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Category Archives: Officers
Orisanmi Burton
Webmaster Orisanmi Burton is a doctoral student in Social Anthropology at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. His research interests include youth culture, masculinity, social movements, political economy, and technology as they relate to the African diaspora. As … Continue reading
Michael Ralph
Transforming Anthropology Associate Editor Michael Ralph is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. He holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. Michael’s scholarship centers on risk, injury, liability, … Continue reading
Oneka LaBennett
Membership Oneka LaBennett is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies, and Women’s Studies at Fordham University. She is also Research Director of the Bronx African American History Project (BAAHP). Her teaching focuses on African Diasporic identities, popular youth … Continue reading
Karen Williams
Anthropology News Editor Karen G. Williams is a Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. Her research interests include the criminal justice system, governance, race/racism(s), social stratification, and medical anthropology. Williams’ current research project is … Continue reading
Melanie E. L. Bush
John L. Gwaltney Scholarship Melanie E. L. Bush is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Adelphi University. She has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and presented at a range of national conferences particularly in the fields of sociology and … Continue reading
Riche Daniel Barnes
Works in Progress Dr. Barnes is Assistant Professor in Afro-American Studies at Smith College. She currently specializes in race, class, and gender dynamics in African American families as they are experienced in the U.S. political economy, race and identity formation across the … Continue reading
Aimee Cox
Vera Green Award Committee Aimee Meredith Cox is a cultural anthropologist and assistant professor of Performance and African and African American Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan where she also held a postdoctoral fellowship … Continue reading
Alisha Winn
Archivist Alisha R. Winn is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Fayetteville State University. Her recent research focused on the social and cultural dynamics of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, one of the largest, most successful African American financial institutions in … Continue reading
Marla Frederick
President Marla Frederick is Professor of African and African American Studies and the Study of Religion at Harvard University. She is the author of Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of Faith (U. of California, 2003), and co-author of … Continue reading
David Simmons
President-Elect David Simmons is an associate professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior at the University of South Carolina. He studies health and healing practices as they intersect with various fields of power in a … Continue reading