BALTIMORE, MD, October 19, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Stefan Goodwin with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Dr. Goodwin celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
GOODWIN, STEFAN CORNELIUS (February 13, 1941- ) is an American anthropologist with specializations in ethnohistory, urbanization, kinship, social time. gender studies, and social history with an emphasis on race and ethnic diversity. He earned his bachelor's degree in French at Tennessee State University, an M.A. degree in international relations at New York University while working as a social worker on New York's Lower East Side, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from Northwestern University in Illinois.
Goodwin's undertakings in research and publishing manifest a keen interest in the interplay between human diversity, on the one hand, and human connectivity, on the other. This interest in reflected in contributions which Goodwin has made to the anthropological literature on people in a vast geographical swath inclusive of Europe, Arabia, Africa, and North America.
Birth, early family life, and education
Stefan Goodwin, the third of four children, was born and reared to age 16 in Norfolk, Virginia. His mother, Helen Jefferson Goodwin was among the first five African American women to earn a Ph.D. degree on the Homewood campus of the Johns Hopkins University. Cornelius Goodwin, his father, a general contractor and real estate broker, also earned a B.A. and M.A. degrees and spent a decade teaching in the public-school system of Baltimore, Maryland. His eldest sister, Senator Delores G. Kelley holds a Ph.D. and has been a member of the General Assembly of Maryland for more than 25 years. His sister Norma Goodwin was the third African American female allowed to earn a degree as a physician in the state of Virginia. After earning a degree in history, Barbara Cuffie, Goodwin's youngest sister, worked for the Federal Government as a computer security specialist. Except for a few years in his youth when Stefan Goodwin was a neo-Deist and later affiliated with the Baha'i World Faith, he has been a lifelong ethical humanist.
Personal Life
In Wonderment and Madness: Reflections of a Black Anthropologist, a memoir which awaits publication, Goodwin explains that he was born gay. By 1992, Goodwin and Dean R. Wagner, a professor of mathematics at Lock Haven University and a specialist in historic architecture, began to live together as domestic partners. On May 17, 2004, the first day that same-sex marriage become legal in the United States, Goodwin and Wagner, holding a placard with the number 17, entered the Cambridge Massachusetts City Hall shortly after midnight where they became the seventeenth same-sex couple in the United States to legally begin the process of getting married. This process of getting married was completed three days later. Well before this time, however, Goodwin and Wagner, when not teaching, had spent a decade traveling the world gathering data relevant to anthropology and historic architecture. This marriage and partnership remained mutually happy and productive until 2013 when at age 77, Dean Wagner lost his final fight with cancer.
Career and later life
Goodwin was first introduced to anthropology in a serious way in the early 1960s through a work by Cora Du Bois. While studying anthropology at Binghamton University, Professors Michael Horowitz and Egyptian-born Sofia Mohsen were important mentors. Working as an assistant to Professor Sofia Mohsen, Goodwin soon returned abroad to help manage an exchange program for Binghamton University students at the Royal University of Malta while also conducting his own research on death and mortuary customs. Shortly thereafter, Goodwin transferred into the well-established and legendary anthropology program at Northwestern University. At Northwestern, Goodwin availed himself of the opportunity to work closely with such anthropologists as Paul Bohannan, Ethel Albert, and Edward T. Hall. Stefan Goodwin returned to Malta to conduct the research required for writing his doctoral dissertation.
Upon earning M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in anthropology from Northwestern University in 1974, Goodwin joined the faculty of anthropology at Wayne State University in Michigan. In 1976, Morgan State University advertised for an anthropologist to replace retiring Professor Irene Diggs, a pioneer African American anthropologist and a longtime research associate of Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois. On being hired for this position, Goodwin resigned from the faculty at Wayne State University in 1976. At Morgan State University, Goodwin continued a career in anthropology as well as sociology while also serving as the coordinator for African studies. In the late 1970s, Goodwin joined with Professor Mario Zamora of Virginia's William and Mary College to establish the Third World Association of Anthropology.
