CIRCE STURM

Curriculum Vitae
Department of Anthropology and the Indigenous Studies Initiative
University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station, C3200, Austin, Texas 78712
W: (512) 232-1561, H: (512) 469-5906, Fax: (512) 471-6535, E-mail: circe@austin.utexas.edu

EDUCATION

1997 Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology with a Designated Emphasis in

Native American Studies, University of California, Davis.

Dissertation: Blood Politics: Racial Hybridity and Identity in the Cherokee

Nation of Oklahoma. Doctoral Committee: Carol A. Smith (Chair), Inés
Hernandez-Avila (Nimipu/Chicana), James F. Brooks, Aram Yengoyan.

1994 M.A. in Linguistic Anthropology, University of California, Davis.

1991 B.A. cum laude in Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin.

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2009-present Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas,

Austin.

2003-2009 Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Native American

Studies Program, University of Oklahoma, Norman.

1997-2003 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Native American

Studies Program, University of Oklahoma, Norman.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

In Press Becoming Indian: The Struggle For Cherokee Identity in the 21st Century. Santa
Fe: School of Advanced Research Press (Forthcoming 2010/11, Spring
catalogue).

2002 Blood Politics: Race, Culture and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
Berkeley: University of California Press (eight printings).

Winner of the 2002 Outstanding Book on Oklahoma History Award and

Finalist for the 2002 Oklahoma Book Award (non-fiction category).
Reviewed in American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Comparative
Studies in Society and History, Western Historical Quarterly, Journal of
American Folklore, Journal of the West, Journal of American Ethnic History,
Ethnic and Racial Studies, Ethnohistory, Plains Anthropologist, Journal of the
Royal Anthropological Institute, and L’Homme.
Visual Ethnographies

2007 Texas Tavola: A Taste of Sicily in the Lone Star State (35 minutes: DV), an
ethnographic portrait of a large and significant religious ceremony during
which a single Sicilian American family hosts 800 guests in honor of St.
Joseph. The film traces La Tavola di San Giuseppe back to the small, rural
towns of Western Sicily and shows its importance to the large Sicilian-
American community of Central East Texas. Co-produced and co-
directed with Randolph Lewis. Filmed on location in Bryan, Texas and
Western Sicily. Distributed by Folkstreams.

Screenings:
1. American Italian Historical Association, Denver, CO, November
2007 (premiere).
2. Sam Noble Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma,
Norman, OK, November, 2007.
3. Conference on Race, Gender and Sexuality, University of
Vermont, Burlington, VT, February 2008.
4. EtnoFilm ’08, Commune di Scicli, Sicily, Italy, August 13, 2008
5. Society for Visual Anthropology Ethnographic Film Festival
(juried), American Anthropological Association, San Francisco,
CA, November 2008.
6. John D. Calandra Institute for Italian American Studies, Queens
College, New York, New York, March 2009.

Reviewed in Italian Americana 2009 27 (1): 106-7.

Articles and Chapters: Peer-Reviewed

2008 “The Freedmen: The Black Indian Experience in Oklahoma.” Co-authored

with Kristy Feldhousen. In Indians in Contemporary Society, Volume II,
Handbook of North American Indians, ed. by Garrick Bailey, Washington,
DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.

2008 “Writing, Teaching and Filming Material Lives: A Conversation between

Ruth Behar and Circe Sturm.” Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive
Scholarship and Pedagogy 18 (1): 65-84.

2007 “States of Sovereignty: Race Shifting, Recognition and Rights in Cherokee

Country.” In Beyond Red Power: New Perspectives on Twentieth-Century
American Indian Political History. Eds. Daniel M. Cobb and Loretta Fowler,
Santa Fe: School of American Research Press.

2006 “Reconsidering Race and Culture in the Early South.” Co-authored with
Claudio Saunt, Celia Naylor, Barbara Krauthamer, and Tiya Miles.
Ethnohistory 53: 02 (Spring).

