From the Smithsonian Museums
Alcione M. Amos, currently a Museum Curator at the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum in Washington, D.C., is originally from Brazil and has lived and worked in the United States for five decades. She received a MSLS from Catholic University in Washington, D.C. Ms. Amos worked as a researcher and librarian at the World Bank, Washington, D.C. for more than two decades while at the same time maintaining a career as an independent scholar. Her fields of interest include post-slavery societies such as those of the Black Seminoles and African Americans in Washington, D.C. after the Civil War, and Afro-Brazilians who moved to West Africa in the 19th century. She also has studied the Gullah communities of coastal Georgia and South Carolina.
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