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| 219 Contributors Joseph Bauerkemper is Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota–Duluth,whereheteachescoursesinpolitics,literature,andlaw.Hehaspublishedin Studies in American Indian Literatures, American Studies, and the edited collection Visualities: Perspectives on Contemporary American Indian Film and Art (2011). After earning his PhD in American Studies from the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, Joseph enjoyed one year at the University of Illinois as a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in American Indian Studies, followed by two years at UCLA as an Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor in the DepartmentofEnglishandintheprogramforthestudyofCulturesinTransnationalPerspective. Jeff Berglund is Professor of English at Northern Arizona University, where he frequently teachesindigenous-filmcourses.HeistheauthorofarticlesonBlackfire,ShermanAlexie,Simon Ortiz, Esther Belin, and the pedagogy of American Indian literature. He is also the coeditor of Sherman Alexie: A Collection of Critical Essays (2010), as well as the author of Cannibal Fictions: American Explorations of Colonialism, Race, Gender, and Sexuality (2006). Jodi A. Byrd (Chickasaw) is Associate Professor of American Indian Studies and English at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Her articles have appeared in Interventions, Cultural Studies Review, and American Indian Quarterly, and her book, The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism, was published in 2011. Allison Adelle Hedge Coke’s authored books include (American Book Award winner) Dog Road Woman (1997) and Off-Season City Pipe (2005), poetry; Rock Ghost, Willow, Deer (2004), a memoir; and Blood Run (2007), a verse-play. Hedge Coke has edited eight additional collections, including Sing: Poetry of the Indigenous Americas (2007), Effigies and Effigies II. Hedge Coke comes from Huron Metis, Cherokee, Creek, French Canadian, Portuguese, Irish, and Scots heritage. She came of age cropping tobacco and working fields and waters, and working in factories. Denise K. Cummings is Associate Professor and Chair of Critical Media and Cultural Studies at Rollins College. Her teaching and research focus on film history, theory, and criticism; AmericanandAmericanIndianfilmandliterature;andmediaandculturalstudies.Sheiseditor of Visualities: Perspectives on Contemporary American Indian Film and Art (2011), has curated Contributors 220| Contributors numerous film programs, and serves on selection committees and juries for several film festivals, including the Florida Film Festival (Maitland). Philip Deloria is Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor of History and American Culture, and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Playing Indian (1998) and Indians in Unexpected Places (2004), and coeditor (with Neal Salisbury) of The Blackwell Companion to American Indian History (2002). Deloria is former president of the American Studies Association, a trustee of the National Museum of the American Indian, and the author of numerous essays, articles, and reviews. Jill Doerfler (White Earth Anishinaabe) is Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota–Duluth. She is interested in the diverse ways in which Anishinaabeghaveresistedpseudoscientificmeasuresofblood(race/bloodquantum)asameans to define identity. She is the co-author of The White Earth Nation: Ratification of a Native Democratic Constitution, with Gerald Vizenor (2012), and coedited Centering Anishinaabeg Studies: Understanding the World through Stories, with Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark (2013). Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert is enrolled with the Hopi Tribe from the village of Upper Moencopi in northeastern Arizona. He is Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies & History at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Centering his research and teaching on Native American history and the history of the American West, he examines the history of American Indian education, the Indian boarding school experience, and American Indians and sports. He is the author of Education beyond the Mesas: Hopi Students at Sherman Institute, 1902–1929 (2010), and his articles have appeared in Western Historical Quarterly, American Quarterly, Journal of American Indian Education, and in edited volumes. Along with his scholarship on the history of American Indian education, he is writing a second monograph entitled hopi runners: Crossing the Terrain Between Indian and American, 1908–1932. He received his PhD and MA in history from the University of California, Riverside, and holds an MA in theology from Talbot School of Theology/Biola University. P. Jane Hafen (Taos Pueblo) is a Frances C. Allen Fellow, D’Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian, The Newberry Library. She is editor of Dreams and Thunder: Stories, Poems and The Sun Dance Opera by Zitkala-Ša (2005); coeditor, with Diane Quantic, of A Great Plains Reader (2003); and author of Reading Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine (2003). She is one of the Clan Mothers of the Native American Literature...

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