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Reinhild Janzen is Assistant Professor of Art. Before coming to Washburn in 1996, she was Curator of Cultural History at Bethel College's Kauffman Museum and has worked with many issues in the whole field of Mennonite material culture of the Plains. She has both published a book and articles and curated a major exhibition on Mennonite furniture. She has been President of both the Kansas Museums Association and the Historical Warkentin House in Newton, and was active in getting the WPA public scupture The Mennonite Settler on the National Register of Historic Places. A current research project focuses on Mennonite visual arts, especially in relationship to Mennonite worship spaces.

Email: reinheld.janzen@washburn.edu

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