Hunter Cox (Prairie Band Potawatomi) was awarded the writing prize for his senior thesis: "The Bolivian Constitution: A Truly Ethnic Phenomenon?"
[more]Chukan Brown (2010-2011) - (Aleut and Inupiat) received her PhD in Philosophy from McGill University, with a Graduate Certificate in Gender and Women's Studies. Her doctoral work considers questions of indigenous identity by beginning first with a critique of contemporary race theory and theories of social identity. After teaching Ethics, Epistemology, and Social Philosophy at Northern Arizona University, she left the academic arena and is now a writer-philosopher who writes, travels, freelances, and draws commissions.
[more]Terra L. Branson (2010) Muscogee (Creek) was awarded the writing prize for her Senior Thesis: " Enduring Political Change: The Story of Mvskoke."
[more]Noelani Arista (2009-2010) - (Hawaiian) received her PhD in American History from Brandeis University. Her dissertation "Outrage and Silence: Encountering History in Early Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i" reorients the discussion about the role New England missionaries played in Hawaiian politics and governance, the formation of law, and the persistence of kapu (oral chiefly pronouncement) in the decades before the first Hawaiian constitution (1840). She is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa in the Department of History.
[more]Dagmar Seely (Sac and Fox of Oklahoma) NAS Visiting Tribal Scholar 2009-2010. Dagmar is in her 4th year as a Ph.D. student at Indiana University, Bloomington. She received a Master of Arts in Philanthropic Studies from Indiana University in 2005.Her two primary academic areas of interest are philanthropic studies and higher education. While at Dartmouth Dagmar worked on her research project regarding Mohegan scholar and fundraiser Samson Occom.
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