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Naurice Frank Woods, Jr.
200 Foust Building
The University of North Carolina Greensboro
(336) 334-3889
EDUCATION
The Union Institute Graduate School, Cincinnati, Ph.D. in Art History 1993; Dissertation: Insuperable Obstacles: The Impact of Racism on the Creative and Personal Development of Four Nineteenth-Century African American Artists.
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Post Graduate
Study in Fine Arts, 1978
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, M.F.A. Sculpture and Painting
1978
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.F.A. Sculpture and Painting; 1975
1995- University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Director and Program Chair, African American Studies Program
1994- University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Interim Director, African-American Studies Program
1989-1994 University of North Carolina at Greensboro, African-American Studies Program Lecturer. Courses Taught: African American Art History, Portrayal of African-Americans in Art and Film.
1987-1993 Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, North Carolina, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art. Adjunct Instructor of Art (1987-1988). Courses Taught: Survey of Art History, Art Appreciation.
1991- Greensboro College, Greensboro, North Carolina,
Assistant Professor of Art.
Courses Taught: Painting I, II, III, IV; Design; African-American Art History,
Introduction to Visual Arts.
SELECTED MAJOR LECTURES
"The Relationship Between Henry O. Tanner's African American Genre Paintings and the Black Image in 19th Century American Art" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Tanner Exhibition.
"The Creation of Henry O. Tanner's The Banjo Lesson" at Hampton University's centennial celebration for the painting.
"Thomas Hovenden and Henry O. Tanner: Philadelphia Painters of the African-American Experience" at the Woodmere Museum of Art, Philadelphia.
The Evolution of African American Art Prior to the Harlem Renaissance" at Lynchburg College for the symposium, Expanding Visions for Virginia Black Artists.
Designed or redesigned core African American Studies courses at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro including, The Portrayal of African Americans in Film, African American Art History, Special Topics in African American Studies, and The African American Athlete.
Consulted on documentary on Henry O. Tanner for
the Tanner Film Group.
Consulted on the restoration of an Aaron Douglas mural for Bennett College.
Consulted on the works of Henry O. Tanner for the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Consulted on article on Henry O. Tanner for Art and Antiques Magazine.
Consulted the Chrysler Museum for an exhibition on Thomas Hovenden.
Consulted the Woodmere Museum, Philadelphia for an exhibition on Thomas Hovenden.
SELECTED WRITINGS AND PUBLICATIONS
"Lending Color to Canvas," American Visions, February 1991.
"Home, Hearth, and Humanity: The Triumph Over Racial Stereotyping of African-Americans in the Genre Paintings of Thomas Hovenden and Henry Ossawa Tanner." Catalog essay for the first major retrospective exhibition of Hovenden's paintings held at the Woodmere Museum, Philadelphia, September 1995.
Exhibition catalogue: The Paintings of Charles Rogers, October 1990.
Proposal outlining procedures for restoration and fund raising for the Aaron Douglas Project.
"To Paint or To Pass: Robert Scott Duncanson's Dilemma of Racial Identity." Published in the Proceedings of the National Association of African American Studies National Convention, 1997.
"Bound For Freedom: Fugitive Slaves in Nineteenth Century American Art." Published in the proceedings of the National Association of African American Studies National Convention, 1997.
"A Black Queen at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition: Edmonia Lewis' Death of Cleopatra." Published in the proceedings of the National Association of African American Studies National Convention, 1998.
"Jimi Hendrix and the Evolution of Black Rock Music." Published in the proceedings of the National Association of African American Studies National Convention, 2000.
Picturing a People: A History of African Americans from 1619-1900. Textbook published by Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1996.
"Lose Not Courage, Lose Not Faith, Go Forward" Selected Topics From the African American Experience 1900-2000. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 2001.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Tanner Exhibition Committee: Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Greensboro Artists League Board of Directors 1983-1985.
Greensboro Artists League Vice President 1984-1985.
North Carolina Museum of Art: African-American Acquisition Committee 1991-1992.
North Carolina Humanities Council Speakers' Bureau 1993-1996.
Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art.
Member, National Association of African American Studies 1996 - .
Member, National Council for Black Studies 2000 - .
AWARDS
Dean's Merit Award, UNC Greensboro, 1996 - .
