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Lee D. Baker, Professor of Cultural Anthropology

Office Location:	210 Friedl Bldg, Durham, NC 27708-0042
Office Phone:	(919) 681-3263
Email Address:
Web Page:	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRAVEm3mDno

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

Education:: 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 received his Ph.D. from Temple University in 1994. 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). While 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.

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

Recent Publications (More Publications)

Baker, LD, The Gamble and the Game: Reflections on Writing From Savage to Negro, Transforming Anthropology, vol. 31 no. 2 (October, 2023), pp. 96-99 [doi].
Baker, LD, Franz Boas: the emergence of the anthropologist, JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, vol. 28 no. 4 (2022), pp. 1396-1397.
Baker, L, W. E. B. Du Bois and American Anthropology, in The Oxford Handbook of W.E.B. DoBois (Online Edition, 19 May 2022, edited by Morris, A (2022) [doi].
Baker, LD, The Racist Anti-Racism of American Anthropology, Transforming Anthropology, vol. 29 no. 2 (October, 2021), pp. 127-142 [doi] [abs].
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), pp. 184-185, University of Chicago Press [doi].