Contributors
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C. Richard King is professor of comparative ethnic studies and former chair of the Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies at Washington State University. He has written extensively on the creation and contestation of Native American mascots as well as the changing contours of race in post–civil rights America, the colonial legacies and postcolonial predicaments of American culture, and struggles over Indianness in public culture more generally. His work has appeared in a variety of journals, such as American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, Public Historian, Cultural Studies/ Critical Methodologies, Journal of African American Studies, and Qualitative Inquiry. He is also the author or editor of several books, including Team Spirits: The Native American Mascot Controversy (a choice 2001 Outstanding Academic Title), Postcolonial America, and Native American Athletes in Sport and Society. He has recently completed The Native American Mascot Controversy: A Handbook and Unsettling America: The Uses of Indianness in the 21st Century.
Linda Scarangella McNenly earned her PhD in anthropology from McMaster University in 2008 and recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship through the Institute of Comparative Studies of Literature, Art, and Culture at Carleton University. Her research focuses on Native/non-Native relationships and questions of indigeneity and agency in tourism and other spaces of performance. Her chapter in Indigenous Cosmopolitans (2010) investigates how Native performers negotiate indigenous identity at contemporary Wild West show re-creations in the context of globalization and transnationalism. Her book Native Performers in Wild West Shows: From Buffalo Bill to Euro Disney (2012), published by the [End Page 283] University of Oklahoma Press, is a series of comparative case studies that explore Native North American experiences in both historic and contemporary Wild West shows and exhibitions.
Michelene E. Pesantubbee is associate professor of religious studies and American Indian and Native studies at the University of Iowa. She is the author of Choctaw Women in a Chaotic World: The Clash of Cultures in the Colonial Southeast (University of New Mexico Press, 2005). She has published several essays on Native American religious movements, including “Native American Geopolitical, Georestorative Movements,” in The Oxford Handbook of Millennialism, edited by Catherine Wessinger (Oxford University Press, 2011).
Paul McKenzie-Jones, PhD, is visiting lecturer in American Indian studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His first book manuscript, with the working title “Clyde Warrior’s Red Power: A Fresh Air of New Indian Idealism,” is scheduled for publication in the University of Oklahoma Press’s New Directions in Native American Studies series in the spring of 2015.
Sarah Wyman, an associate professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, teaches and writes on twentieth-century literature and the visual arts. Recent publications treat the poetry and painting of Frank O’Hara and Paul Klee (Word & Image, 2010), problems of representation in Robert Olen Butler’s stories (Amerikastudien /American Studies, 2012), indeterminacy and iconoclasm in the work of Robert Hayden, Janet Kozachek, and Tom Feelings (The Comparatist, 2012), Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” (ANQ 2012), and Percival Everett’s re: (f) gesture poems (University Press of Mississippi, 2013). [End Page 284]
