Ethnographic Field Research

NEW RESEARCH: St. David’s Island, Bermuda

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