MICHAEL D. CAUTHEN
200 Foust Building
The University of North Carolina Greensboro
(336) 334-4494
EDUCATION
1978-1984 Master of Science
1980 (Anthropology). Purdue University Department of Sociology/Anthropology. Achieved All-But-Dissertation; master’s program emphasized “The Four-Field-Approach (i.e., cultural and biological anthropology, Archeology, and anthropological linguistics).”
1974-1978
Bachelor of Arts Alfred University. Designed original interdisciplinary
program which enabled me to major in biology, psychology, anthropology,
and philosophy. Independent research and Bachelor’s Thesis were required
and completed for graduation.
EXPERIENCE
Twenty three years of experience as a speaker, lecturer, and Coach at state and national colleges and universities.
Fall 1996-Present
Lecturer. University of North Carolina-at Greensboro. Taught AFS 100 “Blacks
in America.”
Spring 2002 Lecturer. UNCG, African American Studies Program. Created an Undergraduate class on, “Race, Gender, and Social Conflict,” AFS 305.
Spring 2002 Lecturer. UNCG, Residential College. Instructed “Core” course on “The Metaphysical American,” (“The American Experience, 1790 to 1890) RCO 208w—an original seminar.
Fall 2001 Lecturer. UNCG, Freshman Seminars Program. Designed and conducted seminar on “Race, Gender, and Culture,” FMS 108W.
Fall 2001 Lecturer. UNCG, African American Studies
Program. Developed and taught undergraduate course on “African Worldviews,”
AFS 305.
Spring 2001 Lecturer. UNCG, African American Studies Program. Created and
taught undergraduate course on “African Americans in Popular Culture,”
AFS 305.
Spring 2001 Lecturer. UNCG, Residential College. Instructed “Core” course on “The American Experience, 1945 to Present,” RCO 209.
Fall 2000 Lecturer. UNCG, Residential College, Instructed “Core” course on “The American Experience, 1890 to 1945,” RCO 208.
Spring 2000 Lecturer. UNCG, Residential College, Instructed “Core” course on “The American Experience, 1790 to 1890,” RCO 207.
Fall 1999 Lecturer. UNCG, Freshman Seminars Program. Developed and taught seminar on “Discrimination in Everyday Life,” FMS 108W.
Fall 1999 Lecture. UNCG, African American Studies Program. Designed and instructed undergraduate class on “Race, Gender, and Culture,” AFS 305.
Fall 1999 to Spring 2000 Lecturer. UNCG, African American Studies Program. Taught non-writing intensive version of “Race and Society.”
Spring 1999 Lecturer. UNCG, African American Studies Program. Designed and conducted undergraduate course on “Race and Society,” AFS 305W.
Spring 1999 Lecturer. UNCG, Residential College. Instructed “Core” course on “The American Experience, 1945 to Present,” RCO 209.
Fall 1998 Lecturer. UNCG, Residential College, “Core” course on “The American Experience, 1890 to 1945,” RCO 208.
Spring 1998 Lecturer. UNCG, Honors Program, “Blacks in American Society,” AFS 210H.
Fall 1997 Lecturer. UNCG, Freshman Seminars Program.
Designed and conducted seminar on “The Nature of Prejudice: a global
perspective,” FMS 108W.
1990-1996 IdeaTech, Inc. Columbus, Ohio and Greensboro, North Carolina.
President and founder of IdeaTech, a corporate sole proprietorship specializing
in new product development, innovation consulting, and creative problem
solving seminars.
1989-1990 District Manager World Book – Childcraft,
Inc. Columbus, Ohio.Organized and directed a sales and educational consulting
team which serviced schools, libraries and families on building curriculum
coordinated resource systems.
1985 – 1988 Assistant Women’s Cross Country and Track Coach. Ohio
State University, Columbus, Ohio. Directed student-athletes to 35 School
records, two All-American honors, an individual national Title, and a top
10 world ranking.
1983 – 1985 Assistant Women’s Cross Country and Track Coach. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Tutored Purdue student Athletes to eleven Big 10 titles, an American Triple Jump Best, 8 All-American honors, and two “Jesse Owens Big 10 Athlete-of-the-Year Awards.”
Spring 1984 Instructor. Purdue University, Department of Physical Education. Conducted undergraduate course in Advanced Interscholastic Track and Field Coaching.
1980 – 1983 Teaching Assistant Purdue University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Taught recitation sections and evaluated student learning tasks for “Introduction to Anthropology.”
1982 – 1983 Co-Instructor, Purdue University, School of Nursing. Co-taught course on “Culture and Personality in Health and Healing.”
