David W. Dinwoodie Anthropology, University of New Mexico Spring 2021
Educational History
B.A. 1986 University of Montana
M.A. 1987 University of Chicago
Ph.D. 1996 University of Chicago
Dissertation: Reserve Memories: A Study of Historical Consciousness on the
Nemiah Valley Indian Reserve
Employment History
Assoc. Prof 2002- U. of New Mexico, Department of Anthropology
Assist. Prof. 1996-2002 U. of New Mexico, Department of Anthropology
Lecturer 1993-5 Indiana U., Department of Anthropology
Lecturer 1989 Native American Educational Services College
(co-taught The Navajo Language, with native
speakers)
Scholarly achievements
Books
Reserve Memories: The Power of the Past in a Chilcotin Community. Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press. 2002.
Peer reviewed articles in refereed journals or chapters in books
Dinwoodie, David W. Boas and the Young Intellectuals: Exploring the American Context
of Anthropology and Modern Life. In Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach, eds.,
Historicizing Theories, Identities, and Nations. Histories of Anthropology Annual,
Volume 11. Pp. 61-86. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2017.
Dinwoodie, David W. Anthropological Activism and Boas’s Pacific Northwest
Ethnology. In Regna Darnell, Michelle Hamilton, Robert L.A. Hancock, and Joshua
Smith, eds., The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 1: Franz Boas as Public Intellectual –
Theory, Ethnography, Activism. Pp. 215-235. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
2015.
David W. Dinwoodie “He Said He Would Show [the Tobacco] to M. Ogden”: Voice and
Historical Role in the Tsilhqut’in Fur Trade. In Sebastian Braun, ed., Transforming
Ethnohistories: Narrative, Meaning, and Community. Pp. 97-112. University of
Oklahoma Press. 2013.
David W. Dinwoodie “Ethnic Community in Early Tsilhqut’in Contact History.
Ethnohistory 57:4:651-78. 2010.
David W. Dinwoodie “The Canadian Anthropological Tradition and Land Claims.”
Histories of Anthropology Annual Volume 6:31-47. 2010.
David W. Dinwoodie “He Expects We Would Be Off from His Lands”: Reported
Speech-Events in Tsilhqu’tin Contact History. Anthropological Linguistics 49.1:1-26.
2007.
David W. Dinwoodie Time and the Individual. In Sergei A. Kan & Pauline Turner
Strong (eds.) New Perspectives on Native North America. Pp. 327-48. Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press. 2006.
David W. Dinwoodie William Morgan (1917-2001): Navajo Linguist. Anthropological
Linguistics 45.4:427-49. 2003.
David W. Dinwoodie. Textuality and the ‘Voices’ of Informants: The Case of Edward
Sapir’s 1929 Navajo Field School 41(2): 165-192. 1999.
David W. Dinwoodie. Authorizing Voices: Going Public in an Indigenous Language.
Cultural Anthropology 13(2): 193-223. 1998.
Douglas R. Parks, David W. Dinwoodie, and Raymond J. DeMallie. Introduction. In A
Retrospective of the Journal: Anthropological Linguistics, Selected Papers, 1959-1985.
Anthropological Linguistics 35:1-8.
David W. Dinwoodie. People and Animals, Lovers and Cannibals: Contingent Patterns
in Thompson Cosmology. Chicago Anthropology Exchange, 18. 1989.
Other writings
Dinwoodie, David W. Review of Wendy Wickwire, At the Bridge: James Teit and an
Anthropology of Belonging. Anthropologica 62(1) 216-7.
Dinwoodie, David W. Review of Raymond J. DeMallie, Douglas R. Parks, Robert
Vezina, eds., A Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri: The Journal and Description of Jean-
Baptiste Truteau, 1794-1796. Journal of Anthropological Research 75.2: 296-7. 2019.
Dinwoodie, David W. Aboriginal Political Subjectivities in the Columbia District, 1821-
46. In Roland Bohr, ed., Selected Papers of the 17th Rupert’s Land Colloquium, 18-21
May 2016, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Pp. 71-82. Winnipeg: Centre for Rupert’s Land Studies.
2016.
Dinwoodie, David W. Review of Herb S. Lewis’s, In Defense of Anthropology. Journal
of Anthropological Research Vol. 71, No.1: 125-7. 2015.
Dinwoodie, David W. Second British-Empire Scaling of Role-Relations Among Indians
and Traders, The Columbia District 1826-46. Selected Papers of the Rupert’s Land
Colloquium 2014, edited by Roland Bohr and Scott Stephen. Pp. 75-84. The Centre for
Rupert’s Land Studies at The University of Winnipeg. 2014.
