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Graduate Students, Profiles of Research
Current Graduate students, profiles
of research
- Milo Alvarez is researching the relationships
between Chicano Brown Power movement and the American Indian
Movement with particular emphasis on Chicanos and their
identity as persons descended from Native Americans.
- Wendy Lucas Castro is a graduate student
in History and her work focuses on bi-ethnic (half Indian/half
European) people on the colonial frontier.
- Ian Chambers: Ian Chambers: Ian is A
British PhD candidate in the department of History who is
currently working on his dissertation looking at Cherokee
and English understandings of space during the eighteenth
century in the southern colonies, specifically Georgia.
Ian is exploring how these understandings affected the contact
moment during the colonial period.
- Raul Chavez is researching the ways
in which film images of Indians reinforce paternalistic
assumptions of Anglo American viewers.
- Kathleen Dailey is researching the creation
of race in the colonial period, concentrating on the Irish,
Native Americans, and African Americans as “Races”
- Matthew R. Des Lauriers, Dept. of Anthropology,
primary interests include: Archaeology of Western North
America, Lithic Technology, Peopling of the New World, Maritime
Hunter-Gatherers, and Cultural Ecology. Current dissertation
research on Isla Cedros, Baja California Norte (Proyecto
Arqueolo gico Isla Cedros), focusing on the variation between
and contacts linking mainland and island societies, and
the antiquity and nature of the maritime adaptation of Huamalguan
(native name for the island) society (which was lost in
1732 due to introduced European diseases and the detrimental
effects of the Baja California mission system). E-mail:
amalgua@yahoo.com,
- Claudia Garcia-Des Lauriers, M.A. History
of Art, M.A. Anthropology and Ph.D. Student Department of
Anthropology. My research interests lie in Mesoamerica.
I conduct research primarily on the art and archaeology
of Teotihuacan, Mexico, focusing on questions of political
organization, religion, writing, and long distance networks
with other Mesoamerican cultures such as the Maya and Zapotec.
E-mail: tlacochcalco@yahoo.com
- Matt Sakiestewa Gilbert: Matt is a graduate
student in Native American history at the University of
California, Riverside. He is a member of the Hopi Tribe
(Sand Clan) from the village of Upper Moencopi, Arizona.
He received a B.A. in History from The Master's College
(Santa Clarita, CA) and an M.A. in Theology from Biola University
(La Mirada, CA). Currently, Matt is conducting research
on The Sherman Project: A History of Hopi Student Involvement
at Sherman Institute, 1902-2004. The Sherman Project is
conducted with the cooperation and involvement of the Hopi
Tribe’s Cultural Preservation Office (HCPO), the Sherman
Indian Museum, and the University of California, Riverside.
In addition to research, Matt teaches as an adjunct faculty
in history at The Master's College and has recently submitted
a paper titled, “The Hopi Followers: Chief Tawaquaptewa
and Hopi Student Advancement at Sherman Institute, 1906-1909,”
for publication consideration to the Journal of American
Indian Education (JAIE). Additional information on Matt’s
research can be found at the Hopi Education Endowment Fund
website at: http://www.hopieducationfund.org/student.html
- To contact Matt, feel free to email him at: matthew.gilbert@email.ucr.edu
- Kimberly Hedrick, Kimberly
Hedrick is a graduate student in the department of anthropology.
Her doctoral research focuses on the cultural and political
ecology of cattle ranching in the American West. As part
of this research, she has been working on the history of
California ranching, including the role of Native Californians
in the cattle industry. Email: kimberly.hedrick@email.ucr.edu
- Adam Hungate: History Department, Doctoral
Candidate. My research looks at Navajo (Dine') uranium mining
and milling, in the context of the Cold War. I am looking
at traditional and new forms of internal colonial exploitation
of indigenous people and their land in the relationship
between the Navajo, mining companies, and the US government.
Exploring this relationship within the new imperial role
the US was propelled into during and after World War II,
I look at new forms of colonial exploitation that evolve
under the guise of Containment and the national security,
relating this model to the Navajo uranium experience. I
am looking into the economics of uranium mining, wage labor
and mining contracts with tribes, health effects from excessive
radiation exposure, human radiation testing, environmental
contamination, remedial cleanup efforts, and compensation
legislation. E-mail: ahungate@citrus.ucr.edu
- Terri Jacquemain: (Mohawk) Terri is currently
a graduate student in the M.A. Public History program at
UCR (expected date of graduation: Fall 2004). Her most recent
project includes reading, researching and writing about
some of the public (external) and private (internal) challenges
that gaming tribes face (including retention of traditional
ways), as they develop as powerful players in political
and economic arenas.
- Larry Leach: research on the relationship
of Texas Rangers with Comanches and Kiowas.
- Cyndy Leigh is researching a lumber
"company town" located on the White Mountain Apache
Reservation during the Twentieth Century.
- Thomas Long is researching the history
of Graton Rancheria of Northern California and the effects
of environmental and food changes on their history, diets,
and diseases.
- Teresa Lorden, Anthropology: Critical
research on the history of California Archaeology, its relationship
with, and impacts on California Indians. Also working with
the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Mission Indians on the
training of Native American Archaeological Site Monitors.
E-mail: TLo1024293@aol.com
- Leleua Loupe: research on Native American
women leaders in Southern California. She is a research
associate for the Costo Historical and Linguistics Research
Center.
- Anthony Madrigal (Cahuilla): research
on Indian gaming and the use of gaming dollars to support
tribal cultural and environmental initiatives. Working presently
for the Twenty-Nine Palms Band in cultural and environmental
programs.
- Carrie McLachlan: research on Cherokee
concepts of place during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Centuries.
- James McPherson, Anthropology: I’m
a graduate student at UCR majoring in Archaeology. My focus
is on the waste by-products (debitage) of stone tool production
and linguistics of Southern California Native Americans.
At this time I’m working with the Pechanga Band of
Luiseño Mission Indians, assisting them in the refinement
of their Cultural Resource Program. This program facilitates
their desire to protect the sites in this region that reflect
the pre- and post-contact life-ways of American Indians
who called this area “home.” E-mail: grandpa.jim@verizon.net
- William Medina: William was born and
raised in Riverside, California. Before he started graduate
school, he managed his family's business in Riverside. His
area of study is Native American History. He is currently
doing research on Sherman Institute, an off-reservation
Indian boarding school.
- Henrietta Moore (Cherokee). I am an
English graduate student, 2nd year MA. I plan to study American
literature with an emphasis on Native American literature.
I have worked for many years in the American Indian Studies
Department at Palomar College and have worked with Indian
students on campus and at Pauma Indian Reservation. I have
Cherokee ancestry and I'm a member of the Oklahoma Cherokee
Nation. E-mail: anawega@aol.com.
- Rachael Nixon: Rachael is currently a
graduate student in the Public History program at University
of California, Riverside. She received an undergraduate
degree in anthropology/archaeology at UCR. Her research
is primarily focused on archaeobotanical findings from archaeological
sites primarily contact period sites. Specifically focusing
on ecological, medicinal, dietary, and inter-cultural changes
of indigenous people through the exchange of plants, foods,
and animals with European contact.
- Patricia Ploesch, Patricia Ploesch is
a PhD student in English whose work focuses on Native/Indigenous/First
Nation literature and visual culture, including Hulleah
Tsinhnahjinnie, Thirza Cuthand, Louis Owens, Craig Womack,
and Wendy Rose.
- Tanya Rathburn:
Tanya Rathbun is an aspiring Public Historian in the Public
History Graduate Program here at UC Riverside. She received
her Bachelor's Degree in 2002 from UCR in History with a
focus in U.S. History/Native American History. During her
Undergraduate career she began independent research on Indian
Boarding Schools, particularly sectarian schools among local
tribes.
For four years Tanya worked at local Riverside County
historic parks and nature centers giving interpretive
tours in both Victorian costume and Park ranger gear.
While there she learned an extremely important lesson:
The point in gaining historical knowledge is not to simply
know interesting stuff, but to re-hash the knowledge into
a lens to view one's environment.
