AISC Welcomes IAC 2009 Visiting Scholar, Amy Lonetree

The American Indian Studies Center welcomes Assistant Professor Amy Lonetree as our Institute of American Cultures Visiting Scholar, 2009-10. Professor Lonetree is currently a faculty member at UC Santa Cruz in the American Studies Department.

Professor Amy Lonetree
email: lonetree@ucsc.edu

3220 Campbell Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095
310-825-7315 (phone), 310-206-7060 (fax)

 

Degrees:
Ph.D. Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
M.A. Social Sciences, University of Chicago
M.A. History, Indiana University
B.A. History, University of Minnesota

Areas of Expertise:
Indigenous History, Museum Studies, Memory and American History, Native American Cultural Production, Public History, and Ho-Chunk Tribal History

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Co-editor with Amanda J. Cobb, The National Museum of the American Indian: Critical Conversations (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming 2008).

Guest Editor, "Critical Engagements with the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian," a special issue of the American Indian Quarterly, Volume 30, No. 3 and 4, Summer/Fall 2006.

"Missed Opportunities: Reflections on the National Museum of the American Indian" in American Indian Quarterly, Volume 30, No. 3 and 4, Summer/Fall 2006, p. 632-645. Revised and expanded form of essay as "'Acknowledging the Truth of History': Missed Opportunities at the National Museum of the American Indian," in Amy Lonetree and Amanda J. Cobb, ed., The National Museum of the American Indian: Critical Conversations (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming 2008)

"Continuing Dialogues: Evolving Views of the National Museum of the American Indian", in The Public Historian, Invited Roundtable on the National Museum of the American Indian, Volume 28, No. 2, Spring 2006, p. 57-61.

"Transforming Lives by Reclaiming Memory: The Dakota Commemorative March of 2004," in Waziyatawin Angela Wilson, ed., In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors: The Dakota Commemorative Marches of the 21st Century (St. Paul, MN: Living Justice Press, 2006), 246-256.

Selected Awards and Honors:
Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship for Academic Diversity, University of California, Berkeley, 2004-2006.