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Tamra-Lee N. Higgs 75 Fifth Street, N.W. Suite 810 Atlanta, GA 30308 USA T 404.214.9440 F 404.214.6901 thiggs@cifalatlanta.org Tamra-Lee N. Higgs is a qualitative researcher and an applied cultural anthropologist. She has conducted research on various topics relating to individual and group identity and the implication of social race, ethnicity, gender, and age, in the United States and Jamaica. Two of her most recent projects include a qualitative study of race and gender in U.S. universities and the growing phenomena of gambling addictions and older adults, which resulted in a paper presented at the Georgia Gerontology Society’s Annual Meeting/Training Center Conference in 2004. She has also taught undergraduate courses in Cultural Anthropology and is a member of the American Anthropological Association and Lambda Alpha Honorary Anthropology Fraternity. Ms. Higgs also has an extensive international travel background including a five month study of Aegean archaeology and ancient Greek literature in Athens, Greece. Her first academic publication, Veranda Nights: Folklore, Fiction and Feminism from an Afro-Caribbean and African-American Perspective has recently been published in the DePauw University Journal of Undergraduate Research. Ms. Higgs received her Master of Arts in Cultural Anthropology from Georgia State University and also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Cultural Anthropology and English Literature from DePauw University. |
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