Research Interests for Lee D. Baker

Lee D. Baker is Dean of Academic Affairs of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, and Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, and African and African American Studies at Duke University. He received his B.S. from Portland State University and doctorate in anthropology from Temple University. He has been a resident fellow at Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Johns Hopkins’s Institute for Global Studies, The University of Ghana-Legon, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Humanities Center. His books include From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954 (1998), Life in America: Identity and Everyday Experience (2003), and Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture (2010). Although he focuses on the history of anthropology, he has published numerous articles on such wide ranging subjects as socio-linguistics to race and democracy. Baker is also the recipient of Richard K. Lublin Distinguished Teaching Award.

Keywords:

Anthropology, Cultural, Famous Persons, History, 20th Century, Humans, Jews, National Socialism, Prejudice, Race Relations, United States

Recent Publications

1. Baker, LD, The Gamble and the Game: Reflections on Writing From Savage to Negro, Transforming Anthropology, vol. 31 no. 2 (October, 2023), pp. 96-99 [doi]
2. Baker, LD, Franz Boas: the emergence of the anthropologist, JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, vol. 28 no. 4 (2022), pp. 1396-1397
3. Baker, L, W. E. B. Du Bois and American Anthropology, in The Oxford Handbook of W.E.B. DoBois (Online Edition, 19 May 2022, edited by Morris, A (2022) [doi]
4. Baker, LD, The Racist Anti-Racism of American Anthropology, Transforming Anthropology, vol. 29 no. 2 (October, 2021), pp. 127-142 [doi] [abs]
5. Baker, LD, :From Boas to Black Power: Racism, Liberalism, and American Anthropology. Mark Anderson. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019. ix + 262 pp. (Cloth US$90, Paper $28.00, E‐Book $15.12), Transforming Anthropology, vol. 28 no. 2 (October, 2020), pp. 184-185, University of Chicago Press [doi]