Meet Dr. Gabby Yearwood
Dr. Yearwood has dedicated his personal, professional, and academic life to addressing inequity, suffering, and oppression—while also uplifting the remarkable ways people build communities rooted in creativity, love, and compassion. Outside of his work, he enjoys cooking, exploring the wilderness (no glamping allowed), traveling, and spending quality time with his family.
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Knowledge Areas
Anthropology
Sport & Society
Trained in both American and British Anthropology with a focus on Activist Anthropology and Black Intellectual traditions, Dr. Yearwood has a deep background in examining and theorizing on the human experience. His training gives him the tools to both de-colonize anthropology but also utilize the strategies and perspectives developed to address social inequity and suffering (sometimes caused directly by anthropology’s legacy).
As a life-long athlete, Division I Collegiate Athlete and researcher on the role of sport in shaping contemporary social ideas on race, gender, biology, politics and economics, Dr. Yearwood has spent the greater part of his life questioning why and how sport is so important to what it means to being human. Warning: After talking about sports with Dr. Yearwood you will never watch sports as a regular fan ever again.
Men & Masculinity
Race & Racism
As a society we spend a lot of time concerned about what men are doing, thinking and believing. But are we thinking critically about how people learn to be men? What are the criteria? Rules? Expectations? Dr. Yearwood has worked with people to help them better understand the ways in which men and masculinity impact the world we live in. He's worked with incarcerated men, fathers, athletes, youth, and male identifying individuals to engage in deep conversations about how they explore and think about what being a man or being masculine means to them.
As a trained Anthropologist Dr. Yearwood has expertise in helping people understand the scientific, historical and social factors that the globe has inherited on these issues. Understanding the the subtle and daily ways in which both categories shape our lives are only important if we also understand how they are a part of every social institution we engage with from schools, the law, popular culture, politics, science and religion.