David W. Dinwoodie Keith H. Basso (1940-2013). Journal of Anthropological Research
Vol. 69, No. 4:455-8. 2013.
David W. Dinwoodie 2013 Review of Tolly Bradford, Prophetic Identities: Indigenous
Missionaries on British Colonial Frontiers, 1850-75. Ethnohistory, Volume 60.2:322-4.
2013.
David W. Dinwoodie From Maritime Globalism to Territorial Nationality: The Dynamics
of the Colonial Geography of The Columbia District and Fort Chilcotin, 1826-46. Papers
of the 2012 Rupert’s Land Studies Colloquium, edited by Scott Stephen and Josephine
Sallis. Pp. 109-128. 2012.
Review of Jennifer S. H. Brown and Susan Elaine Gray, eds., A. Irving Hallowell
Contributions to Ojibwe Studies Essays, 1934-1972. American Indian Culture and
Research Journal Vol. 36.1:188-92. 2012.
David W. Dinwoodie McBean and Boucher: Pacific Northwest Metis and their Influence
on Tsilhqut’in Ethnicity 1830s-40s. Papers of the Rupert’s Land Colloquium, May 19-22,
2010, Winnipeg, Manitoba, compiled by David Malaher, edited by Anne Lindsay and
Jennifer Ching. Centre for Rupert’s Land Studies. Pp. 321-29. 2010.
Review of William J. Turkel, The Archive of Place: Unearthing the Pasts of the Chilcotin
Plateau. Journal of Regional Science 50.2:672-4. 2010.
Review of R.G. Matson and Martin P.R. Magne. Athapaskan Migrations: The
Archaeology of Eagle Lake, British Columbia. Journal of Anthropological Research
65.1:147-9. 2009.
Review of Alessandro Duranti (ed.), Companion to Linguistic Anthropology. Journal of
Anthropological Research 64.4:599-600. 2008.
David Dinwoodie Keith H. Basso: Regents Professor Retires. University of New Mexico
Anthropology Newsletter, Spring: 1. 2006.
Review of Andie Diane Palmer, Maps of Experience: The Anchoring of Land to Story in
Secwepemc Discourse. BC Studies. Number 152:115-7. 2006-7.
Review of Paul Nadasdy, Hunters and Bureaucrats: Power, Knowledge, and Aboriginal-
State Relations in the Southwest Yukon. The Western Historical Quarterly
XXXVI.2:229. 2005.
Review of Deborah House, Language Shift among the Navajos: Identity Politics and
Cultural Continuity. Anthropological Linguistics 46.4:483-484. 2004.
David W. Dinwoodie 2004 Key Narratives in the Fort Chilcotin Post Journal. Papers of
the Rupert’s Land Colloquium 2004: 449-61.
Review of John D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan, Represented Communities: Fiji and World
Decolonization. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 45(4):885-6. 2003.
Review of Lionel Youst and William R. Seaburg, Coquelle Thompson, Athabaskan
Witness: A Cultural Biography. Journal of Anthropological Research 59(4): 562-4. 2003.
Review of June Helm, The People of Denendeh: Ethnohistory of the Indians of Canada’s
Northwest Territories. Journal of Anthropological Research 59(2): 286-7. 2003.
Review of Rodney Frey in collaboration with the Shitsuíumsh, Landscape Travelled by
Coyote and Crane: The World of the Shitsuíumsh (Coeur díAlene Indians). Montana:
The Magazine of Western History 53(1):75. 2003.
Review of Russell Thornton (ed.), Studying Native America: Problems and Prospects.
Anthropology Quarterly 75.1: 229-232. 2002.
Review of Deward E. Walker, Jr. (ed.), Handbook of North American Indians 12,
Plateau. American Anthropologist Volume 102(4): 8-9. 2001.
Review of Julie Cruikshank, The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the
Yukon Territory. Journal of Anthropological Research 56(2):268-70. 2000.
Review of Ives Goddard (ed.), Handbook of North American Indians 17, Languages.
Journal of Anthropological Research 55(2): 311-3. 1999.
Review of Emanuel J. Drechsel, Mobilian Jargon: Linguistic and Sociohistorical Aspects
of a Native American Pidgin. Journal of Anthropological Research 54(4):576-7. 1998.
Review of Charles Briggs (ed.), Disorderly Discourse: Narrative, Conflict, and
Inequality. Journal of Anthropological Research 54(1):99-102. 1998.
