Marcus D. Watson

Dr. Marcus Watson earned his Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology in 2010 and has since taught and researched for thirteen years—nine years at the University of Wyoming followed by the last four years at Buffalo State University.

At Buffalo State, Dr. Watson is an associate professor of Africana Studies and Individualized Studies. His research and teaching focus on the Black Freedom Struggle globally, and international development, digital technology, and social activism in South Africa, Ghana, and the United States. Based on two ethnographic studies conducted on the African continent and a critical understanding of existential philosophy, depth psychology, and the cultural worldviews paradigm, Dr. Watson has developed a Black psychology theory called “half-connecting” that helps to explain the self-defeating paradoxes of Western modernity.