Contributors
- Contributors
Donald Bahr is a long-time student of Pima culture and is professor of anthropology at Arizona State University.
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, founding editor of Wicazo Sa Review, is a long-time professor of Native American studies and professor emerita at Eastern Washington State University. She is a member of the Crow Creek Sioux tribe. Her latest book is Aurelia: A Crow Creek Trilogy.
Dorothy Graber teaches courses in comparative ethnic studies and Native American studies in the Comparative American Cultures Department at Washington State University. As a doctoral student in American studies there, she has done archaeological fieldwork and intercultural research in southeastern Oregon. Her current academic research focuses on how U.S. society uses the study, collection, and interpretation of Indian artifacts, including human remains and grave goods, in its ongoing capitalist, colonialist project against indigenous peoples.
Gregg Graber has a master’s degree in cultural anthropology from Washington State University. His research interests center on the adaptations to outside economic forces developed by the rural cultures of southeastern Oregon.
Daniel Hart is director of Native Voices Public TV and professor of American Indian studies at the University of Washington.
Azfar Hussain is from Bangladesh, where he teaches English and American literature at Jahangirnagar University. Currently he is a Ph.D. student in English at Washington State University. He came to the United States in 1995. After spending time at Harvard and Boston Universities as a Fulbright scholar, he came to Washington State University and earned his M.A. in English in 1997 under the Fulbright fellowship program. He has taught courses in writing, Greek and Roman classics, literature, and cultural politics and has published articles on critical theory, Marxist politics, and Third World literatures. He has recently collaboratively edited a reader called Reading about the World. Currently he is contractually working on a book tentatively titled Re-Scripting Caliban: Whither Postcolonial Theory? and a reader titled Political Ecology: An Introductory Reader. He also edits an activist bimonthly called dis/content: a journal of theory and practice.
Elaine A. Jahner is professor of English and Native American studies at Dartmouth College. She has taught Native American studies since the early 1970s, in North Dakota and at the University of Nebraska before moving to Dartmouth. Along with Raymond DeMaillie, she edited the multivolume series of James R. Walker papers on turn-of-the-century Lakota life. She has published many articles on different aspects of Native American literature, and she is currently finishing two books on Lakota/Dakota narrative traditions.
Sidner Larson is director of American Indian Studies at Iowa State University, where he also teaches American Indian literatures. He is a member of the Gros Ventre tribe of Fort Belknap, Montana, [End Page 162] and a descendant of the Otter Robes. He is committed to fundamental change in the American university system and to long-overdue enfranchisement of tribal colleges.
Richard Meyers (Oglala Lakota) graduated with a B.A. in anthropology from Amherst College in 1997, and returned to teach in the town of his tiospaye in Wanblee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Reservation. He is currently a doctoral student in the Socio-Cultural Anthropology Department at Arizona State University (ASU) and works as a graduate assistant for the Center for Indian Education. He plans on returning to Pine Ridge upon completion of his program.
Bridget O’Meara is a Ph.D. student in the Program in American Studies at Washington State University. She is a founding member of the editorial collective of dis/content: a journal of theory and practice. Her interests include political ecology, ecofeminism, and eco-postcolonial theory and literature. She has taught courses in composition, American culture, and women writers in the American West.
Kathryn Shanley, an enrolled member of the Fort Peck Assiniboine Tribe of Montana, currently serves as chair of Native American studies at the University of Montana. Dr. Shanley publishes widely in the field of Native American literature.
Laura Tohe is Diné (Navajo) and associate professor in the English department at Arizona State University, Tempe. Her book of poetry, No Parole Today, was published in 1999. She is the recipient of “Those Who Speak the World into Place: An...
