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Lee D. Baker, PhD
Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
Lee D. Baker, PhD, Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African & African American Studies, oversees Duke’s Office of Undergraduate Education.
He 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 (University of California Press, 1998), Life in America: Identity and Everyday Experience (Wiley-Blackwell Press, 2003), and Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture (Duke Press, 2010).