Because we have such a culturally-rich environment here
in Southern California, Tanya especially favors local
history. She recently completed a year-long internship
with the City of Riverside's award winning Historic Preservation
Program (http:www.riversideca.gov/historic.htm). In May
2004, Tanya began accepted a position with the California
Missions Foundation (http:www.missionsofcalifornia.org),
a non-sectarian, non-profit organization dedicated to
preserving and protecting the twenty-one Spanish missions
along the California coast. As assistant to Executive
Director Dr. Knox Mellon, Tanya is eager to help bring
Native perspectives on the mission experience into the
California Mission's interpretive fold.
Tanya Rathbun can be reached via email
or through UCR's History department.
- Susan Sanchez: research on the Indian
Claim Cases in California. She is completing research at
the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
- Carey Speros: Carey is a graduate student
in Public History. She is currently conducting research
at the Sherman Indian High School, with specific focus on
the Sherman Indian Cemetery and how it reflects the history
of the school in general. In addition to her work at Sherman,
Carey is also interested in studying how colonial and Native
American societies interacted and represented each other's
cultures.
- Darlene M. Suarez, Anthropology. Research
interests: California Indian Trust Land and Regulation Changes;
Native American Sociopolitical Culture framed theoretically
within History, Power, Race, Class and White Privilege;
Politics of Sovereignty, Identity, and Indian Nationhood;
Cultural Conflict; Dual Identities of Native Americans in
Contemporary Societies; sources of Empowerment for Tribal
Women and Youth; Studies of Self-Defeating Behaviors –
Drug Abuse and Alcoholism among Native Americans; Health
& Illness among Native Americans; Life Histories and
Biographies Across Cultures. Dissertation project: A case
study examining one Kumeyaay Indian community’s experiences
in particular locales through time and space. Focusing specifically
on Indian land history, sovereignty, and cultural identities.
E-mail: dsuarez@ucsd.edu
- John A Torres (Navajo), Anthropology.
Research interests: Athabaskan Migration and the arrival
of the Navajo/Apache people into the American Southwest,
Apachean archaeology, and lithic technology. Current the
curator of archaeology for the Museum of Indian Arts and
Culture in Santa Fe, NM, he was formerly a tribal archaeologist
for the Navajo Nation where he worked on various archaeological
projects across the Navajo reservation including a major
study of early Navajo sites of Dinétah (the traditional
homeland of the Navajo). The data from these sites became
the core of his dissertation research. E-mail: Jtorres@miaclab.org.
- Christian A. Trajano, History Department,
Public History. Interests: "Indio Meets Indio: The
Unique Interaction & Cohabitation of California Native
Americans and Fugitive Filipino Manila Galleon Slaves/Sailors,
1570's-1820's." 100 Years of Filipinos in Riverside
(Thesis) --- 400 Years of Filipinos in Southern California
(Dissertation). Documenting in the unwritten oral stories
concerning "Indiopinos," descendents of California
Native American Filipino "mix bloods." Specifically,
Central & Southern California tribes who so graciously
gave safety and sanctuary to desperate Filipino sailors/slaves
running away from the Spanish Missions (1769-1850), jumping
ship, running eastwards (towards the mountains) in the Spanish
& Mexican California Era. E-mail: pinoyriverside@hotmail.com
- Pedro " Pete" Vallejo (Navajo):
researching ways for teachers to recognize and work with
the culturally specific learning styles of Native American
students. Pedro is completing the Ph.D. in Education.
- Liz VonEssen: Liz is a graduate student in American Indian History and Public History at UC Riverside. She is currently working on a National Register Nomination on behalf of the Native American Land Conservancy (NALC) for a wilderness preserve and sacred site in the Old Woman Mountains. The preserve, along with several other wilderness areas and sacred sites, is threatened by the proposed expansion of the 29 Palms Marine Corps Base. For more information on the preserve and the NALC, please go to: http://nalc4all.org.
Ph.D. dissertations and Master's
theses completed
- Akers, Donna L.
1997 Living in the Land of Death: The Choctaw People,
1830-1860. Ph.D. dissertation, History
- Andrews, Scott David
2000 Red and White and Blue: Whiteness and Identity
in American Indian Fiction. Ph.D. dissertation, English
- Arkush, Brooke S.
