Their Own Frontier: Women Intellectuals Re-Visioning the American West

Contributors

maria eugenia cotera holds a holds a joint appointment as Assistant Professor in the Program in American Culture/Latino Studies and the Women’s Studies Program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has published numerous essays on Jovita González and Sioux ethnographer Ella Deloria, including “‘All My Relatives Are Noble’: Recovering the Feminine in Waterlily,” in American Indian Quarterly (Fall 2004), and “Jovita González and the Legacy of Borderlands Feminism,” in Latina Legacies, ed. Vicki Ruíz (Oxford University Press, 2004). Forthcoming is her edition of Jovita González’s master’s thesis, Social Life in Cameron, Starr, and Zapata Counties (Texas A&M Press). Currently she is working on a book on Ella Cara Deloria, Jovita González, and Zora Neale Hurston and “the Poetics of Culture.” catherine s. fowler is Foundation Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is an ethnologist and ethnohistorian specializing in the histories and cultures of Great Basin Native Americans (Southern Paiutes, Northern Paiutes, Western Shoshones), with additional interests in ethnobiology, material culture, museums, and the preservation of the anthropological record. suzanne julin earned her doctorate in U.S. and public history from Washington State University. She lives in Missoula, Montana, where she works as an independent public historian on cultural resource and oral history projects in a multi-state area. Her most recent contracts are an assessment of the historic significance of eleven Veterans Administration properties across the country and a series of oral interviews with city officials and residents in Deadwood, South Dakota. Julin was introduced to Annie Heloise Abel’s work as an undergraduate history student at the University of South Dakota when her advisor handed her Tabeau’s Narrative and said, “Read the footnotes!” robert van kemper is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Contributors 394 contributors Texas. A cultural anthropologist, he specializes in Mexico, especially long-term community transformation and migration in Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán. His additional scholarly interests include the history of anthropology, tourism, urbanization, bilingual education, applied anthropology , and faith-based community development in Mexico and the United States. catherine f. lavender is Associate Professor of History and Director of the American Studies Program at Staten Island College of the City University of New York. She has most recently published Scientists and Storytellers: Feminists and Anthropologists and the Construction of the American Southwest of the Southwest (University of New Mexico Press, 2006). She has also coedited, with Lillian Schlissel, The Western Women’s Reader (HarperCollins, 2000). Currently she is writing a work about the murder of Henrietta Schmerler, an anthropology student, in Arizona in 1931. shirley a. leckie is Professor Emerita from the University of Central Florida. She is the author of Angie Debo: Pioneering Historian (2000) and Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth (1993). With William H. Leckie, she collaborated on works that combined western military history with social and family history. Throughout her research and writing she has been most interested in women’s responses to the American West, their role in helping to construct a narrative justifying conquest, and the role of other women in challenging that narrative and their intellectual contribution to the re-visioning of the West. patricia loughlin is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Central Oklahoma, where she teaches women’s history, history of the American West, twentieth-century U.S. history, and public history . Her first book, Hidden Treasures of the American West (University of New Mexico Press, 2005), examines the lives and texts of three women writers—historian Angie Debo, public historian Muriel Wright, and Alice Marriott—who created careers for themselves on the cusp of the academic world and sought a more popular audience for their writings. Currently, Loughlin is completing a book-length manuscript on the history of the University of Central Oklahoma for Oklahoma’s centen- contributors 395 nial in 2007. She is also working on a collaborative project with artist Marvin Martinez, the great-grandson of Maria Martinez. nancy j. parezo is Professor of American Indian Studies and Anthropology at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Daughters of the Desert and editor of Hidden Scholars: Women Anthropologists and the Native American Southwest. Long interested in the history of anthropology and anthropologists’ relations with American Indians, she recently finished Anthropology Goes to the Fair: The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition...