Contributors
- Contributors
Jennifer Bess is assistant professor of peace studies at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. Her research interests include contemporary fiction by ethnic American women and Native American studies. She has published notes and essays in the Explicator, Anglistica, College Literature, and Wicazo Sa Review.
Matt Cohen is associate professor in the Department of English and a member of the Indigenous Studies Initiative at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Networked Wilderness: Communicating in Early New England (Minnesota, 2010).
Ellen Cushman is a Cherokee Nation citizen, State of Sequoyah Commissioner, literacy scholar, and associate professor of writing, rhetoric, and American cultures at Michigan State University. Her research stemming from five years of ethnohistorical research with the Cherokee Nation, The Cherokee Syllabary: Writing the People's Perseverance, is forthcoming (2011) and has been published in Ethnohistory. Her award-winning research in community literacies has been published in Reflections on Community-Based Writing Instruction, Community Literacy Journal, College Composition and Communication, and The Public Work of Rhetoric, edited by John Ackerman and David Coogan, as well as in Activism and Rhetoric, edited by Seth Kahn and JongHwa Lee.
LaRose Davis received her PhD from Emory University, where she studied African American and Native American literatures and cultures. Her research centers around the convergences of these communities and the ways that places facilitate those intersections. Currently, she is working on a book project, tentatively titled (Un)Common Grounds.
Amy E. Den Ouden is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the author of Beyond Conquest: Native Peoples and the Struggle for History in New England and serves on the advisory board for the book series First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies.
Lauren Grewe is a graduate student in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on American Indian literature and twentieth-century American poetry. She recently returned from a Fulbright Fellowship in Bangladesh.
Tom Holm is a Cherokee and professor emeritus in the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Arizona. His research and publishing focuses on American Indian Vietnam War veterans. He is now working on the concept of peoplehood as a model for American Indian studies. [End Page 114]
Michelle M. Jacob (Yakama) is associate professor of ethnic studies at the University of San Diego, where she teaches courses in American Indian studies and ethnic identity. Her work has been published in several journals and anthologies. She engages in scholarly and activist work that seeks to understand and work toward a holistic sense of health and well-being within indigenous communities. She is currently working on a book project that analyzes models of grassroots indigenous activism to articulate a theory of indigenous social change.
Denise K. Lajimodiere was born in Belcourt, North Dakota, on the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Reservation located in north central North Dakota. Through family "relocation," she was raised in Portland, Oregon, returning to the Turtle Mountains in the early 1970s. She has worked in education for thirty-three years as an elementary and middle school teacher and elementary principal in Belcourt, and now as an assistant professor in the School of Education at North Dakota State University in Fargo. She is also a longtime Native jingle dress dancer and a practitioner of an old Chippewa tribal art form called birch bark biting.
Wynona M. Peters (Tohono O'odham) studied ethnic studies and sociology at the University of San Diego. She was the cochair of the Native American Stu dent Organization (NASO), a McNair Scholar, and a mentor for the American Indian Recruitment Program. During her time at the university, she assisted in bringing awareness of American Indians to campus. She is currently working on the issue of substance abuse among reservation youth in her community and looking toward solutions to overcome this epidemic.
James Riding In (Pawnee) is the editor of Wicazo Sa Review, associate professor of American Indian studies at Arizona State University, and chair of the board of trustees of Pawnee Nation College. His publications appear in various books and journals.
Andrea Smith is associate professor of media and cultural studies at the University...
