CURRICULUM VITAE

PAULA L. WAGONER, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Anthropology
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Criminal Justice, and Social Work
Good Hall 208
Juniata College
Huntingdon, PA 16652
Voicemail: 814-641-3653
Email: wagonerp@juniata.edu
Fax: 814-641-3695
Webpage: http://faculty.juniata.edu/wagonerp

EDUCATION

Ph.D. 1997

Indiana University, Bloomington (Anthropology)

M.A. 1995

Indiana University, Bloomington (Anthropology)

A.B. 1991

Smith College, (cum laude with high departmental honors in Anthropology)

A.A. 1988

Sheridan College (Modern Languages)

UNIVERSITY EMPLOYMENT
9/2003 Associate Professor of Anthropology (tenured), Juniata College

1/98-9/03

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Juniata College (tenure-track)

8/1997

Instructor of Anthropology, Juniata College (dissertation completed 12/97)

1995-97

Instructor of Sociology, Oglala Lakota College, Martin & Kyle centers

1995

Editorial Assistant & grant writer, American Indian Studies Research Institute

1992-94

Associate Instructor, Indiana University

1991-92

Editorial Assistant, American Indian Studies Research Institute, IU

1990-91

Research Assistant (Dr. Neal Salisbury) History Dept., Smith College

PUBLICATIONS

2002

"They Treated Us Just Like Indians": The Worlds of Bennett County, South Dakota. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Series in the Anthropology of North American Indians.

1999

Interpreting Cultures: A Symposium. Paula L. Wagoner and Mindy J. Morgan, eds. Indiana University Department of Anthropology

1998

"An Unsettled Frontier: Land, Blood, and U.S. Federal Policy." In Property Relations, Renewing the Anthropological Tradition, C.M. Hann, ed. London: Cambridge University Press

1997

Ambivalent Identities: Land, Blood, and U.S. Federal Indian Policy in Bennett County, South Dakota. Dissertation. Indiana University

1997

"Surveying Justice: The Problematics of Overlapping Jurisdictional Domains in Indian Country," in Droits et cultures, 33:1, pp. 21-52

1994

Ambivalent Identities: Processes of Exclusion and Marginalization. MacArthur Scholar Working Paper Series, no. 25. Bloomington: The Indiana Center on Global Change and World Peace.

1991

The U.S. Forest Service as an Institution of Power. Honors Thesis. Smith College

PAPERS and PRESENTATIONS
May 2007 "Nation, State, and Nation: Regional discourses and the politics of abortion and impeachment on Pine Ridge reservation." American Ethnological Society/Canadian Anthropological Assn. Toronto, Canada
Jan. 2007 Bookend Seminar, Juniata College
Nov. 2005 “Race, Culture, and the Language of Science: old concepts made new again,” American Anthropological Association 104th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
April 2003 Presentation of film and prospective sabbatical research at the Umatilla Chemical Weapons Depot, Pendleton, OR, during Fall 2003. For Peace and Conflict Students and Facuilty
Nov. 2002 "Hanging on for Dear Life: Time, Blood Quantum, and Culture," American Anthropological Association, 101st Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA
March 2002 Invited Speaker. "Beyond Curtis' Lens: American Indians 1910 - 1930." Southern Allegheny Museum of Art, Altoona, PA
Nov. 2001 "European Surnames and the Politics of Allotment on Pine Ridge Reservation." American Anthropological Association 100th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

Oct. 2000

"Words and Deeds: Treaty negotiations and foregone conclusions during the Dawes Act Era on Pine Ridge." American Society for Ethnohistory, London, Ontario, Canada

Oct. 2000

Invited speaker. " The Problematics of Teaching at a Reservation College." The Five Colleges Native American Indian Studies Curriculum Committee, Amherst, MA

Oct. 2000

Invited speaker. Informal presentation on teaching in a reservation context and discussion with students on the Native American floor, UMASS Amherst

April 2000

"Blending Identities and Building Community: Mixedblood Identities in Pennsylvania." Peace Studies Association and Consortium on Peace, Education, and Development joint meeting, Austin, TX

