Linda Donley-Reid
Linda Donley-Reid | |
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| Born | Linda Lucille Wiley July 19, 1945 Evansville, Indiana, U.S. |
| Died | January 9, 2020 (age 74) |
| Occupation(s) | Museum curator, archaeologist, clinical psychologist |
Linda Lucille Wiley Donley-Reid (July 19, 1945 – January 9, 2020) was an American museum curator, archaeologist and clinical psychologist. She was the first curator of the Kitale Museum in Kenya, when it opened in 1973.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Linda Lucille Wiley[2] was born in Evansville, Indiana, and graduated from Evansville Central High School in 1963[3]. She is the daughter of Gordon Wiley and Marjorie Upchurch Wiley.[4][5] She attended Indiana University, where she was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority,[6][7] and she earned a degree in zoology at the University of Kentucky. She completed doctoral studies at Kings College, Cambridge, with her dissertation titled "The Social Uses of Swahili Space and Objects" (1984).[8] She changed fields, and earned a master's degree in clinical psychology at San Francisco State University in 1990.[9]
Career
[edit]Donley-Reid was a ornithological research assistant at the Smithsonian Institution after college.[5] She was a Peace Corps volunteer and museum curator in Kenya in the early 1970s,[10] at the Kitale Museum[1] and the Lamu Museum.[11] She was the first curator at the Kitale Museum when it opened in 1973, under the supervision of Richard Leakey.[12] She worked on Swahili ethnographic exhibitions at the Hearst Museum of Anthropology in 1984, at Cambridge University in 1984, and at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1999.[9]
As an archaeologist, Donley-Reid directed excavations in Kenya, including eighteenth-century traders' houses and slave dwellings on Lamu and Pate Islands. She reconstructed Toad Hall, a 1480s Suffolk wool trader's house, in Napa, California.[13][14] She was a licensed pilot,[12] and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.[4]
Donley-Reid was a professional therapist in San Francisco from 1992.[9]
Publications
[edit]Donley-Reid's articles appeared in scholarly journalist including the African Archaeological Review[15] and Archaeological Papers of the American Anthopological Association.[16]
- "Come Visit! A report on the new museum of Western Kenya at Kitale" (1975)
- "Life in the Swahili Town House Reveals the Symbolic Meaning of Spaces and Artefact Assemblages" (1987)[15]
- "The power of Swahili porcelain, beads and pottery" (1990)[16]
- "A Structuring Structure: The Swahili House" (1990, with Susan Kent)[17]
- "Dream Interpretation and Spirits on the Kenyan Coast" (2001)[18]
- "Figurines, Wall Murals and Daggers: Objects and Art as Emotional Support for Cognitive Development and the Fear of Death" (2014)[19]
Personal life
[edit]Linda Wiley married physician Phillip Edward Donley in 1965.[2] He died in a plane crash in 1971.[12] She married physician Michael J. Reid during her time at Cambridge.[8] She died in 2020, at the age of 74.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Donley, Linda. "Come Visit! A report on the new museum of Western Kenya at Kitale." Kenya Past and Present 6, no. 1 (1975): 36-38.
- ^ a b "Miss Linda Wiley Bride". Evansville Press. 1965-12-31. p. 4. Retrieved 2025-07-04 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "311 Central Seniors To Get Diplomas". newspapers.com. June 4, 1963. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
- ^ a b McKinney, Margaret (1982-01-17). "An archaeological find: Native daughter strikes Lamu 'gold'". Evansville Press. p. 44. Retrieved 2025-07-03 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b McKinney, Margaret (1983-10-23). "How a New Harmony bird entered Smithsonian". Evansville Press. pp. 4, 6. Retrieved 2025-07-03 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Linda Wiley Fiancee of Phillip Donley". The Daily Sentinel-Tribune. 1965-08-26. p. 6. Retrieved 2025-07-04 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Evansville Press Fri, Jul 30, 1965 ·Page 8 Miss Linda Lucille Wiley Students Become Engaged". newspapers.com. Jul 30, 1965. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
- ^ a b Donley-Reid, Linda W. (1984-03-25). "The Social Uses of Swahili Space and Objects". PhD dissertation, Kings College, Cambridge.
- ^ a b c d "In Memoriam: Linda Donley-Reid". Home of Archaeology at Berkeley. Retrieved 2025-07-03.
- ^ "Architecture, Africa talks set". Evansville Press. 1974-04-03. p. 28. Retrieved 2025-07-03 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "'Round Town". Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph. 1978-06-08. p. 57. Retrieved 2025-07-03 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c McKinney, Margaret (1974-04-14). "Museum bug's bite; Youthful curator". Evansville Press. p. 21. Retrieved 2025-07-03 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Fitzgerald, Mary-Anne (1996-07-14). "California Tudor roadshow". The Independent. pp. 142, 143. Retrieved 2025-07-04 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Aaronson, Tara (April 12, 1995). "Napa's Medieval Transplant; Couple ships 500-year-old-house from England". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ a b Donley, Linda W. (1987). "Life in the Swahili Town House Reveals the Symbolic Meaning of Spaces and Artefact Assemblages". The African Archaeological Review. 5: 181–192. ISSN 0263-0338.
- ^ a b Donley-Reid, Linda W. (1990). "The Power of Swahili Porcelain, Beads and Pottery". Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association. 2 (1): 47–59. doi:10.1525/ap3a.1990.2.1.47. ISSN 1551-8248.
- ^ Donley-Reid, Linda W., and Susan Kent. "A structuring structure: The Swahili house." Domestic architecture and the use of space (1990): 114-126.
- ^ Donley-Reid, Linda W. "Dream interpretation & spirits on the Kenyan coast" Kenya Past and Present 32, no. 1 (2001): 63-71.
- ^ Donley-Reid, L. (2014). "Figurines, Wall Murals and Daggers: Objects and Art as Emotional Support for Cognitive Development and the Fear of Death" Archived 2022-01-27 at the Wayback Machine UC Berkeley: Archaeological Research Facility.