- Lecturer
Biography
Professor Buffington is a Cultural Anthropologist, Folklorist, and Oral Historian originally from West Point, Mississippi, with over thirty-five years of experience in higher education. Her scholarly work, The Terry Buffington Papers 1952-2014, a digital Civil Rights Movement collection, documents her anthropological work with Black men who came of age during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and were influenced by Student Non-Violence Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field organizers like Ralph Featherstone, John Buffington, and Stokely Carmichael and commissioned in 2006 by the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage, to conduct ethnographic research and record the oral narratives of local citizenry’s lived experiences and memories of the West Point Civil Rights Movement. She has undertaken ethnography for the Chicago Field Museum and Shedd Aquarium and taught introduction and culture anthropology courses at Mississippi State University’s Cobb Institute of Archeology in Starkville, City Colleges of Chicago, Wilbur Wright and Oliver Harvey Colleges, directors of Trio, Student Affairs, and assistant to College Presidents on minority concerns. Professor Buffington’s work has taken her from Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, and the Midwest, where she taught the anthropological concepts of race, enculturation, ethnicity, and culture diffusion.