Professor Ekpo Eyo
African Art and Archaeology

Art History & Archaeology
Mail: 1211-D Art-Sociology Building
Office: 4204 Art-Sociology Building
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-1335
(301) 405-1485
Email: ee13@umail.umd.edu

Professor Ekpo Eyo specializes in African art. In recent years he has been directing archaeological field work at three important Nigerian sites, Ile-Ife, Owo, and Ikom. He has reported the findings of those expeditions and his further research in the Unesco Courier, The West African Journal of Archaeology, Africa Heute, Insight: The Quarterly of World Affairs, African Arts and other journals. His books include Two Thousand Years of Nigerian Art (Imprimerie Marsens, Laussane) and, with co-author Frank Willet, Treasures of Ancient Nigeria: Legacy of Two Thousand Years (Alfred Knopf, New York). He is preparing a book to be titled The Royal Art of Owo. Professor Eyo was named Smithsonian Regency Fellow in 1984. He is involved in continuing on-site study of the monoliths of the Cross River region of eastern Nigeria, a project funded by the French Dapper Foundation, the L.J. and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation, and the University's Graduate School. He was also consultant to a major exhibition of African art that opened in 1995 at the Royal Academy of Art, London. Professor Eyo was a participant in an international symposium, The Part of Archaeology in the Cross-Cultural Dialogue between North and South, held in Switzerland under the sponsorship of the Swiss-Liechtenstein Foundation for Archaeological Research and the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences.