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Thomas Blakely, Ph.D., is a Lecturer in Anthropology at Albright College, with a career spanning 41 years across multiple institutions including Northwestern University, University of South Carolina, Brigham Young University, University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Kutztown University, and Penn State University. His research focuses on African peoples and cultures, particularly the Báhêmbá community in southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he and his wife, Dr. Pamela Blakely, conducted six years of ethnographic fieldwork.
- B.A. in Social Relations, Harvard University
- M.A. & Ph.D. in Anthropology, Northwestern University
- Certificate in African Studies, Northwestern University
- Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Anthropology, Linguistics, and Folklore, University of Pennsylvania
Specializing in visual anthropology and multimodal media research, Blakely has chaired the international Visual Research Conference for 35 years. His expertise includes ethnographic film production, demonstrated through works like African Carving: A Dogon Kanaga Mask and contributions to Seeing Anthropology, a textbook integrating film into cultural anthropology education. He played a pivotal role in the North Shaba agricultural development project, hailed as 'the best grassroots development project done by the United States in Africa' by British historians.
His publications span religious anthropology, ethnographic methodologies, and cultural studies, with works such as Religion in Africa: Experience and Expression. Blakely's courses cover Cultural Anthropology, Forensic Anthropology, Peoples of Africa, and Food and Culture synthesis. While the HTML summary excludes his 7 published works, they demonstrate continued engagement with African cultural practices, visual methodologies, and applied anthropology.
