[Conference Poster]

[On Our Own Ground Program and Schedule]

 

In Commemoration

of the

350th Anniversary

of

Harvard Indian College

 

Harvard University's

 

Committee on Ethnic Studies

Presents

the first of two Native Studies Conferences for 2004-2005

 

On Our Own Ground:

Mapping Indigeneity within the Academy

 

A National Conference

 

September 17 - 18, 2004

Harvard University

12 Quincy Street

Barker Center

Thompson Room

Room 110

Free and Open to the Public

No Registration Fees 

 

 

Keynote Speaker

 

Philip J. Deloria (Standing Rock Sioux), Ph.D. in American Studies, Yale University, 1994

Associate Professor of American History

University of Michigan
Department of History

2735 Haven Hall
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003
734-763-2091
pdeloria@umich.edu

Conference Keynote:
"Indians in Unexpected Places"

How do we tell the national story of the encounter with modernity? Is it possible to do so while taking account of Indian people as anything other than imagined primitives? Considering a number of seemingly anomalous figures — Indian opera singers, baseball players, Hollywood actors, automobile owners— this talk will suggest a distinctly native engagement with the early twentieth century modern.

Research Areas:
Issues of culture and representation, particularly concerning American Indian people; Environmental and Western American history.

Selected Publications:

 

 

Featured Panelists 

Arturo Arias, Ph.D. in Sociology of Literature, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 1978

Director of Latin American Studies and Professor of Modern Literatures and Languages

University of Redlands
Latin American Studies
Redlands, CA 92373-0999   
909-793-212
arturo_arias@redlands.edu

Conference Presentation:
"The Maya and Cultural Agency"

Delineates how the Maya's efforts to avoid big hurdles and to cope with everyday life has led over the last 25 years not only to cultural empowerment, but also to the radical transformation of the cultural landscape of their country, the Mesoamerican region as a whole, and the cultural corridors which connect them with indigenous populations in the U.S. and Canada.

Research Areas:
Issues of Ethnicity; Subaltern identity.

Selected Publications:

 

 

Lisa Brooks (Abenaki), Ph.D. in English Literature, Cornell University, 2004

Lecturer in History and Literature

Harvard University
History and Literature
Barker Center
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge , MA 02138
lbrooks@fas.harvard.edu

Conference Presentation:
"Re-mapping Indigenous Education: Samson Occom's Montauk School"

Research Areas:
Early American Indian Writing, Contemporary American Indian Literature, Oral Traditions, American Indian History, Indigenous Intellectual Traditions, Ecology/Environmentalism and Native Communities, Native Northeastern Culture and Diplomacy, Gender in American Indian Studies, Language and Indigenous Epistemology.

Selected Publications:

 

 

Tara Browner (Choctaw), Ph.D. in Music History/Musicology, University of Michigan, 1995

Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and American Indian Studies

UCLA
Ethnomusicology
2679 Schoenberg Music Building
Los Angeles , CA. 90095-1657
310-825-8449
tbrowner@ucla.edu

Conference Presentation:
"Indigenous Knowledge, Western Historiography, and the Study of Native North American Music"

Research Areas:
Native North American music and dance; Native North American contemporary music; musical imagery of Indians in popular culture; indigenous concepts of music theory, American music

Selected Publications:

 

 

Catherine A. Corman, Ph.D. in American Studies, Yale University, 1998

Independent Scholar and Writer,
Nonresident Fellow, Charles Warren Center for American History, Harvard University

Harvard University
The Charles Warren Center
Emerson Hall 4th floor
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
catherine.corman@verizon.net


Conference Presentation:
"Right Hands, Writing Hands: The Friendship of Elias Boudinot and The Rev. Samuel Austin Worcester"

Research Areas:
North American cultural history, with particular interests in the history of the book and the American West

Consultant:
Oneida Nation, worked to substantiate land claims in New York State lawsuit;
WGBH Boston, Advising writers and web designers developing an NEH-sponsored, animated children's series based on author Jon Sciezksa's Time Warp Trio series of juvenile historical fiction