1989 The Precontact and Postcontact Archaeology of the
Mono Basin Paiute: An Examination of Cultural Continuity
and Change. Ph.D. dissertation, Anthropology
- Carpenter, Roger M.
1999 The Renewed, the Destroyed, and the Remade: The
Three Thought Worlds of the Iroquois and the Huron, 1609-1650.
Ph.D. dissertation, History
- Cudel, Evelyne
1994 High Incidence of Diabetes in the O’Odham:
Community Approach in Prevention and Control for a Native
American Tribe. Ph.D. dissertation, Anthropology
- Davis, Charles Alan
1981 Newberry Cave: An Elko Magico-Religious Site in
San Bernardino County, California. M.A. thesis, Anthropology
- Dozier, Deborah
2000 Kumeyaay Basketry: Resource Management as an Economic
Strategy. Ph.D. dissertation, Anthropology
- Drover, Christopher Elvis
1979 The Late Prehistoric Human Ecology of the Northern
Mohave Sink San Bernardino County, California. Ph.D.
dissertation, Anthropology
- Ellis, Michael G.
1975 The Navajo: A Comparative Systems Study of Economic
Conflict. Ph.D. dissertation, Economics
- Gleason, Susan Marie
2001 In Search of the Intangible: Geophyte Use and Management
Along the Upper Klamath River Canyon. Ph.D. dissertation,
Anthropology
- Goodman, John David
1993 Spring Rancheria: Archaeological Investigations
of a Transient Cahuilla Village in Early Riverside, California.
M.S. thesis, Anthropology
- Gunther, Vanessa Ann
2001 Ambiguous Justice: Native Americans and the Legal
System in Southern California, 1848-1890. Ph.D. dissertation,
History
- Hall, Matthew C.
1983 Late Holocene Hunter-Gatherers and Volcanism in
the Long Valley-Mono Basin Region: Prehistoric Culture Change
in the Eastern Sierra Nevada. Ph.D. dissertation, Anthropology
- Hemmerdinger, Catherine Cooper
1983 The Historical and Cultural Meaning of Adam Clark
Vroman's Indian Photographs. M.A. thesis, History of
Art
- Hyer, Joel Ross
1999 We Are Not Savages: Native Americans in Southern
California and the Pala Reservation, 1840-1920. Ph.D.
dissertation, History
- Jenkins, Richard Charles
1982 A Study in Aboriginal Land Use: Southern Paiute
Subsistence in the Eastern Mojave Desert. M.S. thesis,
Earth Sciences
- Keller, Jean A.
2001 Student Health at Sherman Institute, 1902-1922.
Ph.D. dissertation, History
- Koerper, Henry Carl
1981 Prehistoric Subsistence and Settlement in the Newport
Bay Area and Environs, Orange County, California. Ph.D.
dissertation, Anthropology
- Lawlor, Elizabeth Jane
1995 Archaeological Site-Formation Processes Affecting
Plant Remains in the Mojave Desert. Ph.D. dissertation,
Anthropology
- Lynch, Sandra Lee
2002 Chasing Midas's Moccasins: The Business of American
Indian Art. Ph.D. dissertation, Anthropology
- Martz, Patricia Carol
1984 Social Dimensions of Chumash Mortuary Populations
in the Santa Monica Mountains Region. Ph.D. dissertation,
Anthropology
- McCarthy, Daniel Farley
1993 Prehistoric Land-Use at McCoy Spring: An Arid-Land
Oasis in Eastern Riverside County, California. M.S.
thesis, Anthropology
- McCoy, Robert Ross
2002 "Told It To Please Themselves”: Nez
Perce History Through the Eyes of the Other, 1805-1940.