Review of Collin Calloway, The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and
Diversity in Native American Communities and Mark Lindquist and Martin Zanger (eds.)
Buried Roots and Indestructible Seeds: The Survival of American Indian Life in Story,
History, and Spirit. American Ethnologist 24(4):944-5. 1997.
Review of Stanton E. F. Wortham, Acting Out Participant Examples in the Classroom.
Anthropological Linguistics 39(3):467-470. 1997.
Review of Twana Narratives: Native Historical Accounts of a Coast Salish Culture, by
William W. Elmendorff. The Journal of the Folklore Institute 33.1:79-82. 1996.
Fr. A.G. Morice. In Lexicon Grammaticorum. Max Niemeyer Verlag. 1996.
Works in progress
David W. Dinwoodie. Recognizing Aboriginal Perspectives in Land Claims Litigation.
Paper submitted to the Proceedings of the 2020 Rupert’s Land Colloquium. Centre for
Rupert’s Land Studies, University of Winnipeg. Submitted Oct 29 2020.
David W. Dinwoodie. Globalization and Ethnogenesis in the Columbia District: The Fort
Chilcotin Journal 1822-1840. First draft complete as of 11/15/2019. For submission to
McGill-Queens Press, Rupert’s Land Series. Series editor Jennifer Brown has indicated
interest by e-mail 11/18/2019, raised question of whether the fur trade built on earlier
trade patterns. Second draft is underway.
David W. Dinwoodie. The Plateau: Trends in Ethno-Cultural Research from the 1990s
(12,000 words). Handbook of North American Indians. Volume 1. Smithsonian. Text
accepted 3/25/18, Illustrations accepted August 2019. Expected date of publication 2021.
David W. Dinwoodie. The Columbia District 1821-1846: Recognizing the Colonial Phase
of Plateau Ethnohistory. Drafts of all chapters, Introduction remains to be written. For
submission to the University of Nebraska Press. Acquisitions editor Matthew Bokovoy
has indicated interest on multiple occasions.
Boasian Stances on Nationalism. Draft completed. To be submitted to a yet to be
determined journal, likely History of Anthropology Annual.
Santayana, Brooks, Bourne, and Boas's Culture Concept. Bérose Encyclopedia (invited
for Fall 2021). In process.
Invited or refereed abstracts and/or presentations at professional meetings
Exploring “Settler Colonialism”: The Depictions of Chief Charlo and Other Indians in
The Edgar Samuel Paxson Murals of Missoula County. Indiana at the Crossroads of
American Anthropology and History: Symposium in Honor of Raymond J. DeMallie,
September 15-16, 2017.
Theoretical Framing, Role-Inhabitance, and the Politics of Recognition in the Tsilhqut’in
Land Claims Case. In Executive Invited Session, Evidence, Accident, and Discovery in
Anthropological Expert Testimony. Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological
Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 16-20, 2016.
Aboriginal Political Subjectivities in the Columbia District, 1821-46. Paper presented at
the Rupert’s Land Colloquium, Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 18-21, 2016.
Plateau. Preliminary Version presented at, “Emerging Themes in Native North American
Research: Planning the Smithsonian Agenda for the 21st Century,” Dec 8-9, 2014.
Boas on Nationalism. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American
Anthropological Association, Washington D.C. 4 December 2014, in the General
Anthropology Division invited session, World War I, Sociopolitical
Escalation/Destabilization, and the Production of Anthropology, organized by Sergei Kan
and David W. Dinwoodie
History in Franz Boas’ Pacific Northwest Ethnography. Paper presented at the
conference, Franz Boas: Ethnographer, Theorist, Activist, Public Intellectual 2-5
December London, Ontario. 2010.
Infelicities Perform: The Languages of Land Claims in British Columbia. Paper presented
at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Atlanta, Georgia,
3 December 1994, in the invited session, Ethnicity and the Changing Value of
Ethnographic Knowledge in Native North America, organized with Jason Jackson.
Chilcotin Autobiographical Discourse. Paper presented in the session Narrative
Construction of Self in Culture Contexts: Formal-Functional Approaches, December 3
1998, organized by Stanton E. Wortham, University of Pennsylvania. Session Invited to
the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association by the Societies for
Psychology Anthropology and Linguistic Anthropology.
Contributed (unrefereed) abstracts and/or oral presentations at professional meetings
Recognizing Aboriginal Perspectives in Land Claims Litigation. In Nationalism as a
Colonial Process, organized by David W. Dinwoodie, 2020 Rupert’s Land Colloquium.