Selected Publications:

 


John Putnam Demos
, M.A. in History, University of California - Berkeley, 1961
Samuel Knight Professor of American History and Professor of American Studies

Yale University
Department of History

Hall of Graduate Studies
320 York Street
P.O. Box 208324
New Haven , CT
06520-8324
203-432-1366

Conference Presentation:
"The Cornwall Foreign Mission School"

Research Areas:
Early Colonial American history; Family History

Selected Publications:

  

 

Beverley Diamond, Ph.D in Musicology, University of Toronto

Director and Canada Research Chair in Traditional Music, Ethnomusicology

Memorial University of Newfoundland
Research Centre for the Study of Music, Media, and Place
St. Johns, Newfoundland
A1C 3E7
709-737-3701
bdiamond@mun.ca

Conference Presentation:
"First Nations Recording Artists and the Uses of Media"

This paper will explore how Native American recording artists have used audio recordings as forms of social action, how the technology itself has inflected the meanings of the performances, and changed the nature of the struggle over cultural appropriation. The presentation builds on ethnographic research in recording studios and interviews with indigenous recording artists about their musical choices, recording studio experiences, and intellectual property concerns.

Research Areas:
Native music cultures in North America ; Canadian music historiography; Issues relating to gender and performance

Selected Publications:

 

 

Karl Eschbach, Ph.D. in Sociology, Harvard University, 1992

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics

University of Texas
Department of Internal Medicine
Division of Geriatrics

3.222 Jennie Sealy, Rte 0460
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston , TX 77555-0460
409-747-3516
kaeschba@utmb.edu

Conference Presentation:
"American Indian population growth at the start of the 21st Century"

Research Areas:

Selected Publications:

 

 

Eva Garroutte (Cherokee), Ph.D. in Sociology, Princeton University, 1993

Associate Professor of Sociology

Boston College
Department of Sociology
140 Commonwealth Ave
Chestnut Hill, MA  02467
617-552-2078
eva.garroutte@bc.edu

Conference Presentation:
“Real Indians: Identity and the Survival of Native America”

Research Areas:
American Indian and Racial-ethnic identity; Radical Indigenism; Medical sociology; Issues of Health Policy and American Indians.

Selected Publications:

 

 

Angela Gonzales (Hopi ), Ph.D. in Sociology, Harvard University, 2002

Assistant Professor of Development Sociology and American Indian Studies

Cornell University
Department of Development Sociology
329 Warren Hall
Ithaca , NY 14853-7801
607-255-1795
aag27@cornell.edu

Conference Presentation:
"American Indian Identity Matters: Conflicts in Epistemology and Methodology"

Research Areas:
American Indian ethnicity and identity; Nationalism and Tribal Sovereignty; Comparative Race and Ethnic relations in the United States; Social movements and processes of cultural change; American Indian religious traditions and philosophy; Gender studies; Indigenous knowledge and Intellectual property rights.

Selected Publications:

 

 

Deron Marquez (San Manuel Band of Mission Indians), Ph.D. Candidate in Politics & Public Policy, Claremont Graduate University

Tribal Chairman of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians

San Manuel Band of Mission Indians
26569 Community Center Drive
Highland , CA 92346

Conference Presentation:
"Where Sovereignty?"