Nov. 1999

The Métis Nation of the United States: Imagining Community in the Middle Ground." AAA annual meeting, Chicago

Apr. 1999

"The Métis Nation of the United States: Imagining Community in the Middle Ground." CSAS annual meeting, Chicago

Oct. 1998

"The Kind of Indian America Needs: A Trickster's Critique of Federal Indian Policy." American Society for Ethnohistory, Minneapolis

Apr. 1998

"Coming Home to What? The Poetics of Non-Meaning in Martin, South Dakota." Symposium honoring Clifford Geertz, Indiana University

Apr. 1997

"Costa Rica: A Cross Cultural Conflict Role Play." Presented by co-author Celia Cook-Huffman at PaCIE Conference, Philadelphia

Apr. 1997

"Snarled Identities: The Politics of Entanglement in Lakota Country." (Invited speaker) William L. Dunphey Endowment for the Study of History. "Native American Communities: Adaptation, Preservation, Renewal. University of New Hampshire.

Oct. 1996

"A Homecoming in Indian Country." American Society for Ethnohistory annual meeting. Portland.

Nov. 1995

"Surveying Justice: The Problematics of Overlapping Jurisdictions in Indian Country." AAA annual meeting, Washington, DC

Nov. 1995

"Structured Ambivalence: Who's What in Bennett County." AAA annual meeting, Atlanta

May 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

Apr. 1993

"Kinship, Land, and Federal Policy: Ambivalent Identities." CSAS annual meeting, Kansas City, MO

Apr. 1990

"The Medicine Wheel: Forest Service/Native American Relations." Five College Undergraduate Anthropology Colloquium, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

SYMPOSIA AND PANELS ORGANIZED
May 2007 "Rethinking the Rural: Regional Studies and American Indian and First nations communities" (Chair) American Ethnological Society/Canadian Anthropological Society, Toronto Canada.
Nov. 2005 “Blood Measures: Past Verities and Present Uncertainties of Racial Definition in North America,” American Anthropological Association 104th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Co-Chair
Nov. 2002 "Revisiting the Boasian Paradigm for North American Anthropology." AAA 101st Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. Wagoner: Organizer; Carolyn Anderson: Chair
Nov. 2001 "Contemporary Native American Identity, Enrollment, and Tribal Membership," American Anthropological Association 100th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. Thomas Johnson: Organizer; Wagoner: Chair

Nov. 1999

"Space, Sacred Places and Collective Memory." AAA annual meeting, Chicago. (Invited Session) Co-organizer: Carolyn Anderson

Apr. 1999

"Space, Sacred Places and Collective Memory." Central States Anthopological Society annual meeting, Chicago. Co-organizer: Carolyn Anderson

Apr. 1999

Arranged Will Judy Lectureship, Juniata College. Invited speaker: Dr. George Ritzer. Topic: "The McDonaldization of Society"

Apr. 1998

"Interpreting Cultures: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Publication of Clifford Geertz's The Interpretation of Cultures and the 50th Anniversary of Indiana University's Department of Anthropology." Indiana University. Co-organizer: Mindy Morgan

Nov. 1995

"Jurisdictions." AAA annual meeting, Washington, DC. Co-organizer: Carol Greenhouse

DISCUSSANT

1999

"Gender, Development, and Peace: Making Connections," a panel in the conference, "Women and Peace: War, Resistance and Justice," The Baker Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, Juniata College

1995

"Intersections: Exploring the Local Implications of Global Changes." 1994-95 MacArthur Scholars Conference, panel on access to resources and the environment. Indiana University

1993

"Changing Environments: How Vulnerable Are We?" panel on water issues in China and the U.S., Indiana University School of Law

BOOK REVIEWS
forthcoming Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian, Michael E. Harkin and David Rich Lewis, eds, 2007. In Great Plains Research.
forthcoming Not Without Our Consent: Lakota resistance to Termination, 1950-59, by Edward Charles Valandra, foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr. 2006. In American Indian Culture and Research Journal. UCLA.
forthcoming Being Lakota: Identity and Tradition on Pine Ridge Reservation, by Larissa Petrillo. 2007. In Great Plains Research.
2007 Hostiles? The Lakota Ghost Dance and Buffalo Bill's Wild West, by Sam A. Maddra. 2006. In South Dakota History 37:1, p. 84
2003 Anti-Indianism in Modern America, by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn. University of Illinois Press. 2001.

