Faculty Member, (American) Indian Studies
Associate Professor
About
Anthropologist, PhD and M.A. from Indiana University, Lic.phil.I from Universitaet Basel (Switzerland). Early influences from Oceania and Indonesia, then trained as a North American anthropologist and ethnohistorian, with interests in pre- and protohistory. I expanded my field research on contemporary ecology and economy on the Great Plains into projects on indigenous nationalism, (self-)representation and the disconnection between communities and their representation.
My interests lie somewhere between economic development, symbolic structuralism, critical political philosophy, theoretical foundations, intercultural relations and ecological systems.
I have two projects going currently - one an edited volume on Ethnohistory, the other a collaborative research project on the social and cultural impact of the energy extraction boom in North Dakota.
On a more applied level, I have also been writing the contributions on the United States for the IWGIA yearbook (a great resource for anybody interested in indigenous affairs): http://www.iwgia.org
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