Lee D. Baker, Mrs. Alexander Hehmeyer Professor

Office Location:	210 Friedl Bldg, Durham, NC 27708-0042
Office Phone:	+1 919 681 3263
Email Address:
Web Page:	https://www.ldbaker.com/

Teaching (Spring 2024):

• Culanth 172.01, Anthropology of design and ux Synopsis

  Friedl bdg 107, TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

• Culanth 499s.01, Senior distinction seminar Synopsis

  Friedl bdg 118, Tu 03:05 PM-05:35 PM

• Ph.D. Temple University 1994
• Certificate in African Studies University of Ghana-Legon, Accra, Ghana 1995
• B.S. Portland State University 1989
• PhD, MA Temple University

Specialties:

Race

Identity

North America

Australia, New Zealand & Oceanania

Ethnohistory

Race Studies

African Diaspora

Research Interests:

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.

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Baker, LD. "The Gamble and the Game: Reflections on Writing From Savage to Negro." Transforming Anthropology  vol. 31 no. 2 (October, 2023): 96-99. [doi]
2. Baker, LD. "Franz Boas: the emergence of the anthropologist." JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE  vol. 28 no. 4 ( 2022): 1396-1397.
3. Baker, L. "W. E. B. Du Bois and American Anthropology." 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): 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): 184-185. [doi]