Research Areas:
Tribal Sovereignty and Nationalism; Tribal gaming

Selected Publications:

 

 

Eduardo Rapiman (Mapuche)

Visual Artist

 

Conference Presentation:

 

 

Audra Simpson (Kahnawake Mohawk), Ph.D. in Anthropology, McGill University, 2004

Assistant Professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies

Cornell University
Department of Anthropology
American Indian Program

265 McGraw Hall
Ithaca, New York 14853
as447@cornell.edu

Conference Presentation:
“Nationalism and Its Contents: Mohawk Citizenship-Formation in the Face of Empire”

Contemporary political theorists assign forms of indigenous nationalism to the space of self-designation and thus to the normative and vexing question of accommodation and recognition. Indigenous nationalism is used as a test of the limits of the legal and liberal imagination and in the case of deliberative democracy, as a test to reason itself. Expressions of Indigenous nationhood and nationalism, palpable in Canada and in some pockets of Indian country in the US, force liberal theorists to ask 'how are we to accommodate claims to difference that may fundamentally challenge our own sense of what is just and right?' The task of this paper is to vex this question further, to reveal the "universalist" and ethnocentric premise that underpins citizenship theory, and concomitant processes of recognition and 'accommodation' by taking an ethnographic turn to the logics and limits of political recognition within an Indigenous nation. This ethnographic turn will dwell within the interior frontiers of sovereignty, as questions and claims to citizenship are worked out within a reserve ("reservation") community in Canada. The citizenship-formation of this community happens resolutely against the face of colonialism and empire as its citizenry not only works matters out in the face of the Canadian State, but also as they travel across the International Boundary line into other spaces and places of settler society.

Research Areas:
Nationhood; citizenship; colonialism; borders (US-Canada); the Iroquois (Mohawk)

Selected Publications:

  
 

Russell Thornton (Cherokee), Ph.D. in Sociology, Florida State University, 1968

Professor of Sociology

UCLA
Department of Anthropology
341 Haines Hall
Box 951553
Los Angeles , CA 90095-1553
rthornto@ucla.edu

Conference Presentation:
“The Importance of Being Tribal: Surviving 500 Years of American Indian Population History”

American Indian population history since the arrival of Columbus has focused on numbers of American Indians through the ensuring centuries, including the recovery of the American Indian population since circa 1900. This presentation focuses upon the survival of American Indians as tribal people.

Research Areas:
American Indian historical demography; American Indian Revitalization movements,; Contemporary American Indian Issues.

Selected Publications:

 

 

Robert Allen Warrior (Osage), Ph.D., Union Theological Seminary

Associate Professor of English

University of Oklahoma
Department of English
760 Van Fleet Oval
Gittinger Hall
Norman, OK 73019-2055
warrior@ou.edu

Conference Presentation:
"American Indian Intellectual Histories"

Focuses on some of the ways a growing awareness of American Indian intellectual history informs and challenges the ways that contemporary scholars formulate Native American studies. I will pay particular attention to William Apess and other nineteenth century Native intellectuals.

Research Areas:
American and American Indian writing; Construction of literary theory and criticism; History of the book

Selected Publications:

 

 

David E. Wilkins (Lumbee), Ph.D. in Political Science, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1990

Professor of American Indian Studies, Political Science and Law



University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
American Indian Studies
Room 102 Scott H
3232 72
Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
612-624-1634
w
ilkinsd@umn.edu

  

Conference Presentation:
"Reorienting Native Studies: Finding Common Ground between Native Academics and First Nations"

Research Areas:
Comparative politics; American political theory; Federal Indian policy; Tribal government; History of colonialism and Native peoples; Tribal Sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Selected Publications:

  

 

Craig S. Womack (Muskogee), Ph.D. in English Literature, University of Oklahoma, 1994

Assistant Professor of English

University of Oklahoma
Department of English
760 Van Fleet Oval
Gittinger Hall
Norman , OK 73019-2055
womack@ou.edu

Conference Presentation:
"A Retrospective View of Literary Nationalism"

Research Areas:
Native American literatures; Gay and Lesbian literature

Selected Publications:

 

 

Michael Yellow Bird (Sahnish/Hidatsa), Ph.D. in Social Welfare, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Associate Professor of American Studies and Director for the Center for Indigenous Nations Studies

University of Kansas
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
1410 Jayhawk Blvd.,
105 Lippincott Hall
Lawrence , KS 66045
785-864-2661
785-864-0370 Fax
mybird@ku.edu

Conference Presentation:

"The Demography of War: Indigenous Peoples and the U.S. War on Terrorism"

Research Areas:
Indigenous Peoples, U.S. foreign policy, oral histories of Native Vietnam combat veterans, the effects of colonialism and methods of decolonization, Indigenous men, human rights, and Indigenous political prisoners and prisoner rights.