During almost a decade of serving as the department chair at Morgan, Goodwin increased the department's emphasis on anthropology and helped establish a joint graduate program in sociology between Morgan State University and the University of Baltimore. He joined with Professor James Hudson in the development of a program of International and Global Studies at Morgan State University. It was in this connection that Hudson and Goodwin obtained a Fulbright Hayes grant and led a large contingent of professors, school teachers, and students to Liberia to study anthropology in 1978. While Associate Director of a U.S. Department of Education-Morgan State University Title VI grant for African Studies from 2001 to 2003, Goodwin returned to Africa to undertake anthropological and historical research in Senegal under the auspices of the Council of Education Program for Exchange Scholars.
Although engaged in travel, teaching, and research throughout his career as an anthropologist, Goodwin has been active in the administration of several public service and government commissions, boards, and task forces, often by gubernatorial appointment. For example, he has served as Chair of the Maryland Task Force to Study the History and Legacy of Slavery in Maryland, the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture, including as Collections Chair of the Banneker-Douglass Museum in Annapolis, Chair of the Commission to Coordinate the Study, Commemoration and Impact of Slavery's History and Legacy in Maryland, President of Baltimore Neighborhoods, Inc., President of Baltimore Ethical Society ( an affiliate of the American Ethical Union), and as an executive board member of Baltimore Crisis Response, Inc. Stefan Goodwin is a 2017 recipient of the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award.
Major work
Malta, Mediterranean Bridge (2002)
Africa's Legacies of Urbanization: Unfolding Saga of a Continent (2006)
Africa in Europe: Volume One, Antiquity into the Age of Global Exploration (2009)
Africa in Europe: Volume Two, Interdependencies, Relocations, and Globalization (2009)
Wonderment and Madness: A Black Anthropologist Reflects on Life (completed memoir)
A Native, Latino, African, Asian, and European People: The Americans (manuscript in progress)
Former Slave at the Eye of the Storm: Harvey Johnson and Liberation Struggle (manuscript in progress)
Other representative research
"Islam: A Dimension of Status for Women of Sudanese and Saharan Africa" delivered at the American Anthropological Association (1976)
"Temporal Dimensions of Social Order in Maltese Society: Calendar Analysis" in Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Alpha Kappa Delta Sociological Research Symposium (1977)
"Review. Culture and Language: The Black American Experience by William S. Hall and Roy O. Freedle in Association of Third World Anthropological Research Bulletin (1978)
"Emergence of a Continent from 'Racial' Dismemberment: Anthropology's Responsibility toward Africa," African Anthropology (1979)
"Stratification in the Philippines: A Review Article," The Morgan Journal of Education Research (1980)
"Afro-American Anthropologists as Scientists: A Moment in Time," ERIC publication #ED251040 (1981)
"Black History in Baltimore," a three-part series of articles in the Baltimore Afro-American (1982)
"Minority Participation in Maryland Governance as Reflected in the Management of Criminal Justice" delivered at the American Anthropological Association (1982)
"Socio-Economic Dimensions of International Study" (with Marcellina Offoha) in Understanding the International Student ed. by Regina Kaikai and Septimus Kaikai (1991)
"Kinship Study Revisited in a Postmodernist World" delivered at the International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (1998)
"America's Ethnic and Racial Self-Portrait on the Threshold of the 21st Century" delivered at the International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (1998)
Report with Recommendations of the Task Force to Study the History and Legacy of Slavery in Maryland to the Governor and General Assembly (1999)
"The Maltese Islands" in Countries and Their Cultures ed. by Melvin Ember and Carol Ember (2001)
"Egypt and Nubia: Stone Age (Later) in the Nile Valley" in Encyclopedia of African History (2004)
"Malta" in Encyclopedia of World Folklore (2005)
"Nationalism, National Identity, and Selected Issues of Race in Malta" in Colonial Encounters: Maltese Experiences of British Rule, 1800-1970s ed. by John Chirocop (2015)
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