Contributors
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Hokulani K. Aikau is an assistant professor of Indigenous and Native Hawaiian politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled "Negotiations of Faith: Mormonism, Identity, and Hawaiian Struggles for Self-Determination." She has also coauthored an edited collection of personal narratives from three generations of academic feminists entitled Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations: Life Histories from the Academy (University of Minnesota Press, 2007).
Yael Ben-zvi is a lecturer in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University. Her research focuses on representations of space, belonging, and native status in literary, anthropological, and geographic discourses.
D. Anthony Tyeeme Clark is an assistant professor of American Indian studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as well as coeditor of the Indigenous Futures Series at the University of Nebraska Press and associate editor for Wicazo Sa Review. His current book projects include Roots of Red Power: American Indian Protest and Resistance, from Wounded Knee to Chicago.
Lloyd L. Lee (Diné) is an assistant professor of Native American cultures at the West Campus of Arizona State University and a visiting professor in the Native American Studies Department at the University of New Mexico for 2007-8. His research focuses on Navajo identity, masculinity, nationalism, and governance. He is currently working on a manuscript that examines the history of Navajo manhood and how colonialism has changed Navajo men. He earned his doctorate from the University of New Mexico. [End Page 118]
Karen Ohnesorge is a poet, artist, and scholar studying race and gender at the crossroads of image and text. She is an assistant professor of English at Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas.
Malea Powell is a mixed-blood of Indiana Miami, Eastern Shawnee, and Euroamerican ancestry. She is an associate professor of writing, rhetoric, and American culture at Michigan State University, where she directs the Rhetoric & Writing Program and serves as a faculty member in the American Indian Studies Program. During 2005-6 she was part of a small team that developed and proposed MSU's new Residential College in the Arts & Humanities. Her research on examining the rhetorics of survivance used by nineteenth-century American Indian intellectuals has been published widely. Her current scholarly project focuses on American Indian material rhetorics and the degree to which such everyday arts tie tradition and innovation in the cultural practices of contemporary Native women. She is at work on a book manuscript, "Rhetorical Powwows," that ties her historical and material scholarship together. Powell will step down this fall from seven years as editor of SAIL: Studies in American Indian Literatures, a quarterly journal devoted to the study of American Indian writing for which she has twice won the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers "Writer of the Year" Award for scholarly editing. She is also the author of a textbook, Of Color: Native American Literatures (forthcoming in 2008 with Prentice-Hall), and served as consulting editor for American Indian literatures on Prentice-Hall's new two-volume Anthology of American Literatures project (also forthcoming in 2008). In her spare time she serves on the advisory board of the National Center for Great Lakes Native American Cultures, Inc., in Portland, Indiana.
Jeffrey P. Shepherd is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at El Paso. His research focuses on ways that Indigenous peoples of the Americas negotiate conquest and colonization. He is especially interested in Indigenous communities on the borders of the United States and Mexico and the United States and Canada. Presently, he is revising a manuscript on the Hualapai nation of Arizona for publication with the University of Nebraska Press. He teaches undergraduate and graduate classes on Indigenous, U.S., western, borderlands, and public history. [End Page 119]
