Office Location:	114 Allen Building
Office Phone:	(919) 684-3465
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Web Page:	http://www.duke.edu/~ldbaker

Teaching (Fall 2009):

• Culanth 144.01, Anthropology of race Synopsis

  Perkins 2-071, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

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)

1. L. Baker. "Boas, Franz." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Edited by William A. Darity, Jr...  vol. 1 (2008): 344-346. [pdf]
2. L. Baker. ""Anthropology, History of."." Encyclopedia of Race and Racism. Edited by John Hartwell Moore.  vol. 1 ( 2008): 93-97. [pdf]
3. L.D. Baker. "Review of The Social Sciences and Theories of Race by Vernon J. Williams, Jr.." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute  vol. 14 no. 1 ( 2008.): 234-235. [pdf]
4. L.D. Baker. "Black Women in the Ivory Tower, Womanism, and Segregated Scholars." Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Soceity  vol. 10 no. 2 ( 2008): 179-187. [pdf]
5. L.D. Baker. "Mission Improbable and the Possible Mission." Anthropology News  vol. 49 no. 2 ( 2008): 7-8. [pdf]

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