2002 “Blood Politics, Racial Classification and Cherokee National Identity:

The Trials and Tribulations of the Cherokee Freedmen” (revised and
expanded). In Confounding the Color Line: Indian-Black Relations in North
America. James Brooks (ed.). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

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1999 “Escritura Antigua y Mensajes Nuevos: El Papel del Alfabetismo
Jeroglífico en el Activismo Cultural Maya. In Rujotayixik ri Maya’
B’anob’al: Activismo Cultural Maya. Guatemala: Editorial Cholsamaj, pp.
155-173.

1998 “Blood Politics, Racial Classification and Cherokee National Identity:

The Trials and Tribulations of the Cherokee Freedmen.” In Confounding
the Color Line: Native American-African American Relations in Historical and
Anthropological Perspective, a special issue of American Indian Quarterly
22 (1 & 2): 230-258.

1996 “Hieroglyphic Writing and Maya Cultural Activism.” In Maya Cultural

Activism: (Re)Making History, edited by Fischer and Brown. Austin:
University of Texas Press, December, pp. 114-130.

Other Publications: Editorially Reviewed

2007 Short commentary, “The Sixth Annual SANA Conference: Why New
Orleans?” in Anthropology News, February.

1999 Invited Commentary on “Complicities and Collaborations:

Anthropologists and the ‘Unrecognized’ Tribes of California” by Les W.
Field. Current Anthropology 40 (2): 205-7.

Published Reviews

Forthcoming Book Review of Religious Festive Practices in Boston’s North End: Ephemeral
Identities in an Italian American Community, by August Ferraiuolo (2009),
New York: SUNY Press, for Italian American Review (Fall 2011).

Forthcoming Film Review on “Discanto Viene a Pittsburgh,” a documentary film by

Michael Angelo DiLauro, for Italian Americana 27 (2) (Winter 2010).

2003 Book Review of Deadliest Enemies: Law and the Making of Race Relations on
and off Rosebud Reservation, by Thomas Biolsi (2001), Berkeley: University
of California Press, for Ethnohistory.

2000 Film Review on “In Whose Honor? American Indian Mascots in Sports”
by Jay Rosenthal. American Anthropologist 102 (2): 352-3

1999 Book Review of Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian
Identities around Puget Sound, by Alexandra Harmon (1998), Berkeley:
University of California Press, for American Indian Quarterly 23 (1 & 2).

Artistic Exhibitions

2007 “American Manscapes,” a sound collage, in Collaborations (group show),

Lightwell Gallery, University of Oklahoma School of Art, Norman,
Oklahoma, October.

2003 “Barbie’s Menstrual Hut,” photography and mixed media installation, in

The Red Show (group show), Living Arts Gallery, Tulsa, Oklahoma,
February.

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GRANTS AND AWARDS

External

2003-2004 National Endowment for the Humanities, Residential Fellowship, School

of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico ($27,524).

2003-2004 American Council of Learned Societies, Research Fellowship ($21,500).

2002 Outstanding Book on Oklahoma History, Oklahoma Historical Society,

for Blood Politics.

2002 Finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award, Non-Fiction Category,

Oklahoma Center for the Book, for Blood Politics.

1995-1996 National Science Foundation, Dissertation Improvement Grant,

Tahlequah, Oklahoma, Cherokee Nation ($12,000).

1992-1996 Presidential Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, University of

California, Humanities Institute ($67,000).

1991 International Education Foundation, Study Abroad Scholarship,

University of Texas at Austin ($2,500).

Internal

2010 University of Texas, Austin, US-Mexico Borderland/Indigenous Studies

Research Award Program, College of Liberal Arts, ($10,000).

2008 University of Oklahoma, Norman, Faculty Enrichment Grant, College of

Arts and Sciences ($1,200).

2008 University of Oklahoma, Norman, Faculty Enrichment Grant, College of

Arts and Sciences ($1,200).

2007 University of Oklahoma, Norman, Faculty Enrichment Grant, College of

Arts and Sciences ($1,200).

2007 University of Oklahoma, Norman, Faculty Enrichment Grant, College of

Arts and Sciences ($1,200).

2007 University of Oklahoma, Norman, Faculty Enrichment Grant, College of

Arts and Sciences ($1,200).

2006 University of Oklahoma, Norman, Faculty Enrichment Grant, College of

Arts and Sciences ($1,000).

