Erick DuPree

Dr. Erick DuPree is an anthropologist (PhD, Queen’s University), author, and essayist.

He specializes in dolls and material culture, approaching dolls as cultural objects that reflect identity, gender, and memory.

DuPree has lectured at the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and taught material culture studies at the University of the Arts. His work explores the reclamation of self, evolving ideas of masculinity, and what it means to live in conscious relationship with others. Drawing on both scholarship and lived experience, he brings an anthropological lens to how identity, desire, and meaning are shaped over time.