Whitney Battle-Baptiste

**Whitney Battle-Baptiste** ƙwararriyar masaniyar kayan tarihi ce ta Amurka wacce ta fito daga zuriyar Afirka da Cherokee. Ita mataimakiyar farfesa ce a Jami'ar Massachusetts Amherst kuma darakta ce a Cibiyar WEB Du Bois a Jami'ar. Binciken Battle-Baptiste ya mayar da hankali kan "yadda ma'amalar launin fata, jinsi, aji, da jima'i ke kallon ta hanyar tabarau na kayan tarihi".  Ita ce kuma shugabar Ƙungiyar Nazarin Anthropology ta Amurka . 

Battle-Baptiste a halin yanzu tana aiki akan "Dokokin Hulɗa: Ilimin Tarihi na Al'umma a Matsayin Kayan Aiki don Adalci na Jama'a" (Left Coast Press).  Binciken da take yi a yanzu yana faruwa ne a wurin shukar Millars da ke tsibirin Eluethera a Bahamas, a wani aikin binciken kayan tarihi na al'umma.  Ta mayar da hankali kan ilimin tarihin kayan tarihi na jinsi da launin fata saboda "idan ana rubuta mutane game da shi, ba wai kawai za a iya amfani da ilimin kayan tarihi don cike gibin ba, har ma don ƙirƙirar labarai da tarihi daban-daban." 

## Rayuwar farko da ilimi
Battle-Baptiste ta girma a gundumar Bronx da ke birnin New York kuma an fallasa ta ga tarihi ta hanyar mahaifiyarta, wacce ta koyar a Long Island . Ta halarci Jami'ar Jihar Virginia, HBCU a Petersburg, da irin wannan burin, sannan ta sami digirin digiri na biyu a tarihi a Kwalejin William da Mary . A lokacin horon bazara, ta haɗu da wasu mata 'yan Afirka-Amurkawa da yawa waɗanda masana ilmin kayan tarihi ne, kuma wannan ya sa ta sha'awar wannan fanni.

Ta yi karatun digirin digirgir a Jami'ar Texas da ke Austin a shirin nazarin ilimin ɗan adam na Afirka da ke zaune a ƙasashen waje, kuma ta mayar da hankali kan karatunta kan ilmin kayan tarihi ta hanyar kallon launin fata da jinsi. An buga takardar digirinta mai taken "Yadi don Tsaftacewa: Kabila, Jinsi da Tsarin Bauta" a shekarar 2004 kuma ta dogara ne akan binciken da ta yi a gonar Andrew Jackson da ke Tennessee, The Hermitage . Tana bincika yanayin ikon jinsi a yankunan Afirka da aka kama. 

## Sana'a
Battle-Baptiste ya shiga cikin tono kayan tarihi a Colonial Williamsburg, The Hermitage, Rich Neck Plantation a Virginia WEB Du Bois Boyhood Homesite a Great Barrington, Massachusetts da Millars Plantation a tsibirin Eleuthera na Bahamian .   An nada Battle-Baptiste a matsayin sabon Daraktan WEB Du Bois Center a UMass Amherst a watan Janairun 2015. "An kafa WEB Du Bois Center a ɗakunan karatu na UMass Amherst a shekarar 2009 don jawo hankalin ƙasa da duniya a cikin tattaunawa da ilimi game da batutuwan duniya da suka shafi launin fata, aiki da adalci na zamantakewa."

Ta zama shugabar Ƙungiyar Nazarin Anthropology ta Amurka a wa'adin 2023-2025.  An zaɓe ta a matsayin Malamin Nazarin Ajiyar Kaya na Cibiyar Nazarin Archaeological ta Amurka Norton a kakar shirin lacca ta ƙasa ta 2024/2025. 

## Digiri

* Ph.D., Sashen Ilimin Dan Adam, Jami'ar Texas da ke Austin, 2004
* MA, Sashen Tarihi, Kwalejin William da Maryamu, 2000
* BA, Sashen Tarihi da Ilimin Sakandare, Jami'ar Jihar Virginia, 1994

## Littattafai da aka zaɓa

* Battle-Baptiste, Whitney; da Rusert, Britt (eds.) (2019). *Hotunan Bayanan WEB Du Bois: Ganin Baƙar fata Amurka.* Princeton Architectural Press.  .
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* Battle-Baptiste, Whitney, (2011), "A cikin wannan wurin: Fassara Gidajen da Aka Bauta", A cikin: A. Ogundiran, T. Falola (eds.), *Kimiyyar Kayan Tarihi na Afirka ta Atlantika da kuma 'yan Afirka da ke zaune a ƙasashen waje.* Indiana University Press, shafi na 10.&nbsp;233–248. ISBN&nbsp; .
* Battle-Baptiste, Whitney, (2010), "Ruhohin Sweepin: Ƙarfi da Sauyi a Tsarin Shuke-shuke", A cikin: A. Sherene Baugher da Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood (eds.), *Kimiyyar Kayan Tarihi da Kiyaye Yanayin Jinsi.* Springer Press, shafi na 10.&nbsp;81–94. ISBN&nbsp; .
* Battle-Baptiste, Whitney, (2004), "Sararin Mu Na Kanmu: Sake Bayyana Gidan Da Aka Bauta a Shukar Hermitage ta Andrew Jackson", A cikin: K. Barile, J. Brandon (eds.), *A Cikin Ayyukan Gida da Zaɓuɓɓukan Gida: Ka'idar Tsarin Gida a Tarihin Kayan Tarihi.* Jami'ar Alabama Press, shafi na 10.&nbsp;33–50. ISBN&nbsp; .

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