Dr. Paula L. Wagoner's
Curriculum Vitae
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Criminal
Justice, and Social Work
Good Hall 410
Juniata College
Huntingdon, PA 16652
phone: (814) 641-3653
fax: (814) 641-369
email: wagonerp@juniata.edu
homepage: http://www.juniata.edu/~wagonerp
Table of Contents
| UNIVERSITY EMPLOYMENT: |
| 1998 |
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Juniata
College |
| 1997 |
Instructor of Anthropology, Juniata College
(tenure-track) |
| 1995-97 |
Instructor, Introduction to Sociology,
Oglala Lakota College, Martin and Kyle, SD, campus centers |
| Spr 1995 |
Editorial assistant, Unratified Treaty
Project; grant writer, American Indian Studies Research Institute. |
| Fall 1994 |
Associate Instructor, Indiana University |
| Sum. 1994 |
Editorial Assistant, Unratified Treaty
Project. |
| Spr. 1993 |
Associate Instructor, Indiana University |
| Fall 1992 |
Associate Instructor, Indiana University |
| 1991-92 |
Editorial Assistant, American Indian Studies
Research Institute |
| 1990-91 |
Research Assistant, History Department,
Smith College |
| PUBLICATIONS: |
| 1998 |
"An Unsettled Frontier: Land, Blood
& U. S. Federal Policy." In Property Relations,
C.M. Hann, ed. London: Cambridge University Press. pp. 124-141. |
| 1997 |
Ambivalent Identities: Land, Blood, and
U.S. Federal Indian Policy in Bennett County, South Dakota. Unpublished Dissertation.
Indiana University, Bloomington |
| 1997 |
"Surveying Justice: The Problematics of
Overlapping Jurisdictional Domains in Indian Country," in Droits et
cultures, vol 33:1, 21-52. |
| 1994 |
Ambivalent Identities: Processes of
Exclusion and Marginalization. MacArthur Scholar Working Paper Series, no. 25.
ISBN 1-881157-27X. Bloomington, IN: The Indiana Center on Global Change and World
Peace. |
| 1991 |
The U.S. Forest Service as an Institution
of Power. Unpublished Honors Thesis. Smith College. |
| BOOK
REVIEWS: |
| forthcoming |
Review of Handbook of North American
Indians, Vol. 12. The Plateau. 1999. Smithsonian Institution Press. |
| forthcoming |
Review of Boarding School Seasons, by
Brenda J. Child, for South Dakota History. |
| forthcoming |
Review of Barefoot on Crane Island: A
Fond Reminiscence of Lake Minnetonka in the 1920s, Marjorie Myers Douglas, for South
Dakota History. |
| forthcoming |
Review of Down from the Shimmering Sky:
Masks of the Northwest Coast, by Peter McNair, Robert Joseph, and Bruce Grenville, Journal
of the West. |
| forthcoming |
Review of Indians and Anthropologists:
Vine Deloria Jr. and the Critique of Anthropology, Thomas Biolsi and Larry Zimmerman,
eds., for Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute |
| forthcoming |
Review of Traditions of the Caddo, by
George A. Dorsey, for Journal of the West. |
| forthcoming |
Review of Some Things Are Not Forgotten:
A Pawnee Family Remembers, by Martha Royce Blaine, Journal of the Royal
Anthropological Institute |
| 1998 |
Review of Strong Hearts, Wounded Souls:
Native American Veterans of the Vietnam War, by Tom Holm, for American Ethnologist,
25:3 pp.550 - 51 |
| 1998 |
Review of Parading Through History: The
making of the Crow Nation in America, 1805-1935, by Frederick E. Hoxie, for Journal
of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 4:1, p.162 |
| 1997 |
Review of Prophecy and Power Among the
Dogrib Indians, by June Helm, 1996, for American Ethnologist. 24:943-4. |
| 1997 |
Review of Settling the Canadian-American
West, 1890-1915, by John W. Bennett and Seena B. Kohl, 1995, For South Dakota
History. 27:74. |
| 1997 |
Review of American Indian Persistence and
Resurgence, by Karl Kroeber, 1996, in American Ethnologist. 24:1, pp.
231-232. |
| 1997 |
Review of The Prairie Winnows Out Its
Own: The West River Country of South Dakota in the Years of Depression and Dust, by
Paula M. Nelson, 1996, in South Dakota History. 27:184-85. |
| 1997 |
Review of Women of the Earth Lodges:
Tribal Life on the Plains, by Virginia Bergman Peters, 1995, in Journal of the West.