Ph.D. dissertation, History
- McDonald, Alison Meg
1992 Indian Hill Rockshelter and Aboriginal Cultural
Adaptation in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southeastern
California. Ph.D. dissertation, Anthropology
- Minar, Cynthia Jill
1999 Impression Analysis of Cord-Marked Pottery, Learning
Theory, and the Origins of the Alachua. Ph.D. dissertation,
Anthropology
- Moon, Randall Brent
2000 The Return of the Native Repressed: Indian Presence
in Early American Literature. Ph.D. dissertation, English
- Muñoz, Neva Jeanne Harkins
1980 Political Middlemanship and the Double Bind: James
D. Savage and the Fresno River Reservation. Ph.D. dissertation,
Anthropology
- Oxendine, Joan
1983 The Luiseño Village During the Late Prehistoric
Era. Ph.D. dissertation, Anthropology
- Parr, Robert E.
1989 Archaeological Investigation of the Huntoon Pronghorn
Trap Complex, Mineral County, Nevada. M.S. thesis,
Anthropology
- Patterson, Karen Ann
2001 The Quest for Knowledge: Constructing Identities
Through Colonial Photographs of United States' Indians.
M.A. thesis, History of Art
- Payen, Louis Arthur
1982 The Pre-Clovis of North America: Temporal and Artifactual
Evidence. Ph.D. dissertation, Anthropology
- Pinto, Diana Gail
1985 The Archaeology of Mitchell Caverns. M.S.
thesis, Anthropology
- Prior, Christine Ann
1986 The Influence of Diagenetic Factors in the Amino
Acid Racemization Dating of Fossil Bone. Ph.D. dissertation,
Anthropology
- Quinn, Ronald Joseph
1977 The Modest Seduction: The Experience of Pioneer
Women on the Trans-Mississippi Frontier. Ph.D. dissertation,
History
- Reed, Leslie Dean
1971 A Geophysical Investigation of Ground-Water Supply,
Morongo Indian Reservation, Riverside County, California.
M.S. thesis, Earth Sciences
- Schneider, Joan
1987 Archaeological Investigations at Afton Canyon (CA-SBR-85)
Mojave Desert, San Bernardino County, California. M.S.
thesis, Anthropology
- Schneider, Joan S.
1993 Aboriginal Milling-Implement Quarries in Eastern
California and Western Arizona: A Behavioral Perspective.
Ph.D. dissertation, Anthropology
- Schroth, Adella Beverly
1994 The Pinto Point Controversy in the Western United
States. Ph.D. dissertation, Anthropology
- Soulé, Edwin Charles
1981 Agriculture, Aridity, and Salinity in the Prehistoric
Moapa Valley. Ph.D. dissertation, Anthropology
- Suchey, Judy Myers
1975 Biological Distance of Prehistoric Central California
Populations Derived From Non-Metric Traits of the Cranium.
Ph.D. dissertation, Anthropology
- Sutton, Mark Q.
1987 A Consideration of the Numic Spread. Ph.D.
dissertation, Anthropology
- Taskiran, Ayse Naside
2001 Flaked-Stone Technological Organization on the
Channel Islands, California. Ph.D. dissertation, Anthropology
- Weber, Michele Elizabeth
1996 Native Wisdom: Indigenous Identity and Community
Activism. Ph.D. dissertation, Political Science
- Wells, Helen Fairman
1983 Historic and Prehistoric Pinyon Exploitation in
the Grass Valley Region, Central Nevada: A Case Study in
Cultural Continuity and Change. Ph.D. dissertation,
Anthropology
- Wilke, Philip J.
1977 Late Prehistoric Human Ecology at Lake Cahuilla,
Coachella Valley, California. Ph.D. dissertation, Anthropology
- Wilkins, Doris A.
1970 Value Orientations of Indian Youth: A Factor in
Employment. M.A. thesis, Sociology
- Wilmoth, Stanley Clay
1987 The Development of Blackfeet Politics and Multiethnic
Categories, 1934-84. Ph.D. dissertation, Anthropology
- Yohe, Robert M.
1992 A Reevaluation of Western Great Basin Cultural
Chronology and Evidence for the Timing of the Introduction
of the Bow and Arrow to Eastern California Based on New
Excavations at the Rose Spring Site (CA-INY-372). Ph.D.
dissertation, Anthropology
- Zahrt, Elizabeth C.
1997 There's No Place Like Home : Reservation Institutions
and American Indian Migration, 1985-1990. Ph.D. dissertation,
Economics
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