Professor Battle-Baptiste Chosen as 2025 Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lecturer
Battle-Baptiste's lectures will reflect on her pioneering work, Black Feminist Archaeology, first published in 2011.
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Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Center, has been selected to be the Archaeological Institute of America's Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lecturer for 2025. This remains one of the highest honors that the AIA can bestow. Lecturers are chosen for their distinguished work and scholarship in the field of archaeology in the US or internationally. Professor Battle-Baptiste's lectures will reflect on her pioneering work first published in 2011, Black Feminist Archaeology, and will take place in Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina.
About the Lectureship
In 1879, Charles Eliot Norton, professor of the History of Art at Harvard University, founded the Archaeological Institute of America with a group of eleven associates. Norton was elected the first president of the AIA. During his presidency, which lasted eleven years, Norton was involved in the supervision of Institute fieldwork in both the Old and New Worlds, in the founding of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, and in the publication of the first American Journal of Archaeology. The Norton Lecturers are chosen by the Lecture Program Committee and give several lectures to AIA Local Societies annually.
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Whitney Battle-Baptiste
Whitney Battle-Baptiste's research focuses on the connections of race, gender, class, and sexuality, during slavery and post-emancipation.
