Contributor Biographies
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Adrienne Akins is an assistant professor of English at Mars Hill College in Mars Hill, North Carolina. Her articles have appeared in journals including Crítica Hispánica, Journal of the Short Story in English, Notes on Contemporary Literature, Southern Literary Journal, and others.
Scott Andrews is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. He teaches American and American Indian literatures at California State University, Northridge. He has published reviews, essays, poetry, and fiction in a variety of journals.
Clint Carroll is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and received a PhD in environmental science, policy and management from the University of California, Berkeley, in May 2011. He is currently a postdoctoral associate in the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota, where he is working on a book manuscript on Cherokee Nation environmental governance in the context of contemporary Cherokee cultural revitalization efforts.
Jarrett Chapin is a doctoral student in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Jill Doerfler (White Earth Anishinaabe) is an assistant professor of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Her research draws upon both historical documents and literature to delineate Anishinaabe conceptions of identity in the twentieth century. She is especially interested in the ways in which Anishinaabeg resisted pseudoscientific measures of blood (race/blood quantum) as a means to define identity. She [End Page 92] has published "An Anishinaabe Tribalography: Investigating and Interweaving Conceptions of Identity during the 1910s on the White Earth Reservation" in American Indian Quarterly (2009). She coauthored The White Earth Nation: Ratification of a Native Democratic Constitution with Gerald Vizenor, which is forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press.
William A. Dodge is a cultural historian living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He received his BA and MA degrees from the University of Arizona and University of Chicago, respectively, and his PhD in American studies from the University of New Mexico. He has over thirty-five years experience in historical, archaeological, and anthropological research with emphasis on the American Southwest. He is author of Black Rock: A Zuni Cultural Landscape and the Meaning of Place (2007).
Aubrey Jean Hanson is a Métis scholar and educator living in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where she currently teaches in public high schools and at Mount Royal University. She has a master's degree in sociology and equity studies in education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, a bachelor of education, also from OISE/UT, and a bachelor of arts (honors) in English from the University of Victoria. Her research interests include Aboriginal studies, Aboriginal literatures, social justice education, and gender studies.
James Jenkins is a Ford Foundation fellow and doctoral student in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin. His dissertation research deals with Anishinaabe responses to industrialization and national borders in the Great Lakes region during the twentieth century. He has also written about international indigenous activism, including North American Indian involvement in the 1980s Nicaraguan Revolution and counterrevolution. He is a band member of Walpole Island First Nation, where he is currently employed as a research archivist.
Margaret Noori / Giiwedinoodin (Anishinaabe Heritage, Waabz-Heshiinh Doodem) received an MFA in creative writing and a PhD in English and linguistics from the University of Minnesota. She is director of the Comprehensive Studies Program and teaches American Indian literature at the University of Michigan. Her work focuses on the recovery and maintenance of Anishinaabe language and literature. Current research includes language proficiency and assessment and the study of indigenous [End Page 93] literary aesthetics. To see and hear current projects visit www.ojibwe.net, where she and her colleague, Howard Kimewon, have created a space for language shared by academics and the Native community.
Jeffrey P. Shepherd is an associate professor and director of the doctoral program in the Department of History at the University of Texas at El Paso. He received his PhD from Arizona State University in 2002 and is interested in the histories of Indigenous people, especially in the American Southwest and northern Mexico. His book, We Are an Indian Nation: A History of the Hualapai People (2010) focuses...
