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Title:
Adjunct Assistant Professor; African and Afro-American Studies
Education:
B.A (1980), M.A. (1981), Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1988.
Teaching Interests:AFRI 101, Intro to African Studies; AFRI 263, African Belief Systems: Religion and Philosophy in Sub-Saharan Africa; AFAM 050-001 Defining Blackness.
Current Research:
My major area of interest is the creation and activation of racial categories in the United States. I have published on Black witches in Colonial Massachusetts and American slavery. I have presented papers at the American Anthropological Association on Colonial resistance in Kenya, Afro-American Religion, and racial categories in American consciousness. Currently I am working on articles about the film Eve's Bayou, Salem, Massachusetts as a cultural icon, and the OMB 15 revisions to the U.S. Census and a book about slavery and the University of North Carolina.
Curriculum vitae (not currently available)
Email: tjm1@email.unc.edu
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