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Doug Armstrong

Douglas V. Armstrong
Professor,
Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence
Ph.D., UCLA, 1983
Office: 209 Maxwell
HallPhone: 315-443-2405
darmstrong@maxwell.syr.edu

Bio:
I am an historical archaeologist whose research interests involve studies of culture change as related to situations of contact and interaction. I am also involved in the study of public policy and archaeology. While my primary scholarship revolves around work in the Caribbean on diaspora related topics and in New York State on public policy and “Freedom Trail” topics, I serve as the repatriation officer for Syracuse University and have worked closely with the Haudenosaunee on several projects including reburial of returned relatives. In all that I do, I am dedicated to integrating teaching into the research setting and was recently named a Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence. I am also dedicated to service to my profession and community and have recently completed terms as President of the Society for Historical Archaeology and the Preservation Association of Central New York. In 2002 I was honored with Syracuse University's Spirit of the Lanterns Community Service Award.

Courses Taught
ANT 445/645 Public Policy and Archeology

Selected Publications:

• Creole Transformation from Slavery to Freedom: Historical Archaeology of the East End Community, St. John, Virgin Islands.  Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 2003.
• Clay Faces in an Abolitionist Church: The Wesleyan Methodist Church in Syracuse, New York."  Historical Archaeology 37.2 (2003): 19-37.  (With LouAnn Wurst)
• "House-Yard Burials of Enslaved Laborers in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica."International Journal of Historical Archaeology 7.1 (2003): 33-65. (With Mark Fleischman)
• "Attaining the Full Potential of Historical Archaeology." Historical Archaeology 35.2 (2001): 9-13."
• Between Fact and Fantasy: Assessing Our Knowledge of Domestic Sites Archaeology."  Nineteenth-Century Domestic Archaeology in New York State. Ed. John P. Hart.  New York State Museum Bulletin. 2000. (With Lou Ann Wurst and Elizabeth Kellar)
• Archaeological Sites and Preservation Planning in Central New York: A Unified Site File and GIS Database for NYSDOT Region 3. New York State Historic Preservation Office. 2000. (With LouAnn Wurst and Elizabeth J. Kellar)
• Accessing the Past: The Iroquois Gas Transmission System Gas Pipeline Archaeological Collection. Technical Summary, with goals and recommendations for Collections Management Procedures, with CD-ROM Catalog. Syracuse, 1999.

Phil Arnold

Philip P. Arnold
Associate Professor
Ph.D., History of Religions, University of Chicago Divinity School, 1992
Office: 508 Hall of Languages
Phone: 315-443-3861
pparnold@syr.edu
http://rootsofpeacemaking.syr.edu
http://www.peacecouncil.net/NOON/

Bio:
I specialize in Native American traditions of the Americas with particular emphasis on contact between Europeans and pre-Columbian Mesoamerican and Haudenosaunee (i.e., Longhouse, or Traditional Iroquois) civilizations. My work on Nahuatl texts and archaeological materials from central Mexico has focused on connections between indigenous rituals and their material world. Articles have included topics on the ritual symbolism of food, cultural contact in the development of religion in the Americas, and "book culture" in Native communities. Current work highlights the local history and religious landscape of the Erie Canal and of New York State, utilizing the issues and insights of Haudenosaunee traditions. I continue to collaborate with the leadership of the Onondaga Nation on a variety of projects which have to do with their historic ‘land-rights action.’ These include a year long educational series called “Onondaga Land Rights and Our Common Future” and “Roots of Peacemaking: Indigenous Values, Global Crisis.” Websites for these projects are above. I am a founding member of the group Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation (NOON).

Courses Taught:
REL 101 Religions of the World
REL 103 Religion and Sports
REL 142 Native American Religions
REL 244 Indigenous Religions
REL 347 Religion and the Conquest of America
REL 348 Religion and American Consumerism
REL 449 Religious Dimensions of Whiteness
REL 642/ANT 691 Critical Issues in the Study of Native Americans
REL 693 Materiality of Religion

Selected Publications:

