Dr. Angela Howell
Assistant Professor
Education:
B.A. Sociology, Morgan State University, 2000
M.A. Anthropology, Brown University, 2002
Ph.D. Anthropology, Brown University, 2007
Teaching Interests: Introduction to Anthropology; Introduction to Sociology; Social Problems; Sociocultural Anthropology; Language and Society; Forensic Anthropology; Introduction to Archaeology; Ethnography of Selected Cultural Regions; Race, Education and Social Inequality (graduate course); Sociology of Baltimore (graduate course); Urban Sociology (graduate course), *Coordinator Anthropology Concentration
Research Interests: African American identity, youth culture, social constructions of reality, religious expression, race, ethnicity and gender, public anthropology, educational institutions, and literacy
Recent Publications/ Presentations:
"The Current State of Anthropology at Historically Black Colleges and Universities." Presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Montréal, Canada, November 2011.
"One Man, His Message, and His Method: Reclaiming African American Literacy Traditions." Lecture given for the Department of Sociology and Anthropology Lecture Series, Morgan State University, April 2011.
"Baltimore, The City that Reads?: Vernacular Literacy, Hope, and Fear in America." Presented at the Association of Black Anthropologists/ Society for the Anthropology of North American Conference, Denver, CO, April 2010.
"President-elect Obama: His Symbolic Importance in His Own Words." Journal of African American Studies 13(2): 187-189, 2009.
