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Affiliated Faculty and Areas of Interest         

Native American Studies at Michigan has grown rapidly in the first few years of this century. With a dozen faculty, some are members of the Gros Ventre, Ojibwe, Oklahoma Choctaw, Comanche, and other nations. Others are of Dakota, African-American, and Euro-American heritages.


Philip Deloria  (Dakota Heritage), Professor of history and American culture. Research interests include 19th and 20th century U.S. cultural history and Native American history.  pdeloria@umich.edu, 734-936-6872

 


Gregory Dowd , Professor of history and American culture; Director of the Program in American Culture. Interests: Eastern Native North American history; Early American history.  dowdg@umich.edu, 734-763-1460


Lincoln Faller, Professor of English language and literature. faller@umich.edu, 734-647-7477


Joseph P. Gone  (Gros Ventre), Assistant Professor of psychology and American culture. Research interests include ethnopsychological investigation of self, identity, personhood, and social relations in American Indian cultural contexts vis-à-vis the mental health professions.  jgone@umich.edu, http://sitemaker.umich.edu/joseph.p.gone/home , 734-647-3958


Howard Kimewon, Lecturer I in the Program in American Culture. Research Interests include Ojibwe language and culture. hkimewon@umich.edu, http://www-personal.umich.edu/~hkimewon/ ,  734-615-8869


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Irving "Hap" McCue (Ojibwe). Lecturer II, Program in American Culture


Barbra Meek (Comanche), Assistant Professor of anthropology. Research interests include linguistic anthropology, endangered languages and language revitalization, Athabaskan.  bameek@umich.edu, 734-936-3192


Tiya Miles, Director of Native American Studies (NAS), Associate Professor in the Program in American Culture and the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies. Research interests include African American and Native American interrelated histories; 19th-century U.S. women's history; feminist writing by women of color.  tiya@umich.edu, 734-615-8869


Margaret Noori  (Ojibwe Heritage), Lecturer I, Program in American Culture, currently teaches courses in Ojibwe language and Anishinaabe Literature. Her work primarily focuses on the recovery and maintenance of Anishinaabe language and literature.  Current research interests include language proficiency and assessment, and the study of indigenous literary aesthetics and rhetoric.  For more information or to view current projects visit www.umich.edu/~ojibwe/ where she and her current students have created a space for language that is shared by academics and the native community.


Andrea Smith Assistant Professor in the Program in American Culture and the Department of Women's Studies. She is the author of Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances (Duke). She is also the author of Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide, the editor of The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex, and is the co-editor of The Color of Violence (all South End Press).  tsalagi@umich.edu, 734-231-1845


Gustavo Verdesio , Associate Professor in the Program in American Culture and the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures. Research interests include colonial studies, Native American studies, pre-contact indigenous societies, material culture, popular culture, theory.  more information


Michael Witgen (Ojibwe), Assistant Professor of American culture and history. Research interests include American Indian and early American history, the North American West, borderlands history, and pre-confederation Canada.  mwitgen@umich.edu, 734-647-5419


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Selected Faculty Publications

Hardly comprehensive, this list conveys a quick sense of faculty interests.  For more information, please go to the faculty member's individual website.

  • Clarkson G: Racial imagery and Native Americans: A first look at the empirical evidence behind the Indian mascot controversy. Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law 11:393-408, 2003. 
  • Clarkson G: Not because they are brown, but because of Ea: Why the good guys lost in Rice v. Cayetano, and why they didn't have to lose. Michigan Journal of Race and Law 7:317-355, 2002. 
  • Clarkson G: Reclaiming jurisprudential sovereignty: A tribal judiciary analysis. University of Kansas Law Review 50:473-521, 2002. 
  • Deloria PJ: Indians in Unexpected Places. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004.
  • Deloria PJ: Playing Indian. New Haven: Yale, 1998.
  • Deloria PJ, Salisbury N, eds.: A Companion to American Indian History. Oxford, UK and Malden, Mass: Blackwell, 2001.
  • Dowd GE: The American Revolution to the Mid-nineteenth Century. In Raymond Fogelson, ed., and William Sturtevant, gen. ed. Handbook of the North American Indians: Southeast; Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 2005.
  • Dowd GE: War Under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations, and the British Empire. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2002.
  • Dowd GE: A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity: 1745-1815. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1992.
  • Gone JP: As if reviewing his life: Bull Lodge's narrative and the mediation of self-representation. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 30(1):67-86, 2006.
  • Gone JP: Mental health services for Native Americans in the 21st century United States. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice 35(1):10-18, 2004.
  • Meek BA, Jules L: Kaska classificatory verbs: A preliminary analysis. In Siri Tuttle and Gary Holton, eds. Proceedings of the 2001 Athabaskan Languages Conference, Alaska Native Language Center Working Papers; Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center, (1):54-74, 2001.
  • Meek BA: And the injun goes "How!"?: Representations of American Indian English in white public space. Language in Society 35(1):93-128, 2006.
  • Meek BA, Messing J: Framing indigenous languages as secondary to matrix languages. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 38(2), 2007.
  • Miles TA: Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
  • Miles TA: Uncle Tom was an Indian: Tracing the red in black slavery. In James Brooks, ed.: Confounding the Color Line: Indian-Black Relations in North America;  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.
  • Miles TA with Naylor-Ojurongbe C: African Americans in southeastern societies. In Raymond Fogelson, ed.: Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 14 Southeast;   Washington DC: Smithsonian, forthcoming.
  • Smith AL: Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide. Boston: South End Press, 2005.
  • Smith AL: Reparations and the question of land. Union Seminary Review, 2003. 
  • Smith AL: Women of color and reproductive choice: combating the population paradigmJournal of Feminist Studies in Religion Winter, 1994.
  • Smith AL: Better dead than pregnant: The colonization of native women's health. In Anannya Bhattacharjee and Jael Silliman, eds.,  Dangerous Intersections  II; Boston, South End Press, 2001.
  • Verdesio G, ed.: Latin American Subaltern Studies Revisited, thematic issue of the journal, Disposition, 52, 2005.
  • Verdesio G, co-editor: Colonialism Past and Present: Reading and Writing about Colonial Latin American Texts Today. Albany: SUNY Press, 2002.
  • Verdesio G, co-editor: Forgotten Conquests. Re-reading New World History from the Margins. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001.
  • Witgen M: The rituals of possession: Native identity and the invention of empire in 17th century western north America. Ethnohistory, forthcoming.
  • Witgen M: An Infinity of Nations: Indians, Immigrants, and the Making of National Space and Racial Identities in America's Northern Borderlands.  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, in progress.

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