Assistant Professor of Arts and Humanities
Research Consultant on “Degas and Millinery,” exhibition for the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Primary researcher, cataloguer, and curatorial consultant for private collection of African Art
Curatorial Consultant and Researcher on “Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures,” for the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Robert Lehman Foundation Fellowship, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Provost’s Global Research Initiative Fellowship (London), New York University
Sheldon Solow Graduate Fellowship and Lila Acheson Wallace Fellowship, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Award-winning Lead Teacher and Master Tutor for the Princeton Review
Professor Grace Woods-Puckett’s research specialties include nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American and European art and the arts of sub-Saharan Africa. Questions of national identity, performance, myth, and networks inform her current research. Woods-Puckett earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and B.A. in Art History from Smith College.
Woods-Puckett believes curiosity and enthusiasm are two of a student’s most powerful tools; helping her students discover how to activate and harness those powers is one of her great joys. Professor Woods-Puckett teaches the Multimodal Communications Cornerstone, the Arts & Social Change Core Course, and the Decoding the Arts and Literature Concentration Course. She is also the Instructional Lead for the College of Arts and Humanities.