Ethnographic Field Research
Bahamas
Andros Island
Research Website: Basketry of Red Bays
2005 Project: Filming V.O. Oldham, broadcast journalist. Video footage for use in production of 30-minute documentary short entitled “Looking for Angola ”
2003 Project: Social capital, health and HIV awareness of Red Bays' girls. Interdisciplinary research with Sharon Morrison, Ph.D., University of North Carolina , Greensboro
2003 Project: Teaching Cultural Heritage. First ethnographic field experience for two UCF students
2002 Project: Oral history and demographic updates, Video- and Audio-taping interviews
2001 Project: Oral history and demographic updates, Video- and Audio-taping interviews
2000 Project: Oral history and demographic updates, Video- and Audio-taping interviews
1996-1997 Project: Ethnohistorical study of Black Seminoles in the Bahamas (Ph.D. Research)
Guadeloupe
Basse Terre and Grand Terre
2001 Project: Preliminary investigation of new research population. Black and Indian connections in the eastern Caribbean
Florida
Seminole Indian Reservations: Big Cypress , Hollywood , and Brighton
1999 Project: Oral history interviews with Seminole Tribe of Florida tribal elders and political, business, and spiritual leaders. (Ph.D. Student Research Assistant). Spring and Summer 1999
1995 Project: Sociocultural study of architectural heritage and preservation in Bahamian immigrant community, “Black Grove.” (Ph.D. Student Research) University of Florida . Miami , Spring 1995
Jamaica
Black River , St. Elizabeth Parish
1995 Studying Up”: Analysis of elite perspectives on environmental degradation.
Archival Research
2005 Library of Congress, Washington , D.C.
2005 Newberry Library, Chicago , IL
1996-Present Bahamas Department of Archives, Nassau , Bahamas
1995 Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, College of Charleston , SC
1995-Present University of Florida , Smathers Library, Special Collections, Gainesville , FL |