Contributors
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N. N. Augusté is a professor of English at the Savannah College of Art and Design. She earned her PhD in English from the University of North Carolina–Greensboro in 2006, focusing on the rhetoric of the Cherokee Trail of Tears. Her current research explores Southeastern Indian women narratives, particularly Catawba Indian women, and the Catawba pottery-making tradition. Her other interests involve cultural and folk art traditions.
Charles Chamberlain is the historian of the Louisiana State Museum where he specializes in the history and culture of Louisiana.
Ian Chambers is assistant professor in the department of history and a faculty member of American Indian Studies, American Studies, and Women Studies programs at the University of Idaho. His research looks at the role that spatial understanding, both mental and physical, played during colonialism. Specifically he examines interaction between the Cherokee and British Nations in the American Southeast in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. He has a book based on his research under contract with SUNY Press. His work has also appeared as a chapter, "British Imaginings of the Eighteenth Century," in America in the British Imagination (2007, Cambridge Scholars Press) and "Spatial Personas: A New Technique for Interpreting Colonial Encounters in Colonial North America," History Compass, July 2008.
Joshua S. Haynes is a PhD candidate at the University of Georgia. He is researching his dissertation with a projected completion date of summer 2011. Mr. Haynes's dissertation is tentatively titled "Patterns of Violence in Savannah River Valley Communities, 1650s–1790s." [End Page 133]
Lawrence T. Locklear (Lumbee) earned a master of public administration from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and a bachelor of arts in history from North Carolina State University. Locklear is the university Web publisher at UNC Pembroke, where he is seeking a bachelor of arts in American Indian Studies. In 2007 Locklear appeared in The History Channel's Aftershock: Beyond the Civil War, in which he provided historical commentary about Lumbee hero Henry Berry Lowry, his multiracial gang, and their fight for social and political justice in Robeson County between 1864 and 1874. He also served on the Lumbee Tribal Council from 2005 to 2008, including one and a half years as speaker. Locklear plans to pursue a PhD in American Indian Studies, where he will focus on issues of Lumbee history, governance, and sovereignty.
Diana DiPaolo Loren (BFA, Tyler School of Art, Temple University; MA and PhD, SUNY Binghamton) has been an associate curator at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, since 1999. Loren is a North American archaeologist specializing in the colonial-period Southeast and Northeast. Her research interests include colonialism, identity, social theories of the body, and artifacts of clothing and adornment. She is the author of In Contact: Bodies and Spaces in the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Eastern Woodlands (2007) and coeditor with Timothy R. Pauketat of North American Archaeology (2004).
Julie Anne Sweet is associate professor of history at Baylor University and studies colonial Georgia and Creek history. Recent publications include "A Misguided Mistake: The Trustees' Public Garden in Savannah, Georgia," Georgia Historical Quarterly 93 (Spring 2009): 1–29; "Will the Real Tomochichi Please Come Forward?" American Indian Quarterly 32 (Spring 2008): 141–77; and Negotiating for Georgia: British-Creek Relations in the Trustee Era, 1733–1752 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005).
Cameron B. Wesson is associate professor and chair of anthropology at the University of Vermont. Originally from Childersburg, Alabama, he received his BS and BA from Auburn University, and his MA and PhD from the University of Illinois. His research interests include Native American social complexity, households, colonialism, and capitalism. He is author of Households and Hegemony (2008) and coeditor with Mark A. Rees of Between Contacts and Colonies (2002). [End Page 134]