2003

 Turtle Lung Woman's Granddaughter, by Delphine Red Shirt and Lone Woman, University of Nebraska Press. 200 .and Woman Walking Ahead, by Eileen Pollack, University of New Mexico Press. 2002. Montana Historical Review.
2000 Playing Indian, by Philip J. Deloria. Yale University Press. 1998. South Dakota History 30:2, pp 224-25

2000

 Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 12—The Plateau, Deward E. Walker, Jr, volume ed. Ethnohistory 47:3, pp 825-26  

1999

 Boarding School Seasons, by Brenda J. Child. South Dakota History 29:4, pp 337-38  

2000

 Down from the Shimmering Sky: Masks of the Northwest Coast, by Peter McNair, Robert Joseph, and Bruce Grenville. Journal of the American West 39:2, p. 87  

1999

 Barefoot on Crane Island: A Fond Remembrance of Lake Minnetonka in the 1920s, Marjorie Myers Douglas. South Dakota History 29:3, 254-255  

1999

Indians and Anthropologists: Vine Deloria and the Critique of Anthropology, Thomas Biolsi and Larry Zimmerman, eds. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 5:1, 131

1999

Traditions of the Caddo, George A. Dorsey. Journal of the West 38:4, p. 106

1998

Strong Hearts, Wounded Souls: Native American Veterans of the Vietnam War, Tom Holm. American Ethnologist 25:3, 550-51

1999

Some Things Are Not Forgotten: A Pawnee Family Remembers, Martha Royce Blaine. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 5:1, 132

1998

Parading Through History: The Making of the Crow Nation, Frederick E. Hoxie. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 4:1, 162

1997

Prophecy and Power Among the Dogrib Indians, June Helm. American Ethnologist 24:943-34

1997

Settling the Canadian-American West, 1890-1915, John W. Bennett and Seena B. Kohl. South Dakota History 27:74

1997

American Indian Persistence and Resurgence, Karl Kroeber. American Ethnologist 24:1, 231-32

1997

The Prairie Winnows Out Its Own: The West River Country of South Dakota in the Years of Depression and Dust, Paula M. Nelson. South Dakota History 27:184-85

1997

Women of the Earth Lodges: Tribal Life on the Plains, Virginia Bergman Peters. Journal of the West 36:123

AWARDS AND HONORS
2003 Distinguished Alumna Award, Sheridan College

1993

Lieber Associate Instructor Award for Outstanding Teaching. Indiana University

1991

Samuel Bowles Prize, Smith College, for the best thesis on an anthropological subject ("The U.S. Forest Service as an Institution of Power").

1991

First Group Scholar, Smith College

1988-91

Dean's List, Smith College

1988

Phi Theta Kappa, Sheridan College

SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS

1997

Fulbright Group Travel Seminar, "Culture, Ecology, and Democracy in Costa Rica"

1994-95

National Science Foundation, Law and Social Sciences Division, Ph.D. dissertation fieldwork

1993-94

MacArthur Scholarship, Indiana Center on Global Change and World Peace, Indiana University

1991-92

American Indian Studies Research Institute Fellowship, Indiana University

1991-94

Indiana University, Department of Anthropology Fee Scholarship

1991

Smith College Alumnae Association Scholarship

GRANTS

May 2003 Baker Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, for sabbatical research in eastern Oregon on community attitudes on the disposal of liquid sarin, VX, VG, and mustard gas.
May 2003 Professional Development Funds, Juniata, for sabbatical research in eastern Oregon
Nov. 2002 Professional Development Funds, Juniata, for organizing panel and presenting paper at the AAA 101st Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA
Nov. 2001 Professional Development Funds, Juniata, for chairing panel and presenting paper at the AAA 100th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC

July 2001

Professional Development Funds for one month of field and archival research in South Dakota and Missouri.

Oct. 2000

Professional Development Funds, Juniata. For presenting a paper at the Ethnohistory Annual Meeting in London, Ontario, Canada.

