Dr. Riché J. Daniel Barnes is a sociocultural anthropologist whose specializations are at the intersection of black feminist theories, work and family policy, and African Diasporic raced, gendered, and classed identity formation. Her work focuses ethnographically in the U.S. South, its connection to the Caribbean and the west coast of Africa. She also explores the complexities of urban living. She is an award-winning teacher and scholar having won the 2019 AAA/Oxford University Press Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology award.
She is the author of Raising the Race: Black Career Women Redefine Marriage, Motherhood and Community (2015), winner of the 2017 Distinguished Book Award given by the American Sociological Association. She is currently completing projects expanding on her conceptual framework – Black Strategic Mothering and applying the concept to understanding how Black mothers navigate school-choice and the impact on perinatal health outcomes.
Barnes is the President of the Association of Black Anthropologists. She will teach her course “Sex and Gender in the Black Diaspora” when she begins at UF Spring 2022. Barnes completed her B.A. magna cum laude in Political Science at Spelman College, her M.S. in Urban Studies from the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Emory University.