• Sacred Landscapes and Cultural Politics: Planting a Tree (co-edited with Ann Grodzins Gold). Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2001
• Eating Landscape: Aztec and European Occupation of Tlalocan. University Press of Colorado, 1999.
• "Sacred Landscapes and Global Religion: Reflections on the Significance of Indigenous Traditions on University Culture," in Religion and Global Culture: New Terrain in the Study of Religion and the Work of Charles H. Long, ed. Jennifer Reid. Lexington Press. Manuscript under review.
• "Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Thanksgiving and Private Property in Upstate New York." Sekai no minshu shukyo (Folk Religions in the World), ed. Michio Araki. Kyoto: Minerva Publishing Company. In press, 2002.
• "Paper Rituals and the Mexican Landscape," in Representing Ritual: Performance, Text, and Image in the Work of Sahagún. Edited by Davíd Carrasco and Eloise Quiñones Keber. University Press of Colorado. In press, 2002.
• "Sacred Landscapes of New York State and the Problem of Religion in America," in Sacred Landscapes and Cultural Politics: Planting a Tree by Philip P. Arnold and Ann Grodzins Gold, eds. Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2001.
• "The Insignificance of New York City." Aboriginal People and the Fur Trade. 8th North American Fur Trade Conference. Published by Mohawk Nation of Akwesasne and printed by Delco Printing, Ottawa. 2001.
• "Parallel Consumptive Cosmologies," in Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage: From Teotihuacan to the Aztecs. Davíd Carrasco, Lindsay Jones, and Scott Sessions, eds. University Press of Colorado, 2000.

Chris De Corse

Christopher DeCorse
Associate Professor
Ph.D., UCLA, 1989
209 Maxwell Hall
Phone: 315-443-4647
crdecors@maxwell.syr.edu

Bio:
I am an archaeologist with research interests in culture contact and change, material culture studies, and general anthropology. I have excavated at sites in the United States and the Caribbean, but my primary area of research has been in the archaeology, ethnohistory, and ethnography of sub-Saharan Africa. I am particularly concerned with how archaeology can help us understand the transformations that occurred in indigenous societies during the period of the Atlantic trade.

Although my principal research area is Africa, I have had long standing commitment to Native American Studies. I have worked on the protection and mitigation of Native American sites in California, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire in cultural resource management settings.  I am committed to the sensitive treatment of native rights and concerns in archaeological research and these issues are advocated in my general textbooks.

Courses Taught:
ANT 447/647 Archaeology of North America

Selected Publications:

• In the Beginning. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2004. (With Brian Fagen.)
• An Archaeology of Elmina: Africans and Europeans on the Gold Coast, 1400-1900. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Press, 2001.
• Anthropology: A Global Perspective. 4th Ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001.(With R. Scupin)
• West Africa During the Atlantic Slave Trade: Archaeological Perspectives. New York: Leicester University Press, 2001.
• The Record of the Past: An Introduction to Archaeology and Physical Anthropology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000.
• Worldviews in Human Expression. Office of Instructional Development, University of Maryland University College, 1994.

Sara French

Sara L. French
Visiting Assistant Professor, Fine Arts
Visiting Instructor, Department of Landscape Architecture, SUNY-ESF
Ph.D., Binghamton University, 2000
Office: 415 Marshall Hall
Phone: 315 470 6548

Bio:
I am an Art Historian with a background in Early Modern English Architectural History. My graduate work included studies of museum exhibitions and native cultures and the politics of repatriation. My current interests are expanding to include pre-contact American landscape and the built environment; representations of Native Americans in 19th century painting; and contemporary Native American film and performance.

Courses:
FIA 346 Native North American Art
FIA 347 Art & Environment in American Culture

Robin Kimmerer

Robin Kimmerer*
Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology
Ph.D., Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1982
Office: 351 IIlick Hall (SUNY-ESF)
Phone: 315-470-6785
rkimmer@esf.edu

Bio:
I am a plant ecologist on the faculty at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York and Director of the Center for Native peoples and the Environment. The mission of the ESF Center for Native Peoples and the Environment is to create programs that draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge in support of our shared goals of environmental sustainability. My research interests include the ecology of mosses and the role of traditional ecological knowledge in ecological restoration. In collaboration with tribal partners and my students I have an active research program in the ecology and restoration of plants of cultural significance to Native people. I have developed university courses in aspects of botany, ecology, ethnobotany and Native American Natural Resource Management. I am active in efforts to broaden access to environmental science training for Native students, and to introduce the benefits of traditional ecological knowledge to the scientific community, in a way that respects and protects indigenous knowledge. I am the co-founder of the Traditional Ecological Knowledge section of the Ecological Society of America. I am an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. My interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities, but restoration of our relationships to land.

