D. Anthony Tyeeme Clark (Meskwaki)
Assistant Professor, American Indian Studies

Office: 1204 West Nevada, Room 2000
Phone: (217) 265-0421
E-mail: tyeeme@uiuc.edu

Education
Ph.D. University of Kansas, 2004
M.A. Northwest Missouri State University, 1991
B.A. Graceland College, Iowa, 1989

Research Interests
Professor Clark's interdisciplinary program of research links three fields at the crossroads of the theoretical and methodological traditions of American Indian Studies: intellectual history, contemporary media and popular culture studies, and critical and interpretive theory. In addition to his work concerned with a relational politics of recognition through an American Indian Studies-centered practice of intellectual history, he works on understanding a relational politics of redistribution as it is created in and against contemporary media and popular cultures. His concerns with an American Indian Studies-centered intellectual history and popular culture studies extend into his commitment to participate in discussions about theory and method in Indigenous Studies, which must have at their core a struggle for autonomy from established disciplinary theories and methods (e.g., in ethnohistory and literary studies).

Editorships
Co-editor, Indigenous Futures Series, University of Nebraska Press
Associate Editor, Wicazo Sa Review, University of Minnesota Press

Approach to Teaching
Professor Clark's teaching philosophy generally is grounded in critical pedagogy. Specifically it is rooted in the lifework of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire (e.g., Pedagogy of the Oppressed) and the wider body of anti-colonial/anti-racist that stresses interdisciplinarity, self-reflection, dialogue and praxis, situated objectivity, and anti-oppression as key qualities for a democratic and social justice-oriented education.

Courses Recently Taught
AIS 101 Introduction to American Indian Studies
AIS 102 Contemporary Issues in Indian Country
AIS 278 US Native Americans Since 1850 (meets with HIST 278)
AIS 465 Politics of Popular Culture
AIS 495 (pending as 501) Indigenous Critical Theory

Future Courses (pending approval)
AIS 285 Indigenous Thinkers
AIS 502 Indigenous Decolonial Methods
AIS 579 Topics in Indigenous Histories and Politics

Recent Publications
"Resisting Exile in the 'Land of the Free': Indigenous Groundwork at Colonial Intersections" (with Malea Powell), American Indian Quarterly 32 (Winter 2008): 1-15.

"'They hate us.... Envy us.... Want us only if we're dead,' or, Black Hawk Lives for Your Sins," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 100, no 3 (2007): 268-278.

"At the Headwaters of a Twentieth-Century 'Indian' Political Agenda: Rethinking the Origins of the Society of American Indians," in Beyond Red Power: Rethinking Twentieth-Century American Indian Politics, edited by Daniel M. Cobb and Loretta Fowler (School of American Research Press, 2007), 70-90.

"Decolonization Matters," Wicazo Sa Review 22 (Spring 2007): 101-118.

"American Indian Peoples," in Making of the American West: People and Perspectives, edited by Benjamin H. Johnson (ABC-CLIO, 2007), 19-45.

"'To Feel the Drumming Earth Come Upward': Indigenizing the American Studies Discipline, Field, Movement" (first author, with Norman Yetman), American Studies 46 (Fall/Winter 2005): 7-21.

"Wa a o, wa ba ski na me ska ta! 'Indian' Mascots and the Pathology of Anti-Indigenous Racism," in In the Game: Race, Identity, and Sports in the Twentieth Century, edited by Amy Bass (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 137-166.

"Indigenous Voice and Vision as Commodity in a Mass-Consumption Society: The Colonial Politics of Public Opinion Polling," American Indian Quarterly 29, nos. 1-2 (Winter-Spring 2005): 228-238.

"Not the End of the Stories, Not the End of the Songs: Visualizing, Signifying, Counter-colonizing," in Indigenizing the Academy: Transforming Scholarship and Empowering Communities, edited by Devon Abbott Mihesuah and Angela Cavender Wilson (University of Nebraska Press, 2004), 218-232.