Contributors
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Patty Loew (Bad River Ojibwe) is an associate professor in the Department of Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of two books, Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal (2001) and Native People of Wisconsin (2003). Loew has produced more than a dozen award-winning video documentaries on Native American topics, including Way of the Warrior, which aired nationally on PBS (2007). Loew received her doctorate from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1998 and holds honorary degrees from Northland College in Ashland and Edgewood College in Madison.
James Thannum is the director of planning and development for the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission. Since joining the commission in 1986, he has worked with numerous socioeconomic expert witnesses in the Voigt litigation and Minnesota v. Mille Lacs Band case. He has also assisted tribal governments in building their natural resource management and protection capabilities, worked to develop sustainable resource-based microbusinesses, and established fish contaminant testing and advisory programs with research teams.
The most recent of Arnold Krupat's many books is All that Remains: Varieties of Indigenous Expression (2009). He is the editor for Native American literatures for the Norton Anthology of American Literature, and he teaches in the Global Studies Faculty Group of Sarah Lawrence College.
Rauna Kuokkanen is assistant professor of political science and aboriginal studies at the University of Toronto. [End Page 279]
Maria A. Kopacz is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at West Chester University. She studies intergroup communication (especially the dimensions of race and culture) and the role of media in that process. She is particularly interested in the potential of the new media to carry the voices of marginalized ethnic groups. She holds a doctorate in communication from the University of Arizona and a master of arts in applied linguistics from Warsaw University in Poland.
Bessie Lee Lawton is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at West Chester University. She studies intercultural communication, especially issues of identity negotiation and acculturation. She received her doctorate in communication from the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication and her master of arts in communication from the University of the Philippines. [End Page 280]