Courses Taught:
EFB 226 General Botany
EFB 446/646 Ecology of Mosses
EFB 496 Field Ethnobotany
EFB 496 Land and Culture: Indigenous Issues and the Environment
EFB 497 Plants and Culture

Selected Publications:

• Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 2003.
• "Weaving Traditional Ecological Knowledge into Biological Education: A Call to Action." BioScience 52 (2002):432-438.
• "Maintaining the Mosaic: The Role of Indigenous Burning in Land Management. Journal of Forestry 99 (2001): 36-41. (With F.K. Lake)
• "Native Knowledge for Native Ecosystems." Journal of Forestry 98.8 (2000): 4-9.

Gregg Lambert

Gregg Lambert
Professor of Comparative Literature
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1995
Office: 401 Hall of Languages
Phone: 315-443-4950
glambert@syr.edu

Bio:
An area of my specialization in comparative literary traditions includes emergent literatures, specifically the contemporary novel written by Native American authors. I offer an undergraduate seminar on the contemporary Native American novel bi-yearly, which includes a survey of historical issues and events that have impacted North American native communities and which form the background of the narrative works by contemporary Native American writers.

Courses Taught:
ETS 315 Introduction to the Contemporary American Indian Novel
ETS 220 Native American Literature (Honors)

Selected Publications:

• The Return of the Baroque: Art, Theory, and Culture in the Modern Age.  New York and London: Continuum Books, forthcoming 2004.
• The Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze.  New York and London: Continuum Books, 2002.
• Report to the Academy (re: The New Conflict of Faculties).  Davis Group Publishers, 2001.
• Deleuze and Space.  Edinburgh: University of Edinburge Press, forthcoming 2004.  (Co-edited with Ian Buchanan.)
• Lyotard: Selected Criticism.  London: Routledge, forthcoming 2005.  (Co-edited with Victor E. Taylor.)

Richard Loder

Richard Loder
Director of Native American Studies,
Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1978
Office: 314 Tolley Hall
Phone: 315-443-4580
rrloder@maxwell.syr.edu

Bio:
I am a sociologist of Delaware descent who specializes in contemporary Native American issues and problems. This has been a personal as well as professional interest of mine for over 35 years.

My research and teaching interests range from Native American movements, law and policy, land claims, gaming and gambling, higher education, and employment issues in the public sector. I continue to focus my research on Native American self-determination and backlash; the Development and the Socio-economic Impact of the Oneida Indian Land Claim in Central New York; and Native American Studies in Higher  Education

After completing undergraduate work at Syracuse University (1967, B.A.), I began graduate training in sociology at the University of South Dakota where I became involved with the Institute of Indian Studies and the Doris Duke Oral History Project. After attending USD for two years I returned to Syracuse University as a Ph.D. student.

Upon graduation, I began teaching at the State University of New York, College at Oswego.  I founded the Native American Studies Program there and served as director of that program. While at Oswego I was the recipient of numerous grants which helped to develop the undergraduate curriculum and college wide programming in Native Studies. After retiring from SUNY-Oswego, I joined the Department of Sociology at Syracuse University as a part-time Professor of Sociology.

From 1988 to 1990 I served as a formal consultant to the Commissioner, New York State Department of Civil Service assisting that agency in developing ways to increase the number of Native Americans in the work force.  In 1998, I received the outstanding service award from the Native American Indian Education Association of New York 

Courses taught:
NAT 105 Introduction to Native American Studies
NAT 441 Federal Indian Policy and Native American Identity
NAT 444 Contemporary Native American Movements

Selected Mass Media Forums and Publications:

• “Why Native American Sovereignty Makes Sense For All Of Us” Onondaga Land Rights and Our Common Future Educational Series. (2006).
• “The Land Claim: Issues and Controversies” WRVO-FM Talk of the Region. Spring 2000.
• Kul Wicasa Oyate (Lower Brule Sioux Tribe) Pierre, SD: State Publishing Co., 1971 (with George Estes), First community history by the Lower Brule Sioux tribe.