36:123. |
| SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS: |
| 1997 |
Fulbright Group Travel Seminar
"Culture, Ecology, and Democracy in Costa Rica" June 15 - July 14, 1997 |
| 1994-95 |
National Science Foundation, Law and Social
Sciences Division. (dissertation fieldwork) |
| 1993-94 |
MacArthur Scholarship, Indiana Center on
Global Change and World Peace, Indiana University. |
| 1991-92 |
American Indian Studies Research Institute
Fellowship |
| 1991-94 |
Indiana University, Anthropology Department
Fee Scholarship |
| 1991 |
Smith College Alumnae Association
Scholarship |
| GRANTS: |
| 1999 |
Curriculum Development Funds, Juniata
College for development of an interdisciplinary (anthropology, environmental sciences,
biology, geology) remote field school to begin summer 2000. |
| 1999 |
Professional Development Funds, and
Provost's Discretionary Funds, Juniata College, for co-organizing a panel and presenting a
paper at Central States Anthropological Society, Chicago, IL |
| 1998 |
Professional Development Funds, Juniata
College, paper presentation (Ethnohistory, Minneapolis, MN.) |
| 1998 |
Curriculum Development Funds (course,
Constructing Race and Ethnicity) |
| 1998 |
Provost's Office, Juniata College,
Co-organizing symposium and presentation (Interpreting Cultures: Celebrating the 25th
Anniversary of the Publication of Clifford Geertz's The Interpretation of Cultures
and the 50th Anniversary of the IU Department of Anthropology) |
| 1997 |
Professional Development Funds, Juniata
College (attendance at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting,
Washington, DC.) |
| 1997 |
Professional Development Funds, Juniata
College (participation in the seminar, "Exhibitionary Moments: The Display and
Meaning of Native American Art," at The National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced
Study in the Visual Arts) |
| 1994 |
College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana
University (present paper, Invited Panel at the American Anthropological Association
annual meeting, Atlanta) |
| 1994 |
David C. Skomp Fund, Department of
Anthropology, Indiana University (present paper, Central States, St. Louis) |
| 1993 |
Phillips Fund Grant for Native American
Studies. American Philosophical Society. |
| 1993 |
David C. Skomp Fund, Department of
Anthropology, Indiana University. |
| 1989 |
Dana Grant -- Smith College |
| 1988-91 |
Smith College Grants |
| PAPERS PRESENTED: |
| 1999 |
"Pennsylvania Metis: Imagining
Community in the Middle Ground." Presented at the annual meeting of the Central
States Anthropological Society, Chicago IL, April 15 |
| 1998 |
"The Kind of Indians America Needs: A
Trickster’s Critique of Federal Indian Policy."Presented at the annual meeting
of the American Society for Ethnohistory,Minneapolis, MN. December 3. |
| 1998 |
"Coming Home to What? The Poetics of
Non-Meaning in Martin, South Dakota."Presented at a 1997 symposium honoring Clifford
Geertz. April. |
| 1997 |
"Costa Rica: A Cross Cultural Conflict
Role Play," Presented by co-author, Celia Cook-Huffman at PaCIE Conference. |
| 1997 |
"Snarled Identities: The Politics of
Entanglement in Lakota Country." INVITED SPEAKER. William L. Dunphey Endowment
for the Study of History. Native AmericanCommunities: Adaptation, Preservation, Renewal.
University of New Hampshire. April 25-26, 1997. |
| 1996 |
"A Homecoming in Indian Country."
American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Meeting. Portland,
OR. November. |
| 1995 |
"Surveying Justice: the Problematics of
Overlapping Jurisdictions in Indian Country." American Anthropological
Association. Washington, DC. November. |
| 1994 |
"Structured Ambivalence: Who's What in
Bennett County." INVITED SESSION,"Ethnicity and the Changing Values of
Ethnographic Knowledge in North America." American Anthropological Assn. Atlanta.
November. |
| 1994 |
"Ambivalent Identity: Kinship, Land,
and Federal Policy." The Indiana Center on Global Change and World Peace Conference,
"Old Patterns and New Realities: Global Change and World Peace Toward the Year
2000." Indiana University. |
| 1993 |
"Kinship, Land, and Federal Policy:
Ambivalent Identities." Central States Anthropological Society. Kansas City, MO.
April. |
| 1990 |
"The Medicine Wheel: Forest
Service/Native American Relations." Five College Undergraduate Anthropology
Colloquium, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. |
FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION
AND RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Specializations:
Anthropology of North America, colonialism; ethnohistory, contemporary U.S. rural
ethnography, anthropology of law, 19th and 20th century Great Plains.
Research interests:
Cultural pluralism; ethnicity; ethnohistory; legal systems; processes of colonialism; U.S
treaties with American Indian groups and related legal disputes; Fourth World peoples and
globalization, cultural connections to place.
LANGUAGES:
Good reading and fair speaking ability in Spanish
Limited reading and speaking ability in French and Lakota
PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIPS:
American Anthropological Association (AAA)
Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA)
American Society for Ethnohistory (ASE)
Law and Society Association (LSA)
Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA)
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA)
updated April 20, 1999