2005 University of Oklahoma, Norman, Faculty Enrichment Grant, College of

Arts and Sciences ($1,000).

2004 University of Oklahoma, Norman, Faculty Enrichment Grant, College of

Arts and Sciences ($1,000).

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2003 University of Oklahoma, Norman, Faculty Enrichment Grant, College of
Arts and Sciences ($1,000).

2002 University of Oklahoma, Norman, Research Council Award, Office of the

Vice President for Research ($3,800).

2001 University of Oklahoma, Norman, Faculty Enrichment Grant, College of

Arts and Sciences ($1,000).

2001 University of Oklahoma, Norman, Travel Grant, Vice President for

Research ($1,000).

2000 University of Oklahoma, Norman, Faculty Enrichment Grant, College of

Arts and Sciences ($1,000).

2000 University of Oklahoma, Norman, Travel Grant, Office of the Vice

President for Research ($812).

2000 University of Oklahoma, College of Arts and Sciences, Junior Faculty

Summer Fellowship ($6,000).

1999 University of Oklahoma, Norman, Faculty Enrichment Grants, College of

Arts and Sciences ($1,500).

1998 University of Oklahoma, Norman, Travel Grant, Office of the Vice

President for Research and College of Arts and Sciences ($1,000).

1998 University of Oklahoma, Norman, Junior Faculty Research Fellowship,

Office of the Vice President for Research and College of Arts and
Sciences ($6,000).

1997 University of Oklahoma, Norman, Travel Grant, Office of the Vice

President for Research and College of Arts and Sciences ($800).

1996-1997 University of California, Davis, Graduate Writing Fellowships,

Department of Anthropology and Office of Graduate Studies
($7,500).

1995-1996 University of California, Davis and Humanities Institute Graduate

Research Award ($1,500).

PAPERS PRESENTED

2010 Commentator and Chair, “Removals and Relocation in 20th Century

American Indian Activism.” Native American and Indigenous Studies
Association, May, Tuscon, Arizona

2008 “Carol Smith Festschrift…Not! Essays in Honor of an Irreverent Mind.”

American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, November, San
Francisco, California.

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2008 “When Objects Become Subjects and Places Travel: The Case of a Sicilian
American Festa.” Place Matters: Material Culture, Folk Art and the Making of
Italian American Spaces” (organizer C. Sturm), American Italian Historical
Association, November, New Haven, Connecticut.
2007 “Differential Passing and Indigenous Reclamation: The Racial and
Cultural Politics of Cherokee Neotribalism.” Invited Session, American
Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, November, Washington,
D.C.
2007 “The Hairnet on My Grandmother’s Testa Cucuzza: A Sicilian Texan
Memoir.” Writing the Family Memoir: Histories, Stories and Other
Fabrications, American Italian Historical Association, November, Denver,
Colorado.
2006 “States of Sovereignty: Race Shifting, State Recognition, and Tribal Rights
in Cherokee Country.” The State of Sequoyah Commission History
Conference, Sponsored by the Cherokee Nation, September, Catoosa, OK.
2006 “Cherokee Race Shifters: Questions of Authenticity in a Neoliberal Age.”
American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, December, San
Jose, California.

2006 Commentator, “Critical and Dangerous Issues in Ethnographic Research

in Native North America.” American Anthropological Association
Annual Meetings, December, San Jose, California.

2005 “Reconsidering Race and Recognition in Indian Country.” Race, Place and
Recognition: Papers in Honor of Karen Blu. Annual Meeting of the American
Society for Ethnohistory, November, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

2004 “Bill Clinton’s Cherokee Grandmother: The Racial and Cultural Politics of
Claiming Indian Kin.” American Studies Association Annual Meetings,
November, Atlanta, Georgia.

2003 “Federal versus State Recognition: The Debate over Cherokee

Authenticity.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings,
November, Chicago, Illinois.

2001 “Confounding the Color Line: Race, Culture and Identity among the
Cherokee Freedmen of Oklahoma.” Race in the 21st Century, Annual
Meeting of the Collegium for African-American Research, Sardinia, Italy,
March.

