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:

History of Anthropology, race, racism, democracy, politics of culture, US, Australia

Areas of Interest:

History of US Anthropology
race, racism, and democracy
politics of culture
US
Australia

Recent Publications

1. Meet Lee Baker, The State of Things, WUNC National Public Radio (April 19, 2010)
2. L.D. Baker, The Cult of Franz Boas and his “Conspiracy” to Destroy the White Race, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 154 no. 1 (March, 2010), pp. 8-18
3. L.D. Baker, Notes on “Post-Racial” Society, North American Dialogue, vol. 13 no. 2 (2010), pp. 1-5, Newsletter of the Society for the Anthropology of North America (plenary session, SANA/ABA Conference, 2010.)
4. L.D. Baker, Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture (2010), Duke University Press
5. L.D. Baker, Racism, Risk, and the New Color of Dirty Jobs, in The Insecure American: How We Got Here and What We Should Do About I, edited by Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besteman (2009), University of California Press [pdf] [abs]