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Lee D. Baker

Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Box 90091, Durham, NC 27708-0042
210 Friedl Bldg, Durham, NC 27708-0042

Awards & Honors


Society for the Anthropology of North America-Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America

National American Anthropological Association · 2013

Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America.

International Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) · 2012

Fellow

National National Humanities Center · 2003

Library Resident Fellows

National American Philosophical Society · 1998

Ford Foundation Fellowships/ Postdoctoral

National National Academies, The · 1998

In the News


Published August 24, 2022
Meet the QuadEx Faculty Fellows
Published October 6, 2021
‘Truth is a Linguistic Question’: Five Scholars on Fraught Questions of Language Discrimination
Published October 24, 2019
Shaking Off Outmoded Ideas On Race
Published October 18, 2019
Seminar Series to Raise Awareness of Language Discrimination
Published October 9, 2018
State Fair Time! Lee Baker on the Rules We Ignore to Celebrate the Four F's of the Fair
Published December 6, 2016
Students Debate Global Issues at ICS Capstone Colloquium
Published May 13, 2016
For Blair Holliday, One More Duke Milestone
Published November 10, 2015
Lee Baker comments: University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe’s very telling resignation speech
Published May 1, 2015
Duke Announces 2015 Distinguished Professors
Published December 5, 2014
Duke University commits to increase STEM diversity
Published December 4, 2014
Duke Announces Commitment to Expand College Access at White House Event
Published April 28, 2014
Helping Students Turn Visions Into Realities
Published October 16, 2013
Lee Baker Honored by National Association for Anthropological Research and Service
Published October 11, 2013
Duke council discusses online education, Kunshan
Published May 23, 2013
Lee Baker Reappointed as Trinity Dean of Academic Affairs