Scott Lyons

Scott Richard Lyons
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., English, Miami University, 2000
Office: 409 Hall of Languages
Phone: 315-443-8785
srlyons@syr.edu

Bio:
I am Ojibwe and grew up at Leech Lake Reservation in Minnesota. Before coming to Syracuse in 2002, I taught English and Anishinaabe Studies at Leech Lake Tribal College and worked with activist groups seeking Ojibwe language revitalization, environmental justice, and community renewal. I also performed as an actor with a Native theater company and lugged my kids around the summer powwow circuit. (Traditional dancers never get old, I learned, just dusty.)

My academic interests include indigenous literatures and public writing, Native American rhetorical and philosophical traditions, Indian public intellectuals, and the literary genre of the personal essay. For at least two centuries, it has been somewhat routine to find evidence of "assimilation" in Native texts composed in English; my work rethinks that notion and examines the history of Indian writing as a consistent movement toward survival and self-determination. Likewise, I believe that a whole array of new cultural forms and expressions--from powwows, to Native Christianity, to hip-hop-inflected reservation youth culture--can often be interpreted as politically and socially meaningful acts of resistance and critique. This isn't to toss tradition into the ashcan of history; on the contrary, there are usually more continuities than breaks between tradition and new cultural forms, and new ones often lead folks back to more traditional ones. Like those happy songs we call "forty-niners," indigenous cultural expressions both change and endure to meet the needs of the people in a particular place and time, and to interact with the world at large. Overall, my research and teaching consistently finds Native peoples not only surviving, but thriving, and continuing to practice sane alternatives to the domination, exploitation, war, unsustainability, spiritual malaise, and relentless conformity that characterizes so much of what has been termed "the new world order."

Selected Courses Taught:
Nineteenth Century Native American Literature: The Rhetoric of Removal
The Literature and Culture of the Red Power Movement
Assimilation and Its Discontents: Representations of Indian Education
Savagism and Civilization: Representing Indians in American Literature
American Indian Literary Nationalism
The Indigenous Public Sphere

Selected Publications:

• X-Marks: Contested Concepts in Indigenous Discourse. Manuscript under review.
• “There's No Translation for It: The Rhetorical Sovereignty of Indigenous Languages.” Cross-Language Relations in Composition. Eds. Bruce Horner, Min-Zhan Lu, and Paul Matsuda. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2008.
• “In Vine Veritas.” Sovereign Bones: New Native American Writing II. Ed. Eric Gansworth. New York : Nation Books, 2007.
• “The Prophet Ward.” Journal of Contemporary Thought 24 (Winter 2006).
• “The Left Side of the Circle: American Indians and Progressive Politics.” Radical Relevance: Essays Toward a Scholarship of the Whole Left Eds. Steven Rosendale and Laura Gray Rosendale. Albany , NY : SUNY Press, 2005.
• “Rhetorical Sovereignty: What Do American Indians Want from Writing?” College Composition and Communication 51.1 (February 2000).

Jack Manno

Jack Manno*
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, SUNY ESF
Ph.D. Syracuse University, 2003
211A Marshall Hall
422-9633

I am a professor of environmental studies at the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry. My research interests include traditional environmental knowledge, ecosystem-based management, and environmental implications of the Onondaga Land Rights Action, as well as environmental implications of economic policy, sustainable development, environmental leadership, ecological economics, and environmental NGO’s and world politics.

Rob Porter

Robert Odawi Porter*
Director, Center for Indigenous Law, Governance and Citizenship
Dean’s Research Professor of Indigenous Nations Law
Professor of Law
J.D. Harvard Law School, 1989
Office: 244E E.I. White Hall
Phone: 315-443-1712
odawi@law.syr.edu

Bio:
I am a citizen (Heron Clan) of the Seneca Nation of Indians and was raised on the Allegany Territory in upstate New York.  I am the son of Lana Redeye and the grandson of Leonard Redeye and the late Eleanor Bowen Redeye.

After graduating from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and economics in 1986, I attended Harvard Law School where I received my Juris Doctorate degree.  I then joined the firm of Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin in Washington, D.C. and practiced in the areas of business law and government relations.

