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Women of Africa and the African diaspora
Political economy of women
Black feminist anthropology

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Dr. A. Lynn Bolles joined the department in 1989, after serving for eight years as the Director of Africana Studies at Bowdoin College. She is also an affiliate faculty with Anthropology, African American Studies, American Studies and Comparative Literature. Her research focuses on the importance of economic analysis and on the impact of class on women in the English-speaking Caribbean.

She has published several books on Caribbean women: We Paid Our Dues: Women Trade Union Leaders in the Caribbean (1996); Sister Jamaica: A Study of Women, Work and Households in Kingston (1996); In the Shadow of the Sun, co-authored with Deere et al. (1990); and My Mother Who Fathered Me and Others: Gender and Kinship in the English-Speaking Caribbean (1988).

From 1991-1993, Dr. Bolles served as the Chair for the Africa and Africa in the Americas Committee. In 1994, she received the University of Maryland Minority Faculty of the Year Award. An active member of numerous professional organizations, Dr. Bolles has served as the President of the Association of Black Anthropologists (1983-84); the Caribbean Studies Association (1997-98), the largest and oldest scholarly organization focusing on the region; and the Association for Feminist Anthropology (2001-03). Dr. Bolles is also the president-elect of the Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) (2009-2011).

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2101J Woods Hall
College Park, MD  20742

Degrees:
Ph.D., Women's Studies, Rutgers University

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Historical archaeology of northeast North America, Ireland, and Scotland, with specializations in anthropological approaches to the archaeology of diaspora, colonialism, the emergence and influence of capitalism and urbanization, immigration history, social identity and heritage formation.

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Tourism, including Chesapeake Bay and Maryland Eastern Shore; Heritage development; Applied anthropology; Culture concept

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Cuba, Caribbean, Latin America, African Diaspora, South Africa, politics and performance

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Medical anthropology and community development of a neighborhood; Anthropology of low-income urban enclaves with emphasis on aging in immigrant communities. Prof. Freidenberg is currently researching health care and employment needs of Latin American immigrant retirees in Langley Park, Maryland.

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An expert court first amendment witness in nearly 100 exotic dance cases, Hanna writes about dance as communication and expression, education, stress reduction and resistance. Hanna has conducted research in African villages, children's playgrounds, and American theaters, cabarets, and communities.

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North American Archaeology; Historical Archaeology; Outdoor History Museums; Annapolis Project; Mormon cultural ecology in the 19th century;

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Dance Ethnology/Anthropology. Concentrations in India, Spain, West Africa (Guinea); Nationalism, Colonialism; Dance/Movement as Embodied Culture; Intercultural Performance and Pedagogy; Flamenco Dance; Laban Movement Studies.

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The ways material items are used by individuals and groups in order to create social relations and group identity. Material culture and landscapes are powerful tools that can express gender, ethnicity, class, and power relations

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human-environment interactions, historical ecology, indigenous knowledge, rural livelihoods, conservation, climate change adaptation and resilience, Southern and Eastern Africa

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Violence and conflict on the African continent, especially Central and East Africa (including the Horn of Africa); sociology of violence

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