Contributors
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Valerie H. Hunt (PhD, University of Arkansas, 2004) is a research assistant professor in the graduate school and serves as the associate director of the Public Policy PhD Program at the University of Arkansas. Her research focuses on issues of discrimination, intersectionality and policy analysis, institutional transformation, and community development and empowerment. Her work has appeared in several journals, including Race, Class, & Gender, the Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, and the Arkansas Law Review. Her book, Capturing the Breadth and Depth of Human Experiences: Incorporating Intersectionality in Social Work Practice, Research, Policy, and Education, coauthored with Professors Yvette Murphy and Anna Zajicek and doctoral candidates Adele Norris and Leah Hamilton, was published by the National Association of Social Work Press in 2009.
Brinck Kerr (PhD, Texas A&M University, 1993) is professor of political science and serves as director of the Public Policy PhD Program at the University of Arkansas. His research focuses on representation, legislative behavior, employment policy, and education policy. His work has appeared in many political science and public administration journals, including the American Journal of Political Science, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, Urban Affairs Review, Congress & the Presidency, Women & Politics, Public Administration Review, American Review of Public Administration, Administration & Society, and Public Administration Quarterly. His book, Glass Walls and Glass Ceilings: Women's Representation in State and Municipal Bureaucracies, coauthored with Professors Margaret Reid and Will Miller, was published by Praeger Press in 2003.
Linda K. Ketcher (PhD, University of Arkansas, 2008) is supervisory social worker, Indian Child Welfare Policy, Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, DC. Dr. Ketcher is a full-blood Cherokee and a member [End Page 552] of the Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma. Her primary research focus is on American Indian Alaska Native child abuse and neglect.
Jennifer Murphy (BA, University of Arkansas, 1998) examined American Indian employment patterns in state and local governments as part of her undergraduate coursework. Her research provided a foundation for The Forgotten Minority: An Analysis of American Indian Employment Patterns in State and Local Governments, 1991-2005. Jennifer is currently employed in the consumer packaged goods industry by Energizer Holdings, Inc. She is actively involved in her community and strives to influence public policy through grassroots political activities.
Meghan C. L. Howey is an assistant professor of anthropology and archaeology at the University of New Hampshire.
Kent Blansett (Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Shawnee, and Potawatomi descendant) is a visiting assistant professor in history and American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota, Morris, and a PhD candidate in history at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. He is a former Andrew W. Mellon Doctoral Dissertation and Newberry Fellow. Blansett's dissertation is a biography of Mohawk student leader and activist Richard Oakes, who was one of the leaders of the 1969 Alcatraz takeover. His dissertation pulls together two new theoretical models for Native historical scholarship, the advent of what he terms an "Indian city" and "intertribalism." Blansett's article "Intertribalism in the Ozarks" breaks new ground in understanding this unique theoretical mode of intertribal history, which posits that Native American history and experience have always been transnational. More importantly, he argues that ethnic American assimilation and acculturation were also exchanges—a complicated two-way street in the Ozarks, a place and region where the Scotch-Irish became Tribalized by their experience. Blansett himself was born and raised in the four-corners region of the Ozark hills. His indigenous family line consists of Blankets, Panthers, and Smiths, and he draws upon his own familiar intertribal experience to issue a new challenge and call for intertribal scholarship.
Tena L. Helton is an assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois at Springfield, located near the Illinois lands of the Sauk and Fox.
Becca Gercken is an associate professor of English and American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota Morris and chair of UMM's American Indian Studies Program. [End Page 553]
