Linda Tavernier-Almada Ph.D.

Dr. Tavernier is Director of Liberal Studies Program and Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies.

• Lives and Struggle: Minorities in a Majority Culture
• Cultural Anthropology
• Caribbean History and Culture
• Folktales and Cultures
• Nonwestern Culture and Identity Formation (previously called “Third World” Cinema
• Anthropology and Film–Using films to examine international issues related to environment, gender, poverty, and religion
• African American Life and Culture in the United States
• Cultures of the World
• Folklore in American Protest Movements (local fieldwork required
• Dangerous Company (A Conference Course)
• African Colonial Postcolonial History and Culture

Dr. Tavernier has a BA, MA, and Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley. Her Ph.D. is interdisciplinary and includes Anthropological Folklore, Political Theory, and the African Diaspora (with a focus on the Caribbean).

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
• Social Differentiation and Marginalization
• Culture and Cultural Diversity
• Visual Ethnography
• Ethnohistory
• Oral Traditions and Oral History
• African Diaspora History and Culture
• National and International Performative Folk Expressions

Dr. Tavernier’s most recent work was published in March 2010, in the book The Inside Light: New Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston. Most of her present research focuses on Caribbean populations in the US, but also in Haiti.

ACADEMIC AWARDS
• Hugh and Jeannette McKean Award for research and discovery. 2006
• Leadership Appreciation Award, from the Cultural Action Committee. 2007

HONORABLE MENTIONS
• January 20, 2007. Article by Linda Shrieves. The Orlando Sentinel
• January 17, 2006. Front page article by Christopher Sherman, The Orlando Sentinel