In 1991, I was appointed as the first Attorney General of the Seneca Nation.  In that position, I developed an in-house legal department to administer the Nation's legal affairs and eventually was authorized to oversee the Nation's law enforcement agencies.  I successfully pursued amendments to the Nation's constitution to strengthen its judiciary, authored a variety of Seneca laws, represented the Nation in its own courts, and successfully negotiated various conflicts with New York State and its governmental subdivisions.  During this time, I also served as Adjunct Professor at the University of Buffalo School of Law and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Tulsa College of Law.

In 1995, I left my position with the Seneca Nation to become an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kansas and Adjunct Professor at Haskell Indian Nations University.  At KU, I founded the Tribal Law and Government Center for the joint purpose of (i) preparing a new generation of advocates, particularly Indigenous peoples, for careers representing the legal interests of Indigenous nations and (ii) to establish a forum for research and scholarship relating to Indigenous law and governance.  I received tenure and was promoted to full professor in 2000.  In 2002, I left Kansas to join the law faculty at the University of Iowa and, in 2003, left Iowa to join the law faculty at Syracuse University and to launch the Center for Indigenous Law, Governance & Citizenship.

I have served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri since 1997 and am a consulting expert or counsel to several Indian nations and Indian organizations.

There are several facets to my work.  My primary focus is the reform of Indigenous governments and legal systems to further the inherent right of self-determination.  This includes reform of both the internal law of the Indian nations, but also the American laws that interfere with the exercise of self-government.  I also focus on the challenges of advocating for Indigenous nations and peoples, including questions of Indian political participation and citizenship.  At the broadest level, I am concerned about the survival of culturally distinct Indigenous societies in an increasingly homogenized world and how tribal, colonial, and international institutions can be modified to facilitate that survival.

Courses Taught:
Indigenous Peoples Under American Law
Indigenous Nations Law and Government
Sovereignty, Colonialism and the Indigenous
Nations
Indigenous Peoples Under International Law

Selected Publications

• Reviving the Two Row Wampum: Indigenous Peoples, Citizenship, and American Politics (under contract with Cambridge University Press)
• Sovereignty, Colonialism, and the Future of the Indigenous Nations(under contract with Carolina Academic Press)
• The Endangered Onodowaga (Seneca) in Endangered Peoples of the Americas and the Caribbean (Greenwood Press 2001)
• Guide to the Judiciary (Peoples Press 1990)
• Tribal Disobedience Journal of Gender, Race & Justice (forthcoming 2003)
• Pursuing the Path of Indigenization in the Era of Emergent International Law Governing the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 5 Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal 123 (2002)
• The Meaning of Indigenous Nation Sovereignty, 34 Arizona State Law Journal 75 (Spring 2002)
• Two Kinds of Indians, Two Kinds of Indian Nation Sovereignty: A Surreply to Professor LaVelle, 11 Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 629 (Spring 2002)
• Cleaning Up the Colonizer’s Mess: An Important Role for Legal Scholarship About the Indigenous Nations, 50 Kansas Law Review 431 (April 2002)
• A Seneca Indian in King Arthur’s Law School: Observations Along the Way, 7 Michigan Journal of Race & Law 529 (Spring 2002)
• Decision of the American Indian Nations Supreme Court in Kagama and Mahawaha v. The United States of America, 10 Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 465 (Spring 2001)
• Indian Gaming Regulation as Neo-colonialism, 5 Gaming Law Review 299 (2001)
• Why Indigenous Nations Studies?, 1 Indigenous Nations Studies Journal 71 (Spring 2000) (with Michael Yellow Bird)
• Decolonizing, Legalizing, and Modernizing New York State’s Indian Law, 63 Albany Law Review 125 (1999)
• The Demise of the Ongwehoweh and the Rise of the Native Americans: Redressing the Genocidal Act of Forcing American Citizenship Upon Indigenous Peoples, 15 Harvard Blackletter Law Journal 107 (Spring 1999)
• Decolonizing Indigenous Governance: Observations on Restoring Greater Faith and Legitimacy in the Government of the Seneca Nation, 8 Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 97 (Winter 1999)
• Foreword: The 2^nd Annual Tribal Law and Governance Conference, 8 Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 71 (Winter 1999)
• Crisis Pending: Governance in Tribal America, 16 Native Americas 18 (Spring 1999) (edited version); reprinted in French as Les Vielles Solidaritiés Minées Par L’argent et L’individualisme, 460 Courrier International 28 (Sept. 1, 1999)
• Foreword: The Tribal Law and Governance Conference – A Step Towards the Development of Tribal Law Scholarship, 7 Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 1 (Winter 1998)
• Strengthening Tribal Sovereignty Through Government Reform: What Are the Issues?, 7 Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 72 (Winter 1998)
• Building a New Longhouse: The Case for Government Reform Within the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee, 46 Buffalo Law Review 805 (Fall 1998)
• A Proposal to the Hanodaganyas to Decolonize Federal Indian Control Law, 31 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 899 (Summer 1998)
• Strengthening Tribal Sovereignty Through Peacemaking: How the Anglo-American Legal Tradition Destroys Indigenous Societies, 28 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 235 (Winter 1997)
• Tribal Lawyers as Sovereignty Warriors, 6 Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 6 (Winter 1997)
• Strengthening Tribal Sovereignty Through Peacemaking: How the Anglo-American Legal Tradition Destroys Indigenous Societies, 5 Red Ink 54 (Spring 1997) (edited version)
• A Vision of Nation Building, 13 Native Americas 52 (Winter 1996)
• The Jurisdictional Relationship between the Iroquois and New York State: An Analysis of 25 U.S.C. §§ 232, 233, 27 Harvard Journal on Legislation 497 (Summer 1990)

