Anna Agbe-Davies
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Anna Agbe-Davies is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Specializing in contemporary and historical archaeology, much of her research focuses on life in the African diaspora. Her first book, Tobacco, Pipes, and Race: Little Tubes of Mighty Power (2015), examines craft production on plantations and the origins of racialized slavery in 17th-century Virginia. Her current book manuscript considers the role of material culture in Black women’s pursuit of human rights circa 1900-1950.