May 2000

Peace and Conflict Program funding for presenting paper at PSA and COPRED

Nov. 1999

Peace and Conflict Studies stipend to develop a new Anthropology of War and Peace course for the PACS curriculum

Oct. 1999

Professional Development Funds, Juniata. For co-organizing panel and presenting paper at AAA Annual Meeting, Chicago

Apr. 1999

Professional Development Funds, Juniata. For co-organizing panel and presenting paper at CSAS Annual Meeting, Chicago

Oct. 1998

Professional Development Funds. Juniata. For presentation of paper at Ethnohistory Annual Meeting, Minneapolis

May 1998

Curriculum Development Funds. Juniata. For 3 weeks in Washington to develop course on Race and Ethnicity for the Cultural Analysis Curriculum

Apr. 1998

Office of the Provost. Juniata. For co-organizing and presenting paper at "Interpreting Cultures," a symposium honoring Clifford Geertz at Indiana University

Nov. 1997

Professional Development Funds. For attendance at AAA, Washington, DC

Oct. 1997

Professional Development Funds. For participation in the "Exhibitionary Moments: The Display and Meaning of Native American Art," at The National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. Washington, DC

Nov. 1994

College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University. Travel grant for paper presentation (Invited Panel) at AAA Annual Meeting, Atlanta

Apr. 1994

David C. Scomp Fund, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University. Travel grant to present paper at CSAS Annual Meeting, Kansas City, MO

1993

Philips Fund Grant for Native American Studies, American Philosophical Society. For pre-dissertation fieldwork.

1993

David C. Scomp Fund, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University. For pre-dissertation fieldwork

1989

Dana Foundation Grant, Smith College. For unpaid archaeological internship at the Bighorn National Forest, Sheridan, WY

1988-91

Smith College. Tuition grants

WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
Achievement, Equity and Retention, Dr. Craig Nelson, Juniata, Sept. 2006
 "Islam and Politics," Dr. Sikandar Hayat, Faculty Seminar Spring 2006
 Digital Media Workshop, Juniata College, May 2005
Communication a Message to the Media, AAA meeting, Washington, DC, Nov. 2001
Teaching for Civic Engagement, Paul Rogat Loeb, Juniata, Jan. 2003
Fulbright Scholar's Program Faculty Grant Seminar, Penn State, April 2003

OF COURSES DESIGNED AND TAUGHT:

Remote Field Course

Juniata College:
 Introduction to Anthropology
Introduction to Human Prehistory and Archaeology
Cultures of the World
Cultural Analysis I (General Education)
Constructing Race and Ethnicity (Cultural Analysis II course)
History of Anthropological Thought
Interdisciplinary Remote Field School, Four Corners area
Anthropology of War and Peace
American Indians
Doing Ethnography
Modern Ethnography
Oglala Lakota College:
 Introduction to Sociology
Indiana University:
 Introduction to Anthropology

PEER REVIEWER
American Ethnologist
Law and Social Inquiry (Journal of the American Bar Association)

ACADEMIC SERVICE
 Academic Judicial Board, 1999 
Trustee Committee, Faculty Representative on Education and Student Life 1999-2001
Student Academic Development Committee 2000-2003
Peace and Conflict Advisory Committee 1998- 2003
Ad Hoc Committee on Cultural Analysis Curriculum (report to Curriculum Committee) 1999
Culture Bound (Anthropology Club), Advisor
Currents of the Juniata Steering Committee 2001-2003
J. Omar Good Professor of Religion Search Committee 2003
Retention Committee 2003 - 
Academic Planning and Assessment Committee 2005 and currently
Chair, APAC, 2005-06
Enrollment Management Committee 2006-
Enrollment and Retention Subcommittee 2006-

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION
 Anthropology of North America; colonialism; ethnicity; ethnohistory; rural/urban conflict; legal anthropology; 19th and 20th century Great Plains

RESEARCH INTERESTS
 Cultural pluralism; ethnicity; processes of colonialism; contemporary rural ethnography; 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)
Central States Anthropological Society (CSAS)
Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA)
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA)

Updated July, 2007