“My biggest tip is to pursue research on what you love. If you're passionate about monkeys, study them in Japan. If Scottish folk music excites you, explore it in the Hebrides. If ancient Mediterranean civilizations fascinate you, conduct your research in Cyprus. Follow your passion, and your work will thrive!”

"Never give up on yourself. Meditate, exercise, rest, and explore creative hobbies. Invest in your mental and physical health. Doing so will make you appreciate your academic labor and rewards. Seek out a diverse cohort of mentors and colleagues. Speak your truth and honor the voices of those we "study.""

Lee 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 (1998), Life in America: Identity and Everyday Experience (2003), and Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture (2010).

Although he focuses on the history of anthropology, he has published numerous articles on a wide range of subjects from socio-linguistics to race and democracy. Baker also received the Richard K. Lublin Distinguished Teaching Award and the American Anthropological Association’s award for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America. From 2008-2016, he served as Duke’s Dean of Academic Affairs.

Dr Katharine Fernstrom’s research in the archaeology of art and material culture sits at the intersections of colonial, dominant, and oppressed cultures. Current research includes the position of murals on the North American landscape from earliest pre-contact to most recent Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) statements. Examination of the full assemblage of human artmaking behavior on the landscape opens discussion of both shared and contested spaces.

Hyang Jin Jung is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Seoul National University, South Korea. She received her Ph.D. in 2001 in cultural anthropology from the University of Minnesota, U.S.A. Her research interests lie in the intersection among culture, self, and emotion, with U.S. and the two Koreas as her primary anthropological sites. Her ongoing research projects include the psychocultural underpinnings of the North Korean statehood and society, education and cultural psychology in South Korea, and the emotional culture of the postmodern American society. She is author of Learning to Be an Individual: Emotion and Person in an American Junior High School (Peter Lang, 2007).