2000 “Race Renegades: The Cultural Politics of Becoming Cherokee.” Southern

Anthropological Society Annual Meetings, March, Mobile, Alabama.

1999 “Blood and Marriage: The Interplay of Kinship, Race and Power in
Cherokee Communities.” American Anthropological Association Annual
Meetings, November, Chicago, Illinois.

1998 “‘Passing’ and Population: The Racial and Cultural Politics of Becoming
Cherokee.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings,
December, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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1997 “The Politics of Blood, Race and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of
Oklahoma.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings,
November, Washington D.C.

1996 “Resisting Racial and Social Classification: The Strange Case of the
Cherokee Freedmen.” American Anthropological Association Annual
Meetings, November, San Francisco.

1995 “Cherokee by Blood, Color or Culture? Beyond the Boundaries of Race.”

Gathering Our Voices/Sharing Our Songs: A University of California
Native American Women's Conference, May, Davis.

1993 “Hieroglyphic Literacy and Maya Nationalism.” American

Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, November, Washington
D.C.

INVITED LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS

2010 “Blood Politics in Indian Country.” Keynote Speaker, The 4th Annual
Cultural Native American Awareness Conference, Texas State University-
San Marcos and the Native American Student Association, April, San
Marcos, Texas.

2009 “Going Native: The Racial and Cultural Politics of Reclaiming Cherokee
Kin.” Invited Lecture, The Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and
the Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, April, Palo Alto,
California.

2007 “Going Native: The Racial and Cultural politics of Reclaiming Cherokee
Kin.” Invited Lecture, Indigenous Studies Speakers Series, Office of
Diversity and Community Engagement and the Department of
Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, October, Austin, TX.

2007 Participant in Advanced Seminar, “Comparative Indigeneities of the

Americas.” Interdisciplinary International Research Circle, Office of
International Programs, University of Minnesota, November,
Minneapolis, Minnesota.

2007 “States of Sovereignty: Race, Recognition and Rights in Cherokee

Country.” Invited Lecture, Institute of Native American Studies,
University of Georgia, March, Athens, GA.

2006 “Going Native: The Racial and Cultural Politics of Being and Becoming
Indian.” Transcending Disciplines, Transcending Cultures: Native American
Studies Today. Invited Lecture, Vice Provost for Diversity Initiatives, The
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, The Center for
Ethnomusicology, The Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History,
the Departments of History, Anthropology and Psychology, Columbia
University, October, New York, New York.

2006 “Going Native: The Racial and Cultural Politics of Being and Becoming
American Indian.” Invited Lecture, Facoltá di Lingue e Letterature

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 Straniere, Dipartimento di Filologia Moderna, Universitá degli Studi di
Catania, March, Sicily, Italy,

2005 “Cherokee Freedmen and Collective Resistance: How History Informs the
Present.” Invited Lecture, Descendents of Freedman of the Five Civilized
Tribes Association, Annual Conference, June, Norman, Oklahoma.

2005 “Claiming Redness: The Racial and Cultural Politics of Becoming

Cherokee.” Invited lecture, Departments of Anthropology and American
Studies, Wesleyan University, April, Middletown, Connecticut.

2004 “Cherokee Freedmen: Public Perceptions, Historical Facts, Legal

Strategies.” Invited lecture, Descendents of Freedmen of the Five
Civilized Tribes Association, September, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

2004 Participant in Advanced Seminar, “Native American Identity.”

Organized by Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne/Muskogeee), Morning Star
Institute, Washington D.C.. School of American Research, May, Santa Fe,
New Mexico.

2004 Participant in Advanced Seminar, “Doing Indigenous Research: Theory

and Practice.” Organized by Jennifer Nez Denetdale (Diné), Department
of History, University of New Mexico. School of American Research,
March, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

2004 “Bill Clinton’s Cherokee Grandmother: Race, Culture, Kinship and Other
Manifestations of Power in a Neoliberal Age.” Invited Lecture, 75th
Anniversary Jubilee of the Department of Anthropology, University of
New Mexico, March, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

2003 “Contemporary Native American Identities.” Invited lecture, Seminar on

Native American Identity Politics, Native American Studies program,
University of New Mexico, December, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

2003 “Claiming Redness: Race, Power, and the New Politics of Cherokee
Identity.” Invited lecture, Duke University, October, Durham, North
Carolina.

