My blogs

Blogs I follow

Gender	Male
Industry	Education
Occupation	University Museum Director & Professor
Location	Concord, MA, United States
Introduction	I'm a sociocultural anthropologist with research interests in Africa and the African diaspora; museums and memory work; ritual and globalization; community conservation and social adaptation to environmental transformation; public art and popular aesthetics in comparative perspective including, at the present moment, artistic responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. I have directed the Michigan State University Museum in East Lansing, Michigan. and the Museum of Culture and Environment at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington. I'm the author of the book, "The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family" (Univ. of Georgia Press, 2011)
Interests	Science, environment, ans society: Contemporary art, African art, sociocultural anthropology, race and reenactment, ritual and performance theory
Favorite movies	Céline and Julie Go Boating (Céline et Julie vont en bateau)
Favorite books	J.M. Coetzee, Life and Times of Michael K,Ursula LeGuin, A Wizard of Earthsea; C.S