Shannon Prince (Cherokee) graduated as a Senior Fellow. Her senior thesis was entitled "Bones in the Other World."
[more]Kendra Taira Field (2008-2009) - (Creek) wrote her dissertation for a PhD in History at New York University, titled: "African American Migration From the Deep South to Indian Territory, 1870-1920." Kendra is now an Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies at Tufts University. She is now completing her first book, Growing Up with the Country: A Family History of Race and American Expansion.
[more]Alexanna Salmon (Yupik / Aleut). Alexanna graduated Dartmouth with a double major in Native American Studies and Anthropology. Her award was based on her senior thesis: 'Igyararmiunguunga': Qallemciq Nunaka Man'I Kuicaraami-lu. 'I Belong to Igiugig': The Story of My Home on the Kvichak River."
[more]Professor Ongtooguk (Native Alaskan) is a professor at the College of Education, University of Alaska Anchorage. He was an elected member of the Kotzebue IRA Council for three years and a delegate to the Alaska Federation of Natives. He was our Dartmouth students' choice for the GRV for academic year 2008-09. Paul teaches NAS 30: "Issues in Alaska Native Education" Fall Term, 2008 and works with individual students on thesis plans, holding weekly workshops with them.
[more]Jenny Elizabeth Tone Pah-Hote (2007-2008) - (Kiowa) completed her dissertation titled: "Envisioning Nationhood: Kiowa Expressive Culture, 1900-1950" during her time as a PhD candidate in History at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her dissertation explores how the Kiowa have used expressive culture to assert their nationhood and sovereignty. She now teaches in the Department of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has teaching interests in American Indian cultural and political history.
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