Indigenous Bodies: Reviewing, Relocating, Reclaiming

Contributors

Contributors Ewelina Bańka is an Assistant Professor at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. Her PhD dissertation was on the representations of Indian Country in the works of Gerald Vizenor, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Sherman Alexie. Her research and teaching interests include postcolonial theory, indigenous literatures of the Americas, and border fictions. She was the recipient of the Kosciuszko Foundation grant for her project “View from the Concrete Shore: Identity and Urban Space in Contemporary Native American Literature.” Max Carocci is an anthropologist who lectures in Indigenous Arts of the Americas in the program World Arts and Artifacts, which he directs for Birkbeck College London, in joint collaboration with the British Museum. His book Warriors of the Plains: The Arts of Native North American Warfare (British Museum Press/McGill Queens University Press, 2012) complements a travelling exhibition on Plains Indian art that he curated for the British Museum. Among his recent publications are Ritual and Honour (British Museum press, 2011) and Native American Adoption, Captivity, and Slavery in Changing Contexts co-edited with Stephanie Pratt (Palgrave, 2011). Recently he curated Imagi/Nations, an exhibition about nineteenth-century Native American photography from the archives of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, exhibited in their headquarters in London, May–August 2012. Jacqueline Fear-Segal is Reader in American History and Culture at the University of East Anglia, England, and has also taught at Harvard University, University College London, the Sorbonne, and Dickinson College, PA. She is co-founder and administrator [with Rebecca Tillett] of the Native Studies Research Network UK, which is based in the School of American Studies at the University of East Anglia. The author of numerous publications on Native Studies topics, her book, White Man’s Club: Schools, Race, and the Struggle of Indian Acculturation (University of Nebraska Press, 2007), won the European American Studies Network prize in 2008. She is currently completing 191 192 Contributors a study of photographs of students attending the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Shadow Catchers at the Indian School: Photographic encounters and reclamations, 1879 to the present. Hsinya Huang is Professor of American and Comparative Literature and Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan. In addition to numerous articles, her book publications include (De) Colonizing the Body: Disease, Empire, and (Alter)Native Medicine in Contemporary Native American Women’s Writings (2004), Lesbigay Literature in Modern English Tradition (2008) and Huikan beimei yuanzhumin wenxue: Duoyuan wenhua de shengsi [Native North American Literatures: Reflections on Multiculturalism] (co-edited, 2009), the first Chinese essay collection on Native North American literatures. She is Editor-in-chief of Review of English and American Literature and Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities, and also is editing the English translation of The History of Taiwanese Indigenous Literatures and essay volumes, Aspects of Transnational and Indigenous Cultures and Ocean and Ecology in the Trans-Pacific Context. Her current research project focuses on Trans-Pacific Indigenous literatures. Carolyn Kastner is the Curator of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned her PhD in American Art History at Stanford University in 1999. Her research, publications, and curatorial projects are focused on the diversity of American modernism. Her most recent research will be published as the monograph Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: An American Modernist (2013). Marion Maar is a medical anthropologist and Associate Professor at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) in Canada. Her teaching and research focus is in the area of chronic illness prevention in Aboriginal communities, culturally competent health care, and child health applications. Specializing in culture and health, she was closely involved in the development of NOSM’s new northern and rural focused medical curriculum. She is a faculty coordinator for a unique one month, mandatory cultural emersion experience for NOSM medical students in Aboriginal communities. She has lead and collaborated on many research projects, including Aboriginal research ethics, diabetes care and prevention, mental health, and health services research. Darrel Manitowabi (Anishinaabe) is an Assistant Professor in the School of Native Human Services at Laurentian University, and holds a cross-appointment with the Northern Ontario School of Medicine in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. He recently completed research on the impact of socioeconomic 193 Contributors interventions on Aboriginal well-being and has published articles on Indigenous issues such as casinos, Anishinaabe...