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Lee received his B.S. from Portland State University and his 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 a wide range of subjects from socio-linguistics to race and democracy. Baker also received the Richard K. Lublin Distinguished Teaching Award and the American Anthropological Association’s award for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America. From 2008-2016, he served as Duke’s Dean of Academic Affairs.

Carolyn Rouse earned an A.B. in anthropology and sociology from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. Her work explores the use of evidence to make particular claims about race and social inequality. Rouse is the author of several books, including “Engaged Surrender: African American Women and Islam,” “Televised Redemption: Black Religious Media and Racial Empowerment,” and “Uncertain Suffering: Racial Healthcare Disparities and Sickle Cell Disease.” Currently she is finishing a book and film based on her work studying low life expectancies in a white rural community in California. Rouse was Program Chair for the 2012 AAA Meetings and the 2017 AAA/ASA Meetings. She also served as chair of two ad hoc committees for the AAA. Rouse has taught at Princeton University since 2000.

“Use anthropology to explore and address pressing global challenges—climate change, inequality, cultural preservation, and social justice. Anthropology is a powerful tool for advocacy and change.”

“If you like it, just do it. Whether your background was once social work or law or economics, these experiences shape the way you understand the world. When you're ready, anthropology welcomes you.”