Annie Shaw Barnes "A Speech lasts a lifetime" Company: Barnes and Barnes Location: Virginia Beach, VA Website: anniesbarnes.com

Biography:
Annie Shaw Barnes was born in 1932 to Adam Shaw, Jr. and Annie Bell Rutherford Shaw and raised in Cohassett, south central Alabama. She earned her B.A. degree in sociology and history at Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina and her M.A. degree in sociology at Atlanta University, Georgia. Afterwards the Author taught American history and American government to gifted students at Huntington High School, Newport News, Virginia, for eleven years, 1954-1965. From 1965-1968 she taught college students anthropology and sociology at Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virginia.

In 1968 Barnes enrolled in the University of Virginia and graduated with a Ph.D. in 1971. Her dissertation was entitled, The Black Family in Golden Towers (low-income, middle class, and millionaire families) and published under the title, The Black Middle Class Family. In all, Barnes has published seven books, twenty referred articles, six chapters in colleagues’ books, two brochures, and five abstracts. She gathered primary research in libraries and empirical data throughout America, especially in the American South, in its ghettos and inner cities and on its college campuses, at the United States Disciplinary Barracks (USDB), Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and around the world, via telephone, at the San Diego Naval Personnel and Research Center and in Osuwem, Ghana, West Africa.

At the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, upon graduation in 1971, Barnes became that university’s first African American woman Ph.D., second African American student to earn Ph.D. from that University, and first African American to graduate from the department of Anthropology, Ph.D.

From 1971 to 1997, Barnes was Eminent Scholar of Anthropology in Norfolk State University’s Sociology Department, Norfolk, Virginia retiring as Eminent Anthropology Scholar in 1997. While there, Barnes was selected twice as Best Teacher at Norfolk State University and was also one of the Virginia State Council of Higher Education’s Thirteen Best Teachers of the year in 1988. She gave the keynote speech at the corporate banquet given in their honor.

The author has read numerous professional papers at sessions and in symposia at the American Anthropology Association (AAA) annual meetings and at the Southern Anthropological Society and the Virginia Social Science Association annual meetings.

In the American Anthropology Association (AAA) structure, Dr. Barnes served on the AAA Board of Directors and as President of the Association of Black Anthropologists. She also held many other AAA positions and became the First African American woman president of the Virginia Social Science Association. She was active in the Southern Anthropology Society, lectured in Switzerland and at colleges, universities, and high schools and was a local and regional media expert on black issues.

Availability:
Available as a race/diversity, healthy family development, expert on the military judicial system and black military enlistees(speaker, consultant, or interviewee) and customized church speaking.