Sabiyha Prince, Ph.D.
Anthropologist/Artist
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology
City University of New York Graduate School and University
Center, New York, NY
BA Communication ArtsMarist College, Poughkeepsie, NY
EXHIBITS
Artist in Residence, Petworth Artists Collaborative
Exhibit: Hanks’s Cocktail Bar May 4th – June 30th, 2018
Coalesced: Colored Nations,
Exhibit: The Anacostia Arts Center, May 18th – 20th, 2018
(with photographer Denise Wright)
No Plastic (Crossing Oceans) 36 x 36 Acrylic on canvas
The Hill Center Juried by The Corcoran Art Museum
Exhibit: June 27th – September 23rd, 2018
“All Seasons at Once” 48×30 Acrylic on canvas
WORK EXPERIENCE
Coordinator of Membership and Political Education
Empower DC August 2018 – present
Qualitative Researcher, Houses of Worship and the Environment (Wards 7 and 8),
Anacostia Community Museum Sept 2014-2015
Humanities Scholar, Greenleaf Gardens History Project Summer 2014
Washington, DC, DC Humanities Council grant
- Advised participants in project designed to collect oral histories and memorabilia from residents of public housing complex threatened with demolition.
Humanities Scholar, Revisiting Talley’s Corner Summer 2014
Washington, DC, DC Humanities Council grant
Adjunct Professor, Department of Criminal Justice and Applied Social Sciences,
Coppin State University, Baltimore, MD Aug-Dec- 2013
Visiting Anthropologist, St. Mary’s College of Maryland Fall 2013
Consultant/Data Analyst, Community Attitudes Toward the
Anacostia River (Wards 7 and 8), Anacostia Community Museum Summer 2013
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, American University,
Washington, DC Aug 2003-Dec 2011
