Contributors
- Contributors
Thomas Grayson Colonnese is Santee Sioux. He is director of the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he also serves as assistant vice president for minority affairs.
Rodney Frey is professor of American Indian studies and anthropology and acting coordinator of the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Idaho. His key publications include The World of the Crow Indians: As Driftwood Lodges; Stories That Make the World: Oral Literature of the Indian Peoples of the Inland Northwest as Told by Lawrence Aripa, Tom Yellowtail, and Other Elders; and Landscape Traveled by Crane and Coyote: The World of the Schitsu’umsh (Coeur d’Alene Indians).
Daniel Hart is professor of American Indian studies at the University of Washington. He has an M.F.A. in film and television and training in the anthropology of visual communications. Hart is an award-winning documentary producer and director, whose work with Native Voices: The Center for Indigenous Media has gained international recognition.
Darrell Robes Kipp lives on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana by a lake. He founded Piegan Institute and the Real Speak Schools. A graduate of Harvard University and Goddard College’s M.F.A. program, Kipp designs programs to revitalize his tribal language.
Steve Leuthold is an assistant professor in the Department of Art and Design at Northern Michigan University where he teaches courses on Native American art and architecture. He is the author of Indigenous Aesthetics: Native Art, Media, and Identity.
Ron McFarland teaches seventeenth-century and modern poetry, Hemingway seminars, and contemporary Northwest writers at the University of Idaho. His most recent critical books are The World of David Wagoner and Understanding James Welch. McFarland has also published his new and selected poems in Stranger in Town.
John Mihelich is a faculty member at the University of Idaho where he teaches classes in anthropology, sociology, and American studies. He earned his Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Washington State University in 1999. Mihelich has conducted extensive ethnographic research on labor, capitalism, and religion in the mining community of Butte, Montana. In addition to continuing this research, his current work focuses on American popular culture and media representations of American life.
Sam Pack is a doctoral candidate in anthropology of visual communication at Temple University. His prior publications have addressed such topics as television, feature film, ethnographic film, indigenous media, and photography from an anthropological perspective. This is Pack’s second contribution to Wicazo Sa Review.
T. V. Reed is professor of English and director of American studies at Washington State University. He is the [End Page 180] author of Fifteen Jugglers, Five Believers: Literary Politics and the Poetics of American Social Movements, and articles on theory and method in cultural studies, the fiction of E. L. Doctorow, and James Agee. Reed is at work on a book about the role of various art forms (poetry, drama, music, film murals, etc.) in American social movements from the Civil Rights era to the present, which will be published by the University of Minnesota Press. He is also finishing a book on 1930s radical novelist Robert Cantwell and editing an anthology of critical essays on Agee and Evans’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.
Luana Ross (Salish) has a Ph.D. in sociology and is associate professor of women studies at the University of Washington. She has been a coproducer of several documentary films and continues to work with Native Voices. Ross is the author of Inventing the Savage: The Social Construction of Native American Criminality.
Beverly R. Singer (Tewa/Diné) is director of the Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies at the University of New Mexico. She has been making videos since 1987, and is the author of Wiping the War Paint off the Lens: Native American Film and Video (Minnesota, 2001). Singer has a Ph.D. in American studies from the University of New Mexico.
Sean Teuton is a doctoral candidate in English at Cornell University, where he is currently completing his dissertation, “Homelands: Politics, Identity, and Place in the American Indian Novel.” He is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, and a teacher in the Native...
