Academic Degrees and Areas of Specialization

I have five academic degrees: two degrees in Philosophy and two

Masters of Art degrees in Anthropology and a Doctorate in Anthropology.

 

 

Educational and Institutional Summary

 

I. 1989-1991 AA Philosophy, Los Angeles City College

II. 1991-1993 BA Philosophy, California State University, Los Angeles

III. 1993-1994 Multiple Subjects Educational Credential Program, California State University, Los Angeles.

IV. 1996-1998 Masters Degree in Anthropology, California State University, Los Angeles

Specializations in: Biological Anthropology, Archaeology, Ethnography, Ethno‐History, Prehistory, Egyptology, African American Studies, and Socio‐Cultural Anthropology. 

 

Title and Purview of Masters Thesis: “African American Towns in the Trans‐Appalachian West: 1865‐1915.” The monograph include, but was not limited to themes of relative to migrations, town building and the discrete processes of ethno‐geneses that transpired within them.

 

V. 1999-2000 Second Master Degree in Anthropology, University of California, Riverside

VI. 2004 Doctorate Degree in Anthropology, University of California, Riverside Research on the: “Resistance to Social Differentiation of an African American Religious Community in Southern California

 

 

Current Instructional Assignments:

 

2006‐Currently Los Angeles Trade Technical College

2011‐Currently Los Angeles Mission College

 

Lecture and Media Experience

• Lecturer in: Biological Anthropology, Prehistory, Egyptology, African American History, NativeAmerican Culture, and Mesoamerican Archaeology.

• Lecture: Socio-linguistics and Public Communications

•  Member of the African American Cultural Institute.

• IMember of the Society of American Anthropologist Lecture and Media Experience:

• African American Institute (May 2005)Topic: Egyptian Archaeology4. OASIS Foundation (September 2006)Topic: Olmec Cosmology5. The City of Santa Ana Columbus Celebration (October Topic: The Archaeological Evidence of the Antiquity of the African Presence in Mesoamerica.6. OASIS Foundation (March 2003)Topic: Egyptian Mummification Practices7. Southwestern Anthropology Association 2005, San Topic: Monogenism and Multiregional Paradigms8. Southwestern Anthropology Association 2000, Las Vegas. Topic: Ethnicity in Los Angeles: The Life and Times of Mrs. Biddy Mason.9. MENSA Convention, Pasadena, California 2000. Topic: The African American in the Development of the 8. University of California, Riverside, Graduate Student Research Disclosure Day: Topic: Poster and Video Presentation on: African American Towns in Trans‐ Appalachian West 1865‐1915.