Lee D. Baker, Dean of Academic Affairs of Trinity College
| Office Location: | 114 Allen Building |
| Office Phone: | (919) 684-3465 |
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| Web Page: | http://www.duke.edu/~ldbaker |
Education:
- PhD, MA Temple University
- Certificate in African Studies University of Ghana-Legon, Accra, Ghana 1995
- BS Portland State University
- Specialties:
- Race
- Identity
- North America
- Australia, New Zealand and Oceanania
- Ethnohistory
- Race Studies
- African Diaspora
Research Interests:
Lee D. Baker received his Ph.D. from Temple University, and his research explores the history of anthropology and its role in the U.S. as the science of race and arbiter of culture. He is author of From Savage To Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954 (UC Press 1998); and Life in America: Identity and Everyday Experience (Blackwell 204). Although his main research explores the history of anthropology in the U.S., he is also interested in the Aboriginal experience in Australia, and the African American experience in the U.S.
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- L.D. Baker. "Racism, Risk, and the New Color of Dirty Jobs." The Insecure American: How We Got Here and What We Should Do About I. Edited by Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besteman. ( 2009.). [pdf] [abs]
- L.D. Baker. "The Location of Franz Boas within the African-American Struggle [reprint]." Franz Boas: Kultur, Sprache, Rasse.. Edited by Friedrich Pöhl & Bernhard Tilg. ( 2009): 111-129. [abs]
- L.D. Baker. "Saggin’ and Braggin’." In Anthropology Off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing. Edited by Alisse Waterston & Maria Vesperi. ( 2009.). [pdf] [abs]
- L.D. Baker. "Herskovits and the Heart of Blackness (Consultant)." ( 2009).
- L. Baker. "Boas, Franz." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Edited by William A. Darity, Jr... vol. 1 (2008): 344-346. [pdf]