This step-by-step guide will enable you to discover the major events and cultural issues in your family's history that have influenced and shaped your personality since birth. Dr. Valentine Rossilli Winsey, professor of anthropology and student of R. Buckminster Fuller, has helped over a thousand students document and better understand themselves and their roles within their own families. Your Self as History presents an innovative and well-tested approach to discovering the anthropological, sociological, psychological and historical aspects of your own personality and family history.
Originally designed for undergraduate students of Family History courses, this guide will also be extremely useful to cultural anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, historians and professors of English, as well as first, second, and third generation Americans who wish to learn about themselves and their ancestors.

Dr. Winsey is a tenured Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at Pace University. She was previously a Lecturer at Columbia University and the New School for Social Research, Associate Professor at City University of New York, Assistant Professor at Seton Hall University and Clinical Psychologist for the United States Veterans Administration.
She holds a Bachelors degree in Social Services from Montclair Teachers' College, and a Masters degree in Speech Communication form Denver University. She received her Ph. D. in Anthroplogy from New York University. Her thesis was a study of southern Italian immigrant survivors of the mass-migration to New York at the turn of the century, is a landmark of scholarship, and has been reprinted by Cornell University, The University of Minnesota and the Balch Institute of Philadelphia. She presented an excerpt at the United States Bicentennial celebration ceremonies at Georgetown University.