91̽»¨

Rebecca Wolff

Rebecca Wolff

Assistant Professor


(757) 594-7883

Torggler Fine 91̽»¨ Center 319

Biography

Education

  • Ph D in African Art, Modern Latin American Art, University of California, Los Angeles
  • MA in Modern Art History, Columbia University
  • BA in Art History and English Honors, University of Texas, Austin

Dr. Rebecca Wolff is an art historian with a focus on modern and contemporary African art. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled "Experience and Memory: The Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970) and Nigerian Contemporary Art," which examines how artistic production intersects with armed conflict through the lenses of testimony, trauma, and memory. Her research has been supported by the Smithsonian Institution, the American Council of Learned Societies, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Her writing on African and African Diasporic art has appeared in numerous journals and international exhibition catalogues.

Teaching

African Art
Global Modernisms
Latin American Art

Research

Modern and contemporary African art
Nigerian art
Art as it intersects with the postcolonial state
The relationships between art and propaganda
Manifestations of memory and trauma in art

Selected Accomplishments

  • Roy Sieber Dissertation Award, 91̽»¨ Council of the African Studies Association. (2024)

  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2025). Visual Propaganda and Biafran National Identity: Artists Constructing a Nation During Wartime. African Studies Review. Volume, 67. Issue, 4. Pages, 888–919.
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    (2022). "Jimo Akolo"; "Simon Okeke"; "Uche Okeke". American Federation of 91̽»¨.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2022). Assembling Pan-Africanism in Melvin Edwards’s Homage to the Poet Léon Gontran Damas. Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art. Issue, 50. Pages, 107–115.
  • Encyclopedia Article
    (2022). Robben Island. ABC-CLIO. Pages, 459–465.

  • Rebecca Wolff, "Project Development Grant," Sponsored by American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
  • Rebecca Wolff, "One Month Fellowship for research for "Experience and Memory: The Nigerian Civil War and Nigerian Contemporary Art"," Sponsored by The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin