Biography
Woodman Taylor’s interdisciplinary scholarship revolves around the performative practices of visual and musical cultures. He received his doctoral and master’s degrees in Art History from the University of Chicago, USA. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Asian History and Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, USA. He has taught at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Chicago and Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India. Dr. Taylor has served as a curator of Islamic and Indian art, first at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and more recently at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA. Dr. Taylor now teaches Art History and Ethnomusicology at the American University in Dubai, UAE, where he is also founding convenor of the AUD Visual Cultures Forum. Dr. Taylor has held research fellowships from the J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, USA, and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA, and has thrice been a Fulbright Scholar.