Contributors
- Contributors
David D. Barney is assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma in the School of Social Work (Norman) and College of Public Health (Oklahoma City). He is presently the principle investigator for an Indian Child Welfare training program for tribes in the Southwestern United States and also Centro de Evaluación, a joint project of the University of Oklahoma and the University of California, Berkeley, to evaluate HIV/AIDS care programs along the U.S./Mexico border. Barney’s research interests include American Indian and Alaska Native health, adolescent health, and HIV/AIDS care.
Roe Bubar is currently a research associate at Colorado State University and a partner in a Native-owned consulting business. She is an attorney and has worked extensively in Indian Country in a variety of capacities. Bubar has vast experience in child sexual abuse issues and has published works on child sexual abuse and HIV/AIDS in Indian Country and on violence against Native women.
John Casken is currently assistant professor of nursing at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. He received his doctorate from the University of Hawai‘i in political science. Casken has experience as a health care provider, educator, and researcher among American Indians, Alaska Natives, and native Hawaiians. His research interests focus on the effects of politics and political actions on health outcomes for indigenous peoples as health service clients and as health professionals.
Lorelei De Cora has a nursing degree (R.N., B.S.N.) and has worked for years for the Indian Health Service and for her tribe, the Winnebago in Nebraska. De Cora is the field project director of the Diabetes Circles project, and is employed by the SEVA Foundation. Her interests include the merging of culture and health in diabetes prevention and health promotion among American Indians.
Mary Kay Duffié received her doctorate in cultural anthropology from Washington State University in 1994. Her academic focus centers on American Indians and other indigenous populations whose research problems stem from lived experience in postcolonial contexts. Duffié is the author of books and articles detailing political, cultural, and public health issues as these relate to legacies of the European colonial pattern. She was the 1993 recipient of the Society for Medical Anthropology’s WHR Rivers Award.
Betty Geishirt Cantrell is assistant clinical professor at the University of California at San Francisco. She received her master of science in social work from the University of Wisconsin in 1981 and her master in business administration from Memphis State University in 1988. Cantrell is currently project director of the Diabetes Wellness: American Indian Talking Circles research project at the Center for American Indian Research and Education. Her interests include examining culturally appropriate interventions and programs for Native communities. [End Page 178]
Nell H. Gottlieb is professor and coordinator of the Health Promotion program at the University of Texas and professor of behavioral sciences at the University of Texas, School of Public Health. Her family is of Creek heritage from Alabama. Her work focuses on health promotion programs, cancer prevention and control, with emphasis on tobacco control.
Felicia Schanche Hodge is professor at the University of Minnesota, School of Nursing, and is the founder and director of the Center for American Indian Research and Education (CAIRE). A Wailaki Indian from Northern California, she is currently the principal investigator of several large research projects targeting American Indian cervical cancer, nutrition, smoking cessation, breast cancer, wellness concepts, and diabetes. She was the 1998 recipient of the Everyday Hero Award from the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, Washington, D.C.
Craig Howe, an enrolled memeber of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, is a fellow in American culture studies at Washington University, St. Louis. At the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, he conceived and developed the inaugural exhibitions. At the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History at the Newberry Library in Chicago, he initiated an innovative hypermedia tribal histories project. He has taught architecture and Native American studies courses in both the United States and Canada.
Lee Ann Kaskutas is a scientist at the Alcohol Research Group. She has a doctorate in public health from the University of California, Berkeley. Kaskutas is interested...
