Michael Blakey | Academic Influence

Michael Blakey 's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings

Michael Blakey

Anthropology

#624

World Rank

#862

Historical Rank

#333

USA Rank

Physical Anthropology

#14

World Rank

#15

Historical Rank

#11

USA Rank

anthropology Degrees

Download Badge

Anthropology

Michael Blakey 's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Masters Anthropology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bachelors Anthropology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Similar Degrees You Can Earn

Best Online Bachelor's in Anthropology 2025

Why Is Michael Blakey Influential?

(Suggest an Edit or Addition)

According to Wikipedia, Michael Blakey is an American anthropologist who specializes in physical anthropology and its connection to the history of African Americans. Since 2001, he has been a National Endowment for the Humanities professor at the College of William & Mary, where he directs the Institute for Historical Biology. Previously, he was a professor at Howard University and the curator of Howard University's Montague Cobb Biological Anthropology Laboratory.

(See a Problem?)

Michael Blakey 's Published Works

Number of citations in a given year to any of this author's works

Total number of citations to an author for the works they published in a given year. This highlights publication of the most important work(s) by the author

Published Works

Toward a Critical Archaeology [and Comments and Reply] (1987) (219)
Enamel hypoplasia and early mortality: Bioarcheological support for the Barker hypothesis (2009) (167)
Frequency and chronological distribution of dental enamel hypoplasia in enslaved African Americans: a test of the weaning hypothesis. (1994) (157)
Bioarchaeology of the African Diaspora in the Americas: Its Origins and Scope (2001) (135)
Deciduous enamel defects in prehistoric Americans from Dickson Mounds: prenatal and postnatal stress. (1985) (110)
The New York African Burial Ground Project: An Examination of Enslaved Lives, A Construction of Ancestral Ties (1998) (99)
Intrinsic Social and Political Bias in the History of American Physical Anthropology (1987) (93)
The New York African Burial Ground Project: Past Biases, Current Dilemmas, and Future Research Opportunities (2004) (63)
W. Montague Cobb (1904–1990): Physical Anthropologist, Anatomist, and Activist (1994) (47)
Socio-Politics of Archaeology (1983) (47)
New York African Burial Ground Skeletal Biology Final Report, Volume 1. Chapter 3. Theory: An Ethical Epistemology of Publicly Engaged Biocultural Research (2004) (37)
Commentary: Past is present: Comments on “in the realm of politics: Prospects for public participation in African-American plantation archaeology” (1997) (35)
Archaeology under the Blinding Light of Race (2020) (33)
Life Histories of Enslaved Africans in Colonial New York (2011) (32)
African Burial Ground Project: paradigm for cooperation? (2010) (31)
New York African Burial Ground Skeletal Biology Final Report, Volume 1. Chapter 6. Isotopic and Elemental Chemistry of Teeth: Implications for Places of birth, Forced Migration Patterns, Nutritional Status, and Pollution (2004) (24)
American nationality and ethnicity in the depicted past (2004) (24)
Understanding racism in physical (biological) anthropology. (2020) (19)
Biochemical correlations among the thermophilic enteric yeasts Torulopsis bovina, Torulopsis pintolopesii, Saccharomyces telluris, and Candida slooffii (1980) (13)
Physical Anthropologist, Anatomist, and Activist (2016) (12)
The New York African Burial Ground: Unearthing the African Presence in Colonial New York (2009) (12)
The Eternal Triangle: Race, Class, and IQ (1996) (11)
New York African Burial Ground Skeletal Biology Final Report, Volume 1. Chapter 11. Skeletal Indicators of Work: Musculoskeletal, Arthritic and Traumatic Effects (2004) (11)
On the biodeterministic imagination (2020) (10)
Social policy, economics, and demographic change in Nanticoke‐Moor ethnohistory (1988) (9)
New York African Burial Ground Skeletal Biology Final Report, Volume 1. Chapter 10. Osteological Indicators of Infectious Disease and Nutritional Inadequacy (2004) (8)
Comment on "Hypoplastic area method for analyzing enamel hypoplasia" B.E.Ensor and J.D. Irish, American Journal of Physical Anthropology (1995) 98:507-517. (1997) (7)
An Analysis of Hypoplasia and Hypocalcification in Deciduous Dentition from Dickson Mound (1981) (7)
