Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Michael Blakey Michael Blakey
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Other authors / contributors: | Blakey, Michael L., interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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Sound characteristics: | digital
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Digital file characteristics: | video file
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Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey. Larry Crowe, interviewer. Recorded Williamsburg, Virginia 2013 February 27. Vendor-supplied metadata.
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Summary: | Biological anthropologist and research director MichaelL.Blakey was born on February 23, 1953, in Washington, D.C. Blakey received his B.A. degree in anthropology from Howard University in 1978. He continued his studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where he graduated with his M.A. degree in anthropology in 1980, and his Ph.D. degree in anthropology in 1985. Upon graduation, Blakey began teaching at Howard University where he was the curator of the William Montague Cobb Human Skeletal Collection. From 1991 to 1994, Blakey served as the director of the African Burial Ground Project. He then became a professor of American Studies at the College of William and Mary. In 2003, he was appointed as the director and the National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Anthropology at the Institute of Historical Biology. Blakey received an honorary doctorate of science degree, in 1995, from York College of the City University of New York.
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