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Frank A. Salamone (born 1939) is an American anthropologist and sociologist whose worked has focused on Italian-Americans living in New York and on the peoples of various African nations, including Nigeria and Sudan. He is Professor Emeritus at Iona College.

Early life

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Salamone was born in 1939 in Rochester, New York.[1][2] He began his academic career at St. John Fisher College, where he earned his bachelor's in 1961. In 1966, he earned his Master's from the University of Rochester. In 1973, upon the invitation of then-head of the American Anthropological Association, Dr. Charles Frantz, Salamone matriculated to the State University of New York (SUNY) Buffalo, earning his PhD in 1973.[3]

Career

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In the mid 1970s, Salamone had begun his work studying various ethnic groups in Nigeria, publishing The Drug Problem in a Small Emirate in Northern Nigeria in the Journal des Africanistes in 1975. Salamone's article examined drug use among the Yauri people, inhabitants of the Yauri emirate in northwestern Sudan.[4] This was followed by a study of the Hausa people, Becoming Hausa: Ethnic Identity Change and its Implications for the Study of Ethnic Pluralism and Stratification, published in the October 1975 issue of Cambridge University Press' Africa.[5]

By 1985, Salamone had become the Chair of the Social Sciences Department at Elizabeth Seton College in Yonkers, New York. While at Elizabeth Seton, he continued his work on western Africa, publishing Colonialism and the Emergence of Fulani Identity in the Journal of African and Asian Studies in 1985.[6][7]

In 1988, Salamone's employer, Elizabeth Seton College, merged with Iona College, and Salamone went on to become chair of Iona's Sociology and Anthropology Department.[8][9] Salamone eventually earned the title of Professor Emeritus at Iona College.[10]

In 1993, Salamone retired from Iona College but remained in academia, serving as an online facilitator for the University of Phoenix for 16 years.[11] In 2008, he explored a new cultural area with his examination of Italian-Americans living in Rochester in the postwar years. Salamone's work, Italians in Rochester, 1940-1960, touched on anthropological, sociological, and historical themes.[12]

Personal life

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Salamone resides in Rochester, New York with his wife, Virginia O'Sullivan Salamone. He has seven children.[2][13]

References

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  1. ^ Salamone, Frank A. (1997). "The Yanomami and Their Interpreters". Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved 2023-11-12.
  2. ^ a b Salamone, Frank (2009). Viewing an American Ethnic Community: Rochester, New York, Italians in Photographs. University Press of America. ISBN 9780761848141.
  3. ^ "Frank A. Salamone". Who's Who Top Educators. 2021-11-11. Retrieved 2023-11-12.
  4. ^ Salamone, Franck (1975). "The drug problem in a small emirate in northern Nigeria". Journal des Africanistes. 45 (1): 187–191. doi:10.3406/jafr.1975.2189.
  5. ^ Salamone, Frank A. (October 12, 1975). "Becoming Hausa: Ethnic identity change and its implications for the study of ethnic pluralism and stratification". Africa. 45 (4): 410–424. doi:10.2307/1159454. JSTOR 1159454. S2CID 146452884 – via Cambridge University Press.
  6. ^ Salamone, Frank A. (1985). Anthropologists and Missionaries. Part II. Studies in Third World Societies. Publication Number Twenty-Six (Report). Studies in Third World Societies, Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23185 ($20.
  7. ^ "Frank Salamone | Iona University". Academia.edu. Retrieved 2023-11-12.
  8. ^ Feron, James (1988-12-11). "Iona College and Seton Move Toward a Marriage". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-11-12.
  9. ^ "Academic Author: Salamone, Frank A." Mellen Press. Retrieved 2023-11-12.
  10. ^ "Frank A. Salamone". The American Anthropological Association. Retrieved 2023-11-12.
  11. ^ "Frank A. Salamone, PhD". Millennium Magazine. p. 66. Retrieved 2023-11-11.
  12. ^ Salamone, Frank A (2008). "Italians in Rochester, New York 1940-1960". Mellen Press. Retrieved 2023-11-12.
  13. ^ Salamone, Frank A. (2014-07-03). Music and Magic: Charlie Parker, Trickster Lives!. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4438-6352-0.
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