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2006-2007 FellowsPostdoctoral Research Associate in American Indian Studies Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert is enrolled with the Hopi Tribe from the Village of Upper Moencopi, Arizona. Dr. Gilbert received his Ph.D. in Native American History and a M.A. in Public History (Historic Preservation) from the University of California, Riverside, and also holds an M.A. in Theology from Talbot School of Theology (Biola University). Currently, Dr. Gilbert serves as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). At the UIUC, Dr. Gilbert teaches a course in the AIS program on Indian boarding school experiences and a transnational/comparative course in the History Department on education and assimilation. Before arriving at the UIUC, Dr. Gilbert held adjunct faculty positions in history at the University of Redlands, Azusa Pacific University, The Master’s College, and San Bernardino Valley Community College. Conducting his research with the cooperation and involvement of the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office in Kykotsmovi, Arizona, Dr. Gilbert examines the history of Indian education and Hopi-Government relations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In addition to publishing articles on Hopi history and producing a documentary film on the Hopi boarding school experience, Dr. Gilbert is working on a book manuscript titled Education Beyond the Mesas: Hopi Student Involvement at Sherman Institute, 1902-1929, which is under contract with the University of Nebraska Press. In August 2007, Dr. Gilbert will serve as an Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies & History at the UIUC.
Kristina Ackley is a Member of the Faculty at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington where she teaches in the Native American Studies program. She received a Ph.D. in American Studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a M.A. in American Indian Studies from the University of Arizona. Dr. Ackley's research extends her dissertation, "We Are Oneida Yet: Discourse in the Oneida Land Claim." Her scholarly interests closely connect her research with student-centered learning; including community-determined research, Indigenous theories and methods in Native American Studies, anti-Indian movements, and oral history. She has written and lectured on the use of the image of the "Indian" in American society, the contemporary Oneida land claim, and Indian gaming. During her fellowship year Dr. Ackley will study the idea of unity in the land claim as seen in her home community of Oneida, Wisconsin. Kim Benita Furumoto
Her areas of interest include federal Indian law and policy, critical race theory, postcolonial theory, race and religion, and existential philosophy. |
Kristina Ackley (Oneida/Bad River Chippewa)
Kim Benita Furumoto (Yaqui) received a Ph.D. in the School of Justice and Social Inquiry and a J.D. from the College of Law at Arizona State University. This year she is working on a book manuscript based on her dissertation, "Racial Juris-Fiction: Federal Indian Law from the Discovery Doctrine to Allotment." Reading law as literary text, this interdisciplinary project traces the racial-colonial conceptions of Indians in U.S legal discourses, drawing upon critical race theory and studies of colonialism in various global contexts. In another related project in progress, she is attempting to examine how the racial-religious otherness ascribed to Indians in western juridical-theological treatises was central to the formation of modern international law. Dr. Furumoto has also done legal work on tribal repatriation rights cases, and plans to continue engaging federal Indian law both as an object of critical theorizing and as a field of legal practice.
