Background

Grey Gundaker received an Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology from Yale University. She is the author of Signs of Diaspora / Diaspora of Signs: Literacy, Creolization, and Vernacular Practice in African America, and (with Judith McWillie) No Space Hidden: The Spirit of African American Yards (forthcoming); and editor of Keep Your Head to the Sky: Interpreting African American Home Ground. Her teaching interests include material culture, religion, arts, and education in the African diaspora; West and Central African arts and religions; the Applachian south; as well asl theory and method in cultural studies and anthropology. Her research investigates literacy and self-publication in African America; and sacred landscape in African and the diaspora.