2002 Invited Lecture, “The Cherokee Freedmen: A Cultural, Political and Legal
History.” Invited lecture, Descendents of Freedmen of the Five Civilized
Tribes Association, September, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

1997 “‘Blood Is What You Make of It:’ The Politics of Race, Culture and
Nation Among the Oklahoma Cherokee.” Invited Lecture, The University
of Maryland at College Park, November, College Park, Maryland.

ANTHROPOLOGICAL FIELDWORK

2006 Sicily, Italy, Seven months ethnographic research on Sicilian Autonomy

Movement and Immigration Politics.

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2003 Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Cherokee, North Carolina, USA, Fall,
Interviews with tribal officials regarding state-recognized and self-
identified Cherokee communities.

2003 Cherokee Nation, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, USA, Summer, Interviews with

tribal officials regarding state-recognized and self-identified Cherokee
communities.

2001-2003 Oklahoma, Alabama, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, USA, Ethnographic

research on state-recognized and self-identified Cherokee communities.

1998 Cherokee Nation, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, USA, Summer, Ethnographic

research on Cherokee kinship and marriage practices.

1995-1996 Cherokee Nation, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, USA, 15 months of dissertation

research on Cherokee identity politics.

1993 Antigua and Guatemala City, Guatemala, Two months ethnographic

research on Mayan cultural activism.

1992 Comalapa, Chimaltenango, Guatemala, Six months sociolinguistic

research on Kaqchikel Mayan language and culture.

1991 Antigua, Guatemala, Summer, Kaqchikel Mayan language and culture

project with Tulane University and the University of Texas at Austin.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Cultural Anthropology, Native American Studies, American Studies, European Studies:

Race, Nationalism and Culture, Identity Politics, Nationalism and Citizenship,
Dominance, Resistance and Subjectivity, Race, Class and Gender Systems

Area Studies: Native North America (Southeastern Woodlands, Indian Territory,

Oklahoma, The Black-Indian Experience); Hemispheric Studies of Race and
Indigeneity, and Comparative Colonialisms; Central America (Guatemala, Mayan
Language, Culture and Politics); Europe (Sicily, Mediterranean, Southern Europe).

Linguistic Anthropology: Language and Culture, Writing Systems, Language

Ideologies and Power (Kaqchikel Mayan, Cherokee, Sicilian)

COURSES TAUGHT

Undergraduate

Introduction to Anthropology (four-field)

Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Cinema and Culture
Native Peoples of North America (Honors and non-Honors)
American Indian Cultures North of Mexico
Studies in Ethnography
Senior Capstone in Anthropology: History of Anthropological Theory

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Anthropological Approaches to Race and Ethnicity
Cross Cultural Studies (Honors)
Ethnographic Theory and Practice

Graduate

Contemporary Anthropological Theory

The Politics and Poetícs of Identity
The Politics and Conditions of Indigeneity
Research and Grant Proposal Writing

DISSERTATION AND THESIS COMMITTEES (COMPLETED)

2008 To Be Who You Are: Freedmen Identities in Oklahoma by Kristy Feldhousen-

Giles, Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Oklahoma.

2008 Informal Identity and the Mimbres Phenomenon: Investigating Regional Identity
and Archaeological Cultures in the Mimbres Mogollon by Bernard A. Schriever,
Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Oklahoma.

2007 Social Networks and Knowledge Systems among the Caddo and Delaware of
Western Oklahoma by Rhonda S. Fair, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of
Oklahoma (Chair).

2007 The Development of Late Paleo-Indian Identity-Based Territories on the

Southern Plains by Stance Hurst, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Oklahoma.

2005 Sociopolitical Boundaries and the Communication of Collective Identity on the

Tohono O’odham Reservation by Amy Spears. M.A. Thesis, University of
Oklahoma, (Chair).