Fall 1983 Instructor. Purdue University, School of Nursing. Taught course on “Culture and Personality in health and Healing.”
Spring 1976 Co-Instructor (as an undergraduate).
Alfred University, Dept. of Humanities. Co-developed and conducted a course
on “Primitive Religion and Culture.”
AWARDS
1981 Outstanding Young Men of America
1980 Purdue Black Doctoral Fellowship
1978 Lilly-Mellon Doctoral Fellowship
1978 Most Outstanding Student (The Alumni Award), Alfred.
1978 Departmental Honors in four majors, Alfred.
1978 Who’s Who Among College and University Students
1978 Cum Laude
1976-78 Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (ICAC) Sprint Champion, Multiple
Medallist, and school sprint record holder, Alfred.
1975 Herrick Scholarship, Alfred.
1974 Member of the “High School National Honor Society.”
PUBLIC SERVICE
June 2002 Keynote Speaker for Greensboro’s, New Light Baptist Church’s “Juneteenth” Celebration.
February 2002 Master of Ceremonies for the Black Child Development Institute’s Annual Black History Quiz Bowl, for Triad Middle Schools, and High Schools (North Carolina).
February 2002 Delivered Black History Month Lecture on, “The Economic State Of Black America,” to the Chapel Hill Progressive, Primitive Baptist Church—Reidsville, North Carolina.
Spring 2002 Participated on a student led panel on improving Black/white understanding at UNCG.
Fall 2001-Present Served on the UNCG Human Relations Subcommittee, that analyzed the UNCG 2001 “Campus Climate Survey.”
Fall 2001 Statistical consultant to the Office of Minority Affairs, Self Study Committee.
Fall 2001 Panelist on UNCG student organized “Teach-in” on the events of “9/11/01,” and the nature of racism.
October 2001 Deliver Paper on the moral dimension of education reform (Is School Choice Just?), at the 46th Annual Meeting of the South Atlantic Philosophy of Education Society (SAPES).
October 2001-Present Appointed to serve as host of the 47th Annual Meeting of the South Atlantic Philosophy of Education Society.
June 2001 Keynote Speaker for Greensboro’s, New Light Baptist Church’s “Juneteenth” Celebration.
Fall 1999-Present UNCG, member of university’s Human Relations Committee.
March 2000 Chair. UNCG-African American Studies Program, Conference On African American Culture and Experience (CACE)—A Call For Papers on, “Undoing Racism in the Curriculum and Community.”
May 2000 Panelists. First Annual Seed$ Summit 2000: “Networking for Economic Empowerment.” Participated in Plenary Session on “Defining the Problem.” Co-sponsored and hosted by North Carolina A&T State University, and Southeast Economic Developments, Inc.
April 1999 Invited by the Greensboro chapter of the NAACP to address the Greensboro Human Relations Commission on Race and Education
March 1999 Speaker. University of North Carolina-at Greensboro’s Student Chapter of the NAACP: Race, IQ, and the Nature Nurture Debate.
February 1999 Invited to the North Carolina State Capital, by the North Carolina Humanities Council (NCHC), to discuss with state legislators the importance of the Council’s work, and the general value of the humanities to the educational development, and experience of North Carolinians.
February 1999 Panelist. Cone Hospital (Greensboro, NC) program on “How to Successfully Live with Renal Kidney Failure.”
January 1999 Panelist. University of North Carolina-at Greensboro’s Student Chapter of the NAACP: a discussion of internalized racism in the Black community.
November 1998 Co-facilitator of a discussion on the movie “Ghosts of Mississippi” for the University of North Carolina-at Greensboro’s Teaching and Learning Center, and the Unity Week Program.
Fall 1997-Spring 1998 Initiated and facilitated the “Bag Lunch Series” and “All Campus Read” on race relations in the United States for the Conference on African American Culture and Experience (CACE).
November 1997 Co-moderated a Greensboro, North Carolina
“Town Hall Meeting on Race Relations in America and the Local Community.”
January 1996 Facilitated discussion and movie critique of the film “Panthers,”
for the UNCG, Nu Rho Chapter of Alpha Kappa Sorority, Inc.
Spring 1995 Panelist and discussant on Charles Murray’s book, “The Bell Curve” for UNCG’s Minority Affairs, Neo-Black Society, and Black Faculty/Staff Association.
