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John Patrick Frazier
Assistant Professor, Humanities
Tel.: (630) 942-3073
Fax.: (630) 942-3711
Room: IC-3061A
e-mail: frazier@cod.eduAreas of Research Interest:
• Haitian Vodun Altars
• Popular Culture and Art
• Tourist Art and Its Impact on Indigenous Cultures
• Creating Arts Programs for Refugee Children in War Torn Countries
• Genocide
• Human Trafficking
Recent Courses Taught:
• Humanities 1101 Introduction to the Humanities: The Arts
• Humanities 1102 Ideas and Values
• Humanities 1105 Non-Western Humanities
• Humanities 1110 Cultural Diversity and the Arts
• Honors Humanities 1101, 1105, 1110
Current Projects:
•"Altaring the World": Haitian Vodun Altars in Chicago (Dissertation)
•Introducing Multicultural Diversity in the Classroom, curriculum developed in collaboration with the National Board of Multicultural Education
•Co-developing genocide curriculum for the Illinois State Board of Education and Chicago Public Schools
• Sharing Pedagogy & Teaching Strategies
Selected Publications, Presentations, Performances, Books:
Publications
Teaching Human Rights: Practical Activities for Primary and Secondary Schools. United Nations (2005)
"Gimme a Beat: World Music Festival Curriculum." City of Chicago (2002)
"A Mystery at the Museum." The Field Museum (2002)
"Masks in Cultural Perspective" Gallery Guide. The Field Museum (2001)
"An Educator's Guide to Latinos." The Field Museum (2000)
The Art of Exile: Painting the Life of East African Refugees. National Museum of Kenya. Nairobi, Kenya (1998)
"Watoto Barabarani katika Nairobi. (Nairobi Street Children)" Sauti Zetu (November 1998)
Elimu Njau: A Kenyan Artist of the Past and Future." Sauti Zetu (1997)
"The Invention of Tradition: Mexican Masks in Cultural Context." Indiana University Art Museum (1995)
"The Palladium Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions of Organostannanes." Journal of Organic Chemistry 61.4 (April 1996): 1533-1536.
"Taking a Revisionist Bite: The Tenth Triennial Symposium in the Big Apple." African Arts 28.4 (Autumn 1995): 105-09.
"The Aromas of Sulfur Chemistry: The Synthesis of Disulfides from the Palladium (0) Catalyzed Reactions of Sulfenyl Chlorides and Tetramethyl Tin." Colgate Journal of the Sciences 1994: 2-13.
Presentations"African Children: Losing Innocence" Center for Global Change (2007)
"Grandmaster Flash and Public Enemy: Early Hip Hop's Urban Message" at the African-American Read-in (2007) "Experiencing Genocide: Dehumanizing Your Fellow Man/Woman" Midwestern Region Conference of the College Humanities Association. Chicago (2006)
"Becoming a Man/Woman in Africa: African Initiations" College of DuPage (2006)
"Negro Spirituals" in collaboration with Lee Kesselman and the College of DuPage Chamber Ensemble the African-American Read-In (2006)
"Contributions of Africans to World Culture and Development" African Studies Annual Association Meeting in San Francisco (2006)
"Afterschool Arts Programs" New Orleans Public Schools (2004)
"Arts in a Refugee Camp: A How to Manual." United Nations (2004)
"Cleopatra of Egypt: Myth or Reality." The Field Museum (2003)
"African Medical Science and American Medical Witchcraft: Whose Medical System is Really Primitive?" Surgical Museum (2003)
"Dinosaurs: Relatives to Birds or Reptiles." Sauropod Saturday Conference, Navy Pier (2001)
"Disney's Construction of Polynesian Culture: Oceanic Art in Context?" Illinois History Conference (2001)
"The Behavioral Aspects of a Greater Black-Backed Gull Community." National Science Foundation at Shoale's Marine Institute. Appledore Island, Maine.
"What's the Harm in a Stereotype: Analyzing Popular Conceptions of Other Cultures" (2000)
Exhibitions:
"The Art of Exile: Painting the Life of East African Refugees"
"The Invention of Tradition: Mexican Masks in Cultural Context"
"Seeing Chicago through a Child's Eyes"
"Contemporary Kenyan Artists"
"Projects Photography"
Education:
Ph.D. Indiana University (Expected 2008)
University of Nairobi (2000)
M.A. African, Oceanic, and Pre-Columbian Art History, Indiana University (1998)
B.A. Colgate University (1993)
University of Nigeria, Nsukka (1992)
Awards and Recognitions:
850,000 children served by programs and curriculum
28,000 teachers educated by programs
12,000 refugees served by programs
NEH Grant Workshop in "Philosophical Ideas and Artistic Pursuits in the Traditions of Asia and the West" (2007-08)
Who's Who Among America's Teachers (2007)
"50 Young Chicagoans to Know" in Chicago Magazine (2004)
Master Teacher, ISBE (2002) Multicultural Expert, Indiana State Board of Education (2001)
United Nations and UNICEF, Program Consultant (2000-)
National Board of Multicultural Education, Invited Member (2000-2004)
Best Practice in Education Awards, The Field Museum (2000-2001)
Four American Assoication of Museums' Excellence Awards (1999-2002)
Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) (1997-1999)
Roy Sieber African Studies Grant (1997-1998)
Friends of Art Research Grant (1998)
John Edwards Community Service Fellowship (1996)
Konosioni Honor Society (1994)
More on this faculty member
John Frazier has been fortunate to have opportunities to live and work amongst diverse populations around the world, including inner city Chicago youth, Ibo of Nigeria, Vodun practioners in Haiti, Mexican street children in the Yucatan, Rwandan refugees in Kenya, Pygmies of the Central African Republican, and Sudanese refugees in the Middle East. From this lived experience, John strives to create classroom experiences in which students grapple with the achievements, shortcomings, and creativity of the world's multicultural diversity.