2005 American Indian Painters of Oklahoma: Artistic Negotiation in the 20th Century
by Katherine Williams-O’Donnell, M.A. Thesis, University of Oklahoma.

2003 Delaware Identity in a Cherokee Nation: An Ethnography of Power by Brice M.

Obermeyer, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Oklahoma.

2002 Becoming Two-Spirit: Difference and Desire in Indian Country by Brian J. Gilley,
Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Oklahoma.

2002 Non-Governmental Organizations in the Highlands of Guerrero, Mexico by

William Yaworsky, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Oklahoma.

2001 Power and Personhood: Health Care Decision-Making in a Plains Indian

Community by Deborah Bernsten. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Oklahoma.

2001 Kinship and Social Identity among the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians: An
Analysis of Ethnic Boundary Formation and Maintenance by James Bird, M.A.
Thesis, University of Oklahoma.

1999 The Mexican Migrants of Purcell, Oklahoma by Kimberly Richardson, M.A.

Thesis, University of Oklahoma.

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LANGUAGE EXPERTISE

Spanish: fluent reading, intermediate writing and conversational ability

Italian: fluent reading, advanced writing and conversational ability
Kaqchikel: analytic knowledge and limited conversational ability
Cherokee: one year of study

CITIZENSHIP

United States, Italy

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Anthropological Association

Native American and Indigenous Studies Association
American Ethnological Society
American Italian Historical Association
American Studies Association
Society for Visual Anthropology
American Society of Ethnohistory
Society for the Anthropology of North America

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER:

2010- present Cultural Dynamics, Member of Editorial Collective, SAGE
publications.

PEER REVIEW

Journals: Transforming Anthropology (2010), Current Anthropology

(2008), American Indian Quarterly (2008), Museum
Anthropology (2005), Ethnohistory (2003), American
Anthropologist (2000), Bulletin of the National Association of
Student Anthropologists (1999), American Indian Quarterly
(1999), Human Organization: Journal of the Society for Applied
Anthropology (1998).

University Presses: University of Nebraska Press (2007, 2002), University of

North Carolina Press (2005), Blackwell Publishers (2003).

Tenure and Promotion: Barnard College, Columbia University, Department of

History (2010), Boston University, Department of Medicine
(2010), Soka University, Department of Anthropology
(2009), University of California, Los Angeles, Department
of Anthropology (2008), Dartmouth College, Department
of History (2008), University of Chicago, Department of
Anthropology (2007), University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, Department of Anthropology (2006),
University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of
Anthropology (2006).

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Departments and Programs Program in Indigenous Thought, York University (2008).

ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICE

Departmental

Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin

Faculty Governance Committee (2009-10)

Anthropology, University of Oklahoma

Committee A, Main Governing Unit, (2005-2008).

Faculty Search Committees:

Native American Cultural Anthropology, (2007-2008)
Chair, Native North American Cultural Anthropology (2006-2007)
Latin American Cultural Anthropology (2005-2006)
Latin American Cultural Anthropology (2004-2005)
Latin American Cultural Anthropology (2000-2001
Joint Cultural Anthropologist/Museum Curator Hire (1998-2000)

Teaching Oversight Committee (2002-2004)

Capstone Committee (2001-2003)

Graduate Admissions Officer, Sociocultural Program (2000-2001)

Invited Speaker, Undergraduate class in Contemporary Issues in Native

North America (2000)

Faculty Sponsor, Anthropology Graduate Student Association (1998-1999)

Faculty Sponsor, Undergraduate Anthropology Club (1997-1999)

Co-coordinator of the Graduate Student Professional Development

Seminar (1997-1999)

Native American Studies, University of Oklahoma

Host Committee, “What’s Next for Native American and Indigenous Studies? An
International Scholarly Meeting,” University of Oklahoma, Norman (2006-2007)

Chair, “What is this ‘Black’ in Studies of American Indian Culture.”

