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269 Contributors Heidi Bohaker is an assistant professor of Aboriginal history in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. Bohaker’s research interests include Aboriginal writing systems and literacies, treaties and treaty-making practices, and the political significance of kinship networks. Her article “Nindoodemag: Algonquian Kinship Networks and Cross-Cultural Alliances in the Eastern Great Lakes Region, 1600–1700” was published in William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, 63, no. 1 (January 2006): 23–52. Heather Bouwman is an associate professor of English at the University of St.Thomas in St.Paul,Minnesota.She specializes in colonial and early American literature. Recently, she and nine graduate students published two Samson Occom sermons at the Early Americas Digital Archives (http://www.mith2 .umd.edu/eada/). In addition, Bouwman has published poetry and essays on teaching and academic life. Her first novel (set in North America in the late 1700s) is scheduled for publication in 2008. Joanna Brooks is an associate professor of English at San Diego State University and the author of American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of AfricanAmerican and Native American Literatures (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), which received the 2003 Modern Language Association William Sanders Scarborough Prize as an outstanding work in African-American literary criticism. Brooks is editor of The Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan : Leadership and Literature in Eighteenth-Century Native America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006). Kristina Bross is an associate professor of English and American studies at Purdue University. Her reviews and essays have been published in CommonPlace and Early American Literature, and she is the author of Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians in Colonial America (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2004). Stephanie Fitzgerald (Cree) is an assistant professor of English and Indigenous Nations Studies at the University of Kansas. Among her works on Native women’s writings is Keepers of the Morning Star: An Anthology of 270 · Contributors Native Women’s Theater (Los Angeles: UCLA American Indian Studies Center , 2003), co-edited with Jaye T. Darby. Sandra M. Gustafson is an associate professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2000). She has published numerous reviews and essays and currently serves as the book review editor for the journal Early American Literature. Laura Arnold Leibman is an associate professor of English and humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. She is the academic director of American Passages: A Literary Survey (Annenberg Foundation/Corporation for Public Broadcasting) and the lead advisor for Artifacts & Fiction (Annenberg Foundation ). She has published essays on colonial American and Native American literature and is the editor of a forthcoming cultural edition of Experience Mayhew’s Indian Converts (University of Massachusetts Press). Her current research project is on the Sephardic community in eighteenth-century Newport , Rhode Island. Kevin A. McBride is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Connecticut and the director of research for the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, where he oversees field study programs on the reservation for graduate students and directs all ongoing archaeological excavations and ethnohistorical research for the tribe. His research interests include the prehistory and ethnohistory of eastern North America, the historic archaeology of Euro-Americans, settlement systems, and paleoethnobotany. David Murray is a professor of American literature and culture in the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham in England .Among his writings on American poetry and culture are Forked Tongues: Speech, Writing, and Representation in North American Indian Texts (Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1991 ), Indian Giving: Economies of Power in Indian-White Exchanges (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000), and Matter, Magic and Spirit: Representing Indian and African American Belief. (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania University Press, 2007). His current projects include an anthology of essays on jazz as related to other African American arts. Laura J. Murray is an associate professor of English at Queen’s University. She is the editor of To Do Good to My Indian Brethren: The Writings of Joseph [54.198.45.0] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 09:21 GMT) Contributors · 271 Johnson, 1751–1776 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998) and, with Keren Rice, the co-editor of Talking on the Page: Editing Aboriginal Oral Texts (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999). In addition, she has written articles on...