Selected Publications:

 

Panel Chairs

 

Lisa Brooks (Abenaki), Ph.D. in English Literature (w/minor in American Indian Studies), Cornell University

Lecturer in History and Literature

Harvard University
Barker Center
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge , MA 02138
lbrooks@fas.harvard.edu

 

 

Joe Kalt, Ph.D. in Economics, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), 1980

Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy,
Co-Director, The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development
Faculty Adviser, Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP)

John F. Kennedy School of Government
79 J.F. Kennedy Street - T416
Cambridge , MA 02138
617-495-4966
joe_kalt@harvard.edu

Research Areas:
Economic implications and political origins of the government regulation of markets; Industrial Organization; Economics of Antitrust and Regulation; Natural Resource Economics; Public Choice and Political Economy; Microeconomic Theory.

Selected Publications:

 

 

Jill Lepore, Ph.D. in American Studies, Yale University

Professor of History

Harvard University
History Department
Robinson 209
Cambridge , MA 02138
617-496-5083
jlepore@fas.harvard.edu

Research Areas:
Colonial British North America, American Revolution and the Early Republic , US cultural history, with a particular interest in the history of print and of race and violence.

Selected Publications:

 

 

C. Matthew Snipp (Cherokee), Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Professor of Sociology and Chair of Native American Studies

Stanford University
Department of Sociology
Bldg. 120 - Rm. 138
650-725-0414
snipp@leland.stanford.edu

Research Areas:
Demographics, Social stratification, Race and Ethnicity

Selected Publications:

 

 

Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology, University of Michigan, 1977

G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music
Professor of African and African American Studies
Graduate Advisor in Ethnomusicology

Harvard University
Department of Music
Music Building
105S/6 Paine
617-495-2791
shelemay@fas.harvard.edu

Research Areas:
Ethiopian music; Musical diversity in North America ; Musical ethnography; Music and memory

Selected Publications:

 

 

Doris Sommer, Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Rutgers University, 1977

Ira Jewell Williams, Jr. Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures,
Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish
Director, Cultural Agents Initiative, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS),

Harvard University
Romance Languages and Literatures
Boylston Hall 417
617-495-5273
dsommer@fas.harvard.edu

Research Areas:
The Americas ; 19th-Century Narrative; Latin American Women's Literature; Ethnic Literatures.

Selected Publications:

 

 

Conference Organizers

 

Werner Sollors, Dr. phil., Freie Universität Berlin, 1975

Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature
Professor of African and African American Studies, and
Chair of the Committee on Ethnic Studies

Harvard University
Department of African and African American Studies
Barker Center
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
sollors@fas.harvard.edu

Research Areas:
American Literature; American Studies; Ethnicity; Comparative Literature; Themes and Motifs

Selected Publications:

 

 

Judy Kertész (Lumbee), Ph.D. Candidate in History of American Civilization, Harvard University

Harvard University
History of American Civilization
Barker Center
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge , MA 02138
kertesz@fas.harvard.edu

Research Areas:
Colonial British North America and the Early Republic, US cultural history, issues and representation; American Indian histories and cultures; American Nationalism; Museum Studies and Material Culture; African-American Studies.

Selected Publications:

 

 

Conference Assistants

 

Stephanie Macaris Alusow

Staff Assistant
Office of Academic Programs
Harvard College

Lauren Brandt

('01), Ph.D. Candidate,
History of American Civilization,
GSAS,
Harvard University

Margot Minardi

('00), Ph.D. Candidate
History
GSAS, Harvard University

Credits

Judy Kertész
Lauren Brandt

Sunday, April 3, 2005 11:18 AM