Lynn Bolles
Lynn Bolles | |
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Born | Augusta Lynn Bolles 1949 (age 74–75)[1] |
Occupation | Anthropologist |
Language | English |
Nationality | American |
Citizenship | United States |
Education | Syracuse University |
Alma mater | Rutgers University |
Spouse | James Mackin Walsh (1980-) |
Augusta Lynn Bolles (born 1949) is an anthropologist, professor of women's studies at the University of Maryland,[2] and co-chair of The Cottagers' African American Cultural Festival.[3]
Biography
She graduated from Syracuse University and earned a master's degree in sociocultural anthropology and a doctoral degree in anthropology from Rutgers University. She is the daughter of Augusta Beebe Bolles and George Bolles. She married James Mackin Walsh on February 9, 1980, in the Kirkpatrick Chapel of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.[4]
She is the author of We Paid Our Dues: Women Trade Union Leaders in the Caribbean (1996) and Sister Jamaica: A Study of Women, Work and Households in Kingston (1996). She co-authored In the Shadows of the Sun: Caribbean Development Alternatives and U.S. Policy (1990) and My Mother Who Fathered Me and Others: Gender and Kinship in the English-Speaking Caribbean (1988). She served as president of the Association of Black Anthropologists (1983โ84), the Caribbean Studies Association (1997โ98), the Association for Feminist Anthropology (2001-2003), and the Society for the Anthropology of North America (2009-2011).[5]
References
- ^ "Library of Congress Linked Data Services". Library of Congress. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
- ^ Butler, Bethonie (2014-11-21). "Yes, those Kim Kardashian photos are about race". Washington Post. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
- ^ "The Cottagers' African American Cultural Festival combines history and social justice - The Martha's Vineyard Times". The Martha's Vineyard Times. 2017-07-19. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
- ^ "The New York Times: Sunday February 10, 1980". Retrieved 2018-03-09.
- ^ Bolles, A. Lynn (2010). "In Memoriam Alston Barrington "Barry" Chevannes (1940-2010)". Caribbean Studies. 38 (2): 145โ148. doi:10.1353/crb.2010.0070. ISSN 1940-9095. S2CID 144559090.
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