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Postdoctoral FellowsA Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program was initiated to assist scholars who are dedicated to American Indian Studies and are committed to University teaching and research. This fellowship program annually provides two stipends, association with program faculty, and access to the library's vast collections. The University of Illinois Library holds nearly 10 million volumes and ranks third among academic libraries in North America and first among public libraries in the world. Click here for a pdf of the 2008-2009 Postdoctoral Fellowship annoucement 2007-2008 FellowsJill Doerfler (Anishinaabe) Jill Doerfler grew up on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota. She received her Ph.D. from American Studies at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Doerfler's primary research interest is American Indian identity. She is especially interested in the ways in which the ideology of race has functioned as a means to erase American Indian identity and how American Indians have asserted their own conceptions of identity. During the fellowship year, she will expand her dissertation, "Fictions and Fractions: Reconciling Citizenship Regulations with Cultural Values Among the White Earth Anishinaabeg," which draws upon historical documents and published literature to explore how 20th century Anishinaabe constructions of identity challenge the transparent use of race as the sole criteria for tribal citizenship, into a book manuscript. She will include two additional chapters that will enliven the historical narrative by telling it through the eyes of an extended family. She also plans to begin work on her second project tentatively titled "Captivating Indians: Touring American Indian Identity." This work will use the framework of captivity to examine and critique the representations of American Indians in statues at selected tourist destinations across the United States. It will serve as way to turn the tables on these figures, giving voice to the dynamic and diverse American Indian identities that exist today. Tol Foster (Mvskoke Creek, Oklahoma) Tol Foster received both his M.A. and Ph.D. from the English Department at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and is an Assistant Professor in the American Studies Curriculum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This year he is working on a book manuscript based on his dissertation, "Dividing Canaan: Oklahoma Writers and the Multicultural Frontier." Arguing that with the full incorporation of Indian Territory into the United States, African-Americans and Native Americans crafted a rhetorical space to argue for an inclusive America based on their own terms and concepts. Thus throughout the twentieth century a tradition of populism and a rhetoric of multicultural relation melded through the artistic output of Oklahoma based and bred artists, even as this vision was tempered by the extreme violence and corruption of what was once Indian Territory. In expanding the dissertation, Foster hopes to provide a persuasive example of a new self-critical regionalism that could serve as a bridge between Native and American studies. Among the writers considered in the study are Will Rogers, John Joseph Mathews, Melvin Tolson, Ralph Ellison, Joy Harjo, Woody Guthrie, and Joe Brainard. Past Postdoctoral Fellows |