Fall 1994 Speaker and panelist on intra-ethnic relations in the African American Community, for UNCG’s Minority Affairs, and the Neo-Black Society
1990 Presenter and panelist on “The Psychology of Human Creativity.” Global Life Expo, Columbus, Ohio.
1990 Guest speaker, “Race and Athletic Achievement,” Ohio University, Department of Exercise Physiology and Sports Management. Athens, Ohio
1989 Keynote speaker and Master of Ceremony for Sports Banquet, Lancaster Public School System.
1987 Held Coaching Clinic for Ohio Special Olympics.
1986 Guest Speaker on “The State of College Athletics and Recruiting,” for the Dayton Optimist Club.
1982 – 1983 Volunteer Track and field coach for Purdue Area Track Club, Produced 20 State Champions in the Indiana White River State Games.
1982 Volunteer Assistant Track and Field Coach for the West Lafayette High School Boy’s Varsity Track Team. Team won first Hoosier Conference Championship.
ACTIVITIES
Area Coordinator, National Association of African
American Studies.
Faculty Adviser to UNCG’s Neo-Black Society’s Black Heritage Club.
Club Secretary, Toastmasters, Columbus, Ohio.
Inventors Network, Member, Columbus, Ohio.
Adviser Purdue Student Union Board, Purdue.
Student Rep. Anthropology Graduate Committee, Purdue.
Vice-President Black Graduate Association, Purdue.
Student Body Vice-president, Alfred University.
President, Afro-American Awareness Society, Alfred.
RESEARCH INTEREST
Mathematical Models of Social Discrimination. Native American Religions; Master’s Thesis: Religious Syncretism Among the Aztec and Maya. North American Religions; Bachelor’s Thesis: Spiritualism and The Conversion Experience Cross Cultural Perspectives on Prejudice and Discrimination Trends in the Scholastic Performance of African Americans.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
October 2001 “Is School Choice Just?” Presented
at the 46th Annual Meeting of the
South Atlantic Philosophy of Education Society (SAPES), held at Fayetteville
State University, Fayetteville, North Carolina.
October 2000 Responded to Keynote Address on ,”Education and Philosophy
From the Epistemological Paradigm of Race.” South Atlantic Philosophy
Of Education Society’s, Forty-fifth Annual Meeting: The Metaphysics
of Race—Expanding the Conversation of Education.
March 2000 “Of Mice, Genes, and Human Beings: What the discoveries of high ‘IQ’ Genes in mice, and ‘hypertension’ genes in humans can tell us about race and intelligence.” Presented at the 11th Annual Conference on African American Culture and Experience (CACE), at The University of North Carolina-Greensboro, UNCG.
February 2000 “Of Mice, Genes, and Human Beings: What the discoveries of high ‘IQ’ Genes in mice, and ‘hypertension’ genes in humans can tell us about race and intelligence. Presented at the National Association of African American Studies, and the National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies—NAAAS/NAHLS (Houston, Texas).
February 1999 Race and the “Flynn Effect:” Implications of the Massive Increase Gains of 14 Nations on the Race and Intelligence Debate. Presented at the National Conference of the National Association of African American Studies and the National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies (Houston, Texas).
January 1999 The History of Racial Identity in the United States. Presented at the Conference on African American Culture and Experience (CACE), at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG).
January 1998 Race, Cognitive Convergence and Reality. Presented at the National Conference of the National Association of African American Studies and the National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies—NAAAS/ NAHLS (Houston, Texas).
October 1997 Is Racism to Blame for Blacks “Lack” of “Success?” Presented at the CACE Conference at UNCG.
November 1997 Race, Cognitive Convergence and Reality. Presented at the NAAAS/NAHLS (Houston, Texas).
December 1995 Forgotten Women of Science. Presented at the University of North Carolina-at Greensboro’s Women’s Studies Conference.
PUBLISHED PAPERS
“A reply to Paul Bitting’s “Education, Philosophy and the Epistemic Paradigm of Race.” In The Metaphysics of Race: Expanding the Conversation in the Philosophy of Education. SAPES Yearbook 2000.
Race, Cognitive Convergence and Reality. In the 1997 Proceedings of the National Association of African American Studies and the National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies Grant(s) North Carolina Humanities Council (fall 1998) Grant for Reader’s Theatre Perrformances and discussions of the play, Miss Evers’ Boys, and the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment.
REFERENCES: Full references will be furnished
on request.