Maureen Schwarz

Maureen Schwarz
Professor
PhD., University of Washington, 1995
Office 316C Maxwell Hall
Phone: 315-443-4995
Email: mtschwar@maxwell.syr.edu

Bio:
I am a cultural anthropologist who is interested in medical and religious forms of identity. My most current cluster of research and writing projects focus on how indigenous people accommodate biomedical technologies within the context of medical and religious pluralism. Most specifically, I am looking at how Native Americans use notions about the body to reinforce collective identity. This builds nicely upon my previous work since my area of specialization is Native North America and funding from a variety of sources has enabled me to conduct research on the Navajo reservation since 1991. My first book considered Navajo cultural constructions of personhood with special emphasis on manipulations of the body in ceremonial contexts. My second major fieldwork based project focused on the life courses of Navajo women who are ceremonial practitioners.

I consider myself to be an advocate for Native people and their rights; thus, my first and foremost goal as a scholar is to foreground native voices whenever possible and to present native views with respect. My position of advocacy skews my choice of topics for study or curriculum building towards issues of direct concern to Native Americans. Accordingly, my current project was selected in part because the Navajo people have a growing problem with diabetes. Due to diabetes caused complications the Navajo have the highest lower extremity amputation rates any where in the world. End Stage Renal Disease for which kidney transplantation is the optimal treatment therapy. These are, therefore, critical health causes for the Navajo Nation.

Courses Taught:
ANT 323 / NAT 323 Peoples and Cultures of Native North America
ANT 456/656 / NAT 456 Representations of Indigenous Peoples in Popular Culture
ANT 461/661 / NAT 461 Museums and Native Americans

Selected Publications & Projects:

• Choosing Life: Navajo Perspectives on Medical and Religious Pluralism. University of Oklahoma Press, In Press.
• Blood and Voice: The Life-Courses of Navajo Women Ceremonial Practicioners. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003.
• Navajo Lifeways: Contemporary Issues, Ancestral Knowledge. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001.
• Molded in the Image of Changing Women: Navajo Views on the Human Body and Personhood. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1997.
• “Native American Tattoos: Identity and Spirituality in Contemporary America.” Visual Anthropology 19 (2006):223-254.
• “Native American Barbie: The Marketing of Euro-American Desires.” American Studies 46:3/4 (2005):295-326.
• "Collective Guilt, Conservation, and Other Postmodern Messages in Contemporary Westerns." American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 26.1 (2002):83-105.
• "Allusions to Ancestral Impropriety: Understandings of Arthritis and Rheumatism in the Contemporary Navajo World." American Ethnologist. 28.3 (2001): 650-678.
• "The Eyes of Our Ancestors Have a Message: Studio Photographs at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, 1866." Visual Anthropology. 10.1 (1998):17-47.

* Affiliated Program Faculty in other Schools and Colleges