Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies

Education:
BA, Anthropology, Yale University, 1994;
PhD, American Studies, University of Minnesota, 2004

Research Interests:
Native Americans of the Southeastern US;
black-Indian-white relations; race and indigeneity in ethnic studies and Native American studies; ethnohistory; federal recognition of Indian tribes; indigenous educational histories; American Indians and the cinema; American Indians in popular culture; Native Americans and gender.

Selected Publications:
"Dangerous Decolonizing: Indians and Blacks and the Legacy of Jim Crow," in Narrating Native Histories in the Americas, edited by Florencia Mallon (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, forthcoming).

"I guess your warrior look doesnt work every time: Challenging Indian Masculinity in the Cinema," in Across the Great Divide: Cultures of Manhood in the US West, edited by Matt Basso, et al. (NY: Routledge, 2001), 251-273.

Works in Progress:
"Recognition Odysseys: Race, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Federal Recognition of American Indian Tribes." Book manuscript in preparation.

Indian Subjects: New Directions in the History of Indigenous Education, Co-edited with Brenda Child. In preparation.

"Indian Education Under Jim Crow: Understanding Race in Louisiana and the BIA," to be published in Indian Subjects: New Directions in the History of Indigenous Education, edited by Brenda Child and Brian Klopotek. In preparation.

Recent Courses:
ES 256 Introduction to Native American Studies (Winter 2007; Winter 2006)
ES 399 Native American/African American Relations (Winter 2007)
ANTH 407/507 Ethnohistory (Fall 2006; Spring 2005)
ES 456/556 History of Native American Education (Fall 2006; Winter 2005; Fall 2003)
ES 399 Native Americans and Film (Summer 2006)
ES 499 Ethnic Studies Proseminar (Spring 2006)
ES 399 Native Americans and the Environment (Winter 2006; Fall 2003)
ES 102 Introduction to Ethnic Studies (Winter 2005; Winter 2004)