Michael Blakey (other)
Michael Blakey may refer to: * Michael Blakey (anthropologist) (born 1953), American professor at the College of William & Mary * Michael Robert Blakey (born 1975), British business angel and venture capitalist {{hndis, Blakey, Michael ...
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Michael Blakey (anthropologist)
Michael Blakey (born February 23, 1953) is an American anthropologist who specializes in physical anthropology and its connection to the history of African Americans. Since 2001, he has been a National Endowment for the Humanities professor at the College of William & Mary, where he directs the Institute for Historical Biology. Previously, he was a professor at Howard University and the curator of Howard University's Montague Cobb Biological Anthropology Laboratory. Early life and education Blakey obtained his B.A. in Anthropology from Howard University in 1978, and an M.A. (1980) and a Ph.D. (1985) from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He served as president of the Association of Black Anthropologists from 1987 to 1989. Career African burial ground in Manhattan Blakey was a director of the New York African Burial Ground Project, now the African Burial Ground National Monument. According to Blakey, the existence of this burial ground in what is now Lower Manhattan ( ...
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