Sandra Barnes
Biography
Sandra Barnes is a Professor of Anthropology and the Director of the African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1974, and just joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. She has taught as a Visiting Professor at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, where she also has been affiliated with the Institute for African Studies since 1971. Dr. Barnes' research and publications focus on African urbanism, religion, politics, history, and the African diaspora. She is the author of numerous articles, chapters, reviews and books including Patrons and Power: Creating a Political Community in Metropolitan Lagos (1986), for which she received the Amaury Talbot Prize (administered by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland); Ogun: An Old God for a New Age (1980); Africa's Ogun: Old World and New, first published in 1989, and re-published in 1997 in a greatly expanded edition. The latter is a study of the global flow of African cultural meanings in both time and space. Dr. Barnes is presently preparing a study of cultural and social pluralism in pre-colonial West Africa. She has lived, taught, and conducted research for more than seven years in West Africa as a Fulbright Scholar and recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and the Social Science Research Council. Dr. Barnes has served on numerous scholarly boards, including the Board of Directors of the African Studies Association (US) and the American Council of Learned Societies. She is a fellow of the American Anthropological Association, the Royal Anthropological Institute, and the Institute of African Studies.
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