Office Location:	210 Friedl Building
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Web Page:	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)

1. L. Baker. ""Anthropology, History of."." Encyclopedia of Race and Racism. Edited by John Hartwell Moore.  vol. 1 ( 2008): 93-97. [pdf]
2. L.D. Baker. "Transforming Anthropology."   vol. 15 no. 2 (October, 2007.).
3. L. Baker. "Transforming Anthropology."   vol. 15 no. 1 ( April, 2007.).
4. L. Baker. "Signing Off." Transforming Anthropology  vol. 15 no. 2 ( 2007): 95-96. [pdf]
5. L. Baker. "W.G. Pearson’s Uniforms about Distinction." Durham Herald Sun  vol. Nov no. 21 ( 2007): A22. [pdf]

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