New York African Burial Ground Skeletal Biology Final Report, Volume 1. Chapter 9. Odontological Indicators of Disease, Diet and Nutrition Inadequacy (2004) (7)
New York African Burial Ground Skeletal Biology Final Report, Volume 1. Chapter 14. Discussion (2004) (6)
New York African Burial Ground Skeletal Biology Final Report, Volume 1. Chapter 7. Demographic Overview of the African Burial Ground and Colonial Africans of New York (2004) (4)
Political economy of African forced migration and enslavement in colonial New York: an historical biology perspective (2016) (4)
New York African Burial Ground Skeletal Biology Final Report, Volume 1. Chapter 13. The Political Economy of Forced Migration: Sex Ratios, Mortality, Population, Growth and Fertility among Africans in Colonial New York (2004) (4)
The Professional Caucus: Place of Refuge, Source of Change (1989) (3)
William Montague Cobb: Near the African diasporic origins of activist and biocultural anthropology (2021) (3)
New York African Burial Ground Skeletal Biology Final Report, Volume 1. Chapter 1. Introduction (2004) (3)
New York African Burial Ground Skeletal Biology Final Report, Volume 1. Chapter 5. Origins of the New York African Burial Ground Population: Biological Evidence of Geographical and Macroethnic Affiliations Using Craniometrics, Dental Morphology, and Preliminary Genetic Analysis (2004) (3)
BIOCHEMICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL CORRELATIONS IN THE THERMOPHILIC ENTERIC YEASTS, SACCHAROMYCES TELLURIS, CANDIDA SLOOFFII, TORULOPSIS BOVINA and T. PINTOLOPESII (1981) (3)
A comparison of dental enamel defects in Christian and Meroitic populations from Geili, central Sudan (1990) (2)
Racism, structural racism, and the American Association for Anatomy: Initial report from a task force (2022) (2)
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900–1900. Alfred W. Crosby (1989) (1)
William Montague Cobb (1904-1990): obituary. (1993) (1)
George Armelagos and Changing Idea about the Realities of Race, Human Variation, and Racism (2013) (1)
The Fire this Time? (2021) (1)
Stress, social inequality, and culture change : an anthropological approach to human psychophysiology (1985) (1)
Reconstructing early-life lead exposure and biocultural beginnings: the Armelagos Effect in African diasporic bioarchaeology (2013) (1)
Achieving Synthesis: New York’s African Burial Ground and the Influences of George J. Armelagos (2013) (1)
New York African Burial Ground Skeletal Biology Final Report, Volume 1. Chapter 4. Laboratory Organization, Methods, and Processes (2004) (1)
W. Montague Cobb: Near the African Diasporic Origins of Activist and Biocultural Anthropology (2022) (1)
Nutritional stress, paleopathology and geographic ancestry: an integrative study of enslaved Africans in early New York (2018) (0)
Response (2020) (0)
The WAC Origins of the New York African Burial Ground Project (2018) (0)
Killer Apes, Naked Apes, and Just Plain Nasty People: The Misuse and Abuse of Science in Political Discourse. Richard J. Perry. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. 232 pp. (2017) (0)
New York African Burial Ground Skeletal Biology Final Report, Volume 1. Chapter 8. Childhood Health and Dental Development (2004) (0)
New York African Burial Ground Skeletal Biology Final Report, Volume 1. Chapter 2. History and Comparison of Bioarchaeological Studies in the African Diaspora (2004) (0)
Epistemology for a humanistic human biology: the case of the New York African Burial Ground Project at Howard University (2013) (0)
New York's African Burial Ground: From National Security to National Monument (2007) (0)
Mixed signals?: Assessing origins and resistance at the NewYork African Burial Ground (2018) (0)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Commission (2011) (0)
A World Apart: Dental Variation and the New York African Burial Ground (2013) (0)
Report on the Human Remains Recovered from Block 23CB on Colonial Williamsburg Property (2004) (0)
Remembering Leith (2021) (0)
Analysis of Two Human Skeletons from Smith"s Fort, Bermuda (2004) (0)
Candidates for Executive Board Member‐at‐large State A (1989) (0)
Walking the Ancestors Home: On the Road to an Ethical Human Biology (2022) (0)

This paper list is powered by the following services:

Other Resources About Michael Blakey

en.wikipedia.org

What Schools Are Affiliated With Michael Blakey ?

Michael Blakey is affiliated with the following schools: