Contributors
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Desley Deacon is a professor of gender history at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, and former director of women's studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Elsie Clews Parsons: Inventing Modern Life and is working on a biography of the novelist Mary McCarthy that investigates the trauma of being modern.
Sandra Salo Deutchman retired from Washington State University in 1998 following thirty years of teaching fine arts and art education. A retrospective exhibit of her work was held at the University of Idaho Prichard Gallery in Moscow, Idaho, which included pieces painted while on sabbatical in Denmark and Australia. Deutchman is now at work on pieces inspired by a visit to Hawaii, and she is planning for a painting workshop in 2003 at La Liga de Arte in San Carlos, Mexico.
Katherine Ellinghaus teaches North American history in the history department of the University of Melbourne, Australia. She recently earned her Ph.D., writing a thesis that examines interracial marriages between white women and indigenous men in Australia and America between 1880 and 1940.
Greta Gaard is the author of Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and the Greens, editor of Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, Nature, and coeditor of Ecofeminist Literary Criticism. Gaard was formerly an associate professor at the University of Minnesota-Duluth and later at Western Washington University's Fairhaven College. She is currently completing a volume of ecofeminist creative nonfiction essays titled Home is Where You Are.
Catron Grieves is a Cherokee Indian from Tahlequah and a poet. Her poems and short fiction have appeared in Piecework: A Magazine of Poetry by Women, The Iowa Review, Reinventing the Enemy's Language, Real Things, Moonrising, A Terrible Foe This Bear, and Aniyunwiya/Real Human Beings, an anthology of contemporary Cherokee prose. She is currently researching and writing about [End Page 148] the identity formation and transformation of American Indians who are part black and African Americans who are descendents of American Indians.
Patricia Grimshawis the Max Crawford Professor of History at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where she teaches American and Australian history and contributes to the gender studies program. Her recent publications include the coauthored Creating a Nation, the coedited Women's Rights and Human Rights: International Historical Perspectives, and the forthcoming Equal Subjects, Unequal Rights: Indigenous Peoples in British Settler Colonies, 1830s to 1910.
Margaret D. Jacobs is an associate professor of history at New Mexico State University and the author of Engendered Encounters: Feminism and Pueblo Cultures, 1879–1934. Her current research project focuses on the role of white women in the removal of indigenous children from their Native homes in the United States and Australia from 1880 to 1940. She recently received two awards, a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award and an NEH Extending the Reach Faculty Research Award, to carry out research in Australia.
Ann McGrath is the director of the Society and Nation Program at the National Museum of Australia and previously taught gender relations and Australian history at the University of New South Wales. She is working on a comparative history of marriage frontiers in Australia and North America. McGrath has published a number of works on Aboriginal history, including a peice in Contested Ground: Australian Aborigines under the British Crown, a book she also edited. She coauthored a feminist history of Australia, Creating a Nation, with Patricia Grimshaw, Marilyn Lake, and Marian Quartley.
Alison Townsend's poetry and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in magazines such as Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, Nimrod, Rattle, Crazyhorse, Calyx, and Kalliope: A Journal of Women's Art. She has been frequently anthologized, most recently in Fruitflesh, Women Runners: Stories of Transformation, Boomer Girls, and Claiming the Spirit Within. A collection of poetry, The Blue Dress: Poems and Prose Poems, is forthcoming in 2003. She is an assistant professor of English, creative writing, and women's studies at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater. She lives in the farm country outside Madison, Wisconsin, with her husband.
Sylvia Van Kirk is a professor of Canadian History at the University of Toronto, specializing in women's history and Aboriginal /non-Aboriginal relations. She is best known for her pioneering...