What’s Next for Native American and Indigenous Studies? An
International Scholarly Meeting, May 4th (2007)

Membership Committee (2000-2009)

American Indian Faculty Association (1997-2009)

Native American Studies, University of California, Davis

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 Member, Indigenous Research Center of the Americas (1996-2005)

Co-Chair, Native American Student Union (1994-1995)

Member, Hemispheric Institute of the Americas (1993-2004)

University

University of Texas at Austin

Indigenous Studies Initiative, Faculty Member (2009-present)

Native Student Recruitment and Retention Committee (2010-present)

Longhorn American Indian Council, Faculty Liaison (2009-present)

Invited Discussant, Film screening of “Black Indians: An American Story,”

Indigenous Heritage Night and Spring Dinner, Longhorn American Indian
Council (April 24, 2010).

University of Oklahoma

Support of Teaching and Research Committee, College of Arts and Sciences

(1997-1999, 2005-2007)

Jack Roe Denton Scholarship Selection Committee, College of Arts and Sciences
(2005)

Student Scholarships and Awards Committee, College of Arts and Sciences,

(2001-Present)

Faculty Mentor, Ronal E. McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program,

designed to encourage first generation/low income and underrepresented
students to pursue doctoral studies (2007).

Commentator, session on “The Places of Natural History,” Where the

Biological and Social Converge: Identity, Place and Knowledge in the
History of Science, Andrew W. Mellon Conference (1999)

Chair, session on “Anthropology,” Undergraduate Research Day,

Honors College (1999)

Invited Speaker, “Testimonio y Rigoberta Menchú,” Graduate Seminar in

Latin American Autobiography, Department of Modern Languages and
Linguistics (1999)

Chair, “Literary Images of Dissidence and State in Africa,” 3rd Annual

Conference of The Mid-America Alliance for African Studies (1997)

Professional

Board Member-At-Large, Society for the Anthropology of North America,

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 American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C. (2005-2007)

Chair, Keynote Symposium, Southern Anthropological Society Annual Meetings,

March, Mobile, Alabama (2000)

Session Chair, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting,

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December (1998)

Public

Media Consultant

The Daily Oklahoman (2003, 2007)

Rocky Mountain News (2007)
Associated Press, New York, New York (2006)
Der Spiegel, Germany (2006)
New York Times Sunday Magazine, New York, New York (2005)
Michigan Public Radio, Ann Arbor, Michigan (2005)
Newsday, New York, New York (2003)

Miscellaneous

Content Advisor, high school honor student research paper, Burlington, VT

Content Advisor, Wilma Mankiller: Chief of the Cherokee Nation, Compass Point
Books, Minneapolis, MN (2005)

Chair, “Race, Culture and Identity: African American Experience in Indian

Territory.” 1st Annual Summer Conference, Descendents of Freedman of the Five
Civilized Tribes Association, May, Norman, Oklahoma (2003)

Invited Lecture, “Race Relations and Cherokee Kinship Practices in Northeastern

Oklahoma.” Oklahoma Anthropological Society, Spring Meeting, April,
Norman, Oklahoma (1999)

REFERENCES

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REFERENCES
Professor Carol Smith
Department of Anthropology
One Shields Drive
University of California
Davis, California 95616
(916) 752-9038
casmith@ucdavis.edu
Associate Prof. J. Kehaulani Kauanui
(Kanaka Maole)
American Studies and Anthropology
Wesleyan University
Center for the Americas
255 High St.
Middletown, CT 06459
(860) 685-2050
jkauanui@wesleyan.edu
Associate Professor Valerie Lambert
(Choctaw)
Department of Anthropology
UNC Chapel Hill
CB# 3115
301 Alumni Building
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3115
(919) 843-7808
vlambert@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor Jessica Cattelino
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Los Angeles
341 Haines Hall—Box 951553
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1553
(310) 825-4400
jesscatt@anthro.ucla.edu
Dr. Richard Allen (Cherokee)
Executive Support Division
Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma
P.O. Box 948
Tahlequah OK 74465
(918) 465-0671, ext. 5466
Richard-Allen@cherokee.org
Dr. James Brooks, President
School of American Research
P.O. Box 2188
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-2188
(505) 954-7206
brooks@sarsf.org
Professor Karen Blu (Emeritus)
Department of Anthropology
25 Waverly Place
New York University
New York, New York 10003
(805) 893-3636
bluk@ias.edu
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