Holly M. Barker

Teaching Professor

Sociocultural Anthropology

Research Family at the Burke Museum

Contact Information

hmbarker@uw.edu

Denny Hall, 127

Fields of Interest

critical sport studies Indigenous Methodologies museum decolonization Nuclear weapons Oceania Sociocultural Anthropology

Biography

Ph.D., Anthropology, American University, 2000

M.A., International Education, American University, 1994

B.A., English, University of Rhode Island, 1987

Curator for Oceanic & Asian Culture, Burke Museum

Courses Taught

Autumn 2025

ANTH 401 A: Museum Decolonization and Cultural Collections

Spring 2025

ANTH 213 A: Anthropology and Sport

Winter 2025

ANTH 369 A: Special Problems in Anthropology

Autumn 2024

Spring 2024

Winter 2024

ANTH 401 A: Museum Decolonization and Cultural Collections

Autumn 2023

ANTH 417 A: Surfacing the Stories of Hanford: Local and Global Health Disparities

Spring 2023

Winter 2023

ANTH 331 A: Topics in Critical Sport Studies and Research

Resources & Related Links

Affiliations

Home Department

Professional Affiliations

Commissioner, National Nuclear Commission, Republic of the Marshall Islands

Related News

Related News

Faculty News 2022 (May 10, 2022)
Research Family: Bridging accessibility divides in academic research through Indigenous Oceanic paradigms

(November 19, 2021)
Course Highlight: Engaging Students in Research and a Critical Examination of Sport (May 12, 2020)
The following is a statement from Dr. Holly Barker, Principal Lecturer in the UW Department of Anthropology (October 18, 2019)
Journey behind bars to aid in prisoners' learning (August 6, 2018)
SpongeBob's Bikini Bottom is based on a real-life test site for nuclear weapons (June 4, 2018)
Nuclear trauma still fresh for Seattle’s Marshallese community on 64th anniversary of Bikini Atoll tests (March 6, 2018)
Nuclear Fallout in the Marshall Islands (December 26, 2017)
Faculty | Staff News 2017 (June 8, 2017)
Burke Museum, Research Family, and the Disney film, Moana (June 7, 2017)
Faculty | Staff News 2014 (May 1, 2014)
From the Chair — Spring 2014 (March 31, 2014)
Faculty | Staff News 2012 (April 1, 2012)
Faculty News 2010 (May 1, 2010)
Faculty | Staff News 2009 (December 1, 2009)

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