University of Chicago: Department of Anthropology: About the Department

University of Chicago Anthropologists who work in Native North America

Faculty
Students:
     Preparing for the field
     In the field
     Writing up
     Recent PhDs

Faculty:

Raymond Fogelson - Cherokee & Creek (No. Carolina, Oklahoma); Eastern Pennsylvania (psychological anthropology, primitivism, religion, tourism, museums, shamanism)
Joseph Masco - Los Alamos, New Mexico (Science Studies); Pacific NW (Native America); (Science studies, anthropology of security, social theory, race and nation, expressive culture
Michael Silverstein- Wishram & Wasco Chinookan, Tsimshian (Washington, Oregon, British Columbia); Worora & related Northern Kimberley groups (Near Derby, Western Australia); (Language, semiotics of communication, culture and cognition)

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Students:

Preparing for the Field

Anthony Alvarez (A) - California (Spanish Colonial and Native American archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, warrior cultures, religion)
Eleanor Bush - Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota (Oglala Sioux; gender, postcolonialism, political and legal anthropology, ethnohistory)
Falina Enriquez -Hopi; Brazil (Metaphor in Hopi ritual song; Ethnomusicology; primary interest is popular music in Brazil)
Andrea Jenkins - Indigenous peoples of Canada and the US (Education, de/colonization, race/ethnicity, multiple marginalizations, social movements; policy narratives as they relate to Indigenous higher education in the US and Canada)
Brenden Raymond-Yakoubian - Alaska (Ecosemiotics; meaning and construction of the 'natural world'; construction of space/spatiality; ecological perception, knowledge and the significance of 'natural' objects; psychological anthropology, obsessive-compulsive disorder)
Gabriel Tusinski - Northwest Coast (Linguistic ideologies, semiotics, architecture, kinship; primary interest is East Timor)
Joseph Weiss - British Columbia (First Peoples of northern British Columbia/the Canadian arctic and sub-arctic; violence, the construction of victimhood and victimization, sovereignty, subjectivity, territoriality and mobility; "Disappearance of First Nations women in British Columbia, particularly along a northern highway known as "the Highway of Tears")

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In the Field

James Slotta (Jt. Ling) - Canadian Arctic/Nunavut/N.Quebec; "Generational Politics and Language Change in a Canadian Inuit Community"; Papua New Guinea, "Dialect, Register and the Big-Man: The Social Organization of Sporadic Linguistic Innovations in the Yupno Valley, Papua New Guinea" [primary project is in PNG]

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Writing Up

Caroline L. Brown - Fairbanks, Alaska; " ‘A Most Vital Resource': Legal Practice, Child Welfare, and Alaska Native Identity"
Denene De Quintal - Mashantucket Pequots, Connecticut; "Race, Face, and American Indian Nations: Native American Identity in the Northeast (Mashantucket Pequots of Connecticut)"
Edward Labesnki - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; "The Politics of Reconciliation: Self-Government and Bureaucratic Normalization of Aboriginal-State Relations in Northern Saskatchewan"
Michelle Lelièvre (A) - Pictou Landing, Nova Scotia; "Crucible of Colonialism: Maligomish (Nova Scotia) and the Construction of Indigenous Social Landscapes in the Post-Contact Northeast (ca 1758-1930)"
Stephen Rosecan - Philadelphia, Mississippi (Choctaw); "Becoming Spiritually and Socially Aware: Transformative Experiences and Mississippi Choctaw Sweat Lodges"
Daniel Wall - Ft. Defiance, Arizona; "Rhetorical Presentation of Cultural Nationalism among the Navajo"

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Recent PhDs

David Aftandilian (A/Phys) - "Animals, Agriculture, and Religion among Native Americans in Precontact Illinois: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Perception and Representation"
Jeffrey Anderson - Wind River Reservation, North-central Wyoming (Arapahoe); “Northern Arapahoe Knowledge and Life Movement
Grant Arndt - Hochunk/Winnebago of Wisconsin; “No Middle Ground: Ho-Chunk Powwows and the Struggle for Social Space in Native Wisconsin”
Margaret Bender - Northeast Oklahoma & Qualla Boundary, N.Carolina (Cherokee); “‘Reading Culture’: The Cherokee Syllabary and the Eastern Cherokees 1993-95”
Raymond Brinkman - Coeur d’Alene Reservation, Benewah & Kootenai counties, Idaho; “Etsmeystkhw khwe snwiyepmshtsn: ‘You know how to talk like a Whiteman’” (The 20th Century Coeur d’Alene language community; language revitalization)
David Dinwoodie - Interior British Columbia, Canada; “Reserve Memories: Historical Consciousness on the Nemiah Valley Indian Reserve”
Robert Moore (JtLing) - Warm Springs Reservation, Central Oregon; “'The People are Here & Now': The Contemporary Culture of an Ancestral Language: Studies in Obsolescent Kiksht (Wasco Wishram Dialect of Upper Chinookan)”
Larry Nesper - Northern Wisconsin (Chippewa); Waswagonniniwug: Conflict, Tradition and Identity in the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians' Spearfishing the Ceded Territory of Wisconsin
Christopher Roth - Tsimshian Nation, Prince Rupert, British Columbia; “The Social Life of Names: Personhood and Exchange among the Tsimshian”

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