroit Institute of Arts, 2010).
- Editor and cofounder of the peer-reviewed journal Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture (2007—present)
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CA Office
Location
Office: BC237
Phone: (201) 684-7368
Fax: (201) 684-7481
Dean
Steven Perry
E-mail: sperry@ramapo.edu
Hours
Fall / Spring:
Mon. - Fri., 8:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Summer:
Mon. - Thurs., 8:00 - 5:15 p.m.
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