Centre for Rupert’s Land Studies, University of Winnipeg, Oct 15, 2020.
Recognizing Aboriginal Perspectives in Land Claims Litigation. In ‘Recognition’ and
Anthropology, organized by David W. Dinwoodie, 117th Annual Meetings of the
American Anthropological Association, San José, California, Nov 15-18, 2018.
Boasian Stances on Nationalism. In New Directions in the History of Anthropology,
organized by Richard Handler and Nicholas Barron, Annual Meetings of the American
Anthropological Association, Washington D.C. Nov. 29-Dec 3, 2018.
Aboriginal Political Subjectivities in the Columbia District, 1821-1846, paper presented
in the session, Toward a New Causality. Centre for Rupert’s Land Studies Colloquium
May 18-20 2016, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Semiotics of ‘Ethnohistory’ in the Greater Plateau of North America. In “Ethnohistories”
in the Making, organized by Nicholas Barron and David W. Dinwoodie, Annual
Meetings of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Nov 5-7 2015, Las Vegas, Nevada.
‘Historical Role’: Its Representation and Negotiation in the Fur Trade of the Columbia
District, 1826-46, in the Session, Building Socio-Commercial Relationships, 2014
Rupert’s Land Colloquium, Edmonton, Alberta, 14-17 May 2014
Boas, the Debates Over Nationality and Civil Religion in The Dial, 1918, and His View
of Ethnographic Groups. In Contextualizing Current Engagements: George W. Stocking
Session in the History of Anthropology, organized by David W. Dinwoodie and Sergei
Kan (Dartmouth), Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association,
November 20-24, 2013.
History of Anthropology, Boas, and the Problem of the Present. Paper presented in
Crossings From Past to Present: The Stocking Symposium in the History of
Anthropology, Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association,
November 13-18, 2012
Colonial Geography of the Columbia District and of Fort Chilcotin 1821-1846. Rupert’s
Land Studies Colloquium 2012 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. May 16-19, 2012.
Commentary for Kristaylin Shefveland, University of Southern Indiana, organizer,
Hearing Voices: Historiographical and Methodological Considerations. Annual Meetings
of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Pasedena, California, October 19-22 2011.
Boas, Civil Religion, and the History of Anthropology. Paper presented in the Stocking
Symposium at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, November 16-20, 2011.
Ethnicity Among the Pacific Northwest Metis at Fort Chilcotin in the 1830s. Paper
presented in the Session Ethnicity West of the Mountains at the Annual Meetings of the
American Society for Ethnohistory, 13-17 October, Ottawa, Ontario. 2010.
McBean and Boucher: The Cultural Influences of the Pacific Northwest Metis at Fort
Chilcotin, 1830s-40s. Paper presented in the Session Fur Traders’ Lives and Identities at
the 2010 Rupertsland Studies Colloquium. Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 20-22, 2010.
Boasian Depictions of Tsilhqut’in Catholicism. Paper presented in the George W.
Stocking Symposium in the History of Anthropology, session organized by Harriet Lyons
at the 108th Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, December 2-6 2009.
Land Claims and the Canadian Anthropological Tradition. Paper presented in the session
Contemporary Ethnography and the Influence of Histories of Anthropological
Representation, a session organized by Suzanne Oakdale and David W. Dinwoodie at the
Annual Meetings of the American Society for Ethnohistory, September 30-October 3,
New Orleans, Louisiana. 2009.
Ultramontanism vs. Kulturkampf: Transnational Currents in Tsilhqut’in Ethnography.
Paper presented in the Session, “Knowledge Production: Constructing Indigeneity, Past
and Present,” at the CASCA/AES Conference 2009, Vancouver, British Columbia, May
13-16.
Theorization of Groups in the Jesup North Expedition. Paper presented in the History of
Anthropology, a session organized by Andrew Lyons at the Annual Meetings of the
American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C., November 27-December 2,
2007.
Globalization and Tsilhqut’in Culture History. Paper delivered at the CASCA-AES
Meetings of May 2007, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, in the session,
Answering Coloniality, organized by Brian Noble and Michael Asch.
Speech Acts, Political Economy, and Ethnicity in Aboriginal History. Paper delivered at
the CASCA Meetings of 2006, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, in the session
Envisioning History, organized by Marc Pinkowski and Michael Asch.
Communication in the Dynamics of Chilcotin History. Paper presented in the session
contested Borders of Identity, Language, and Knowledge, organized by Melissa Rinehart.
American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Meeting Nov 16-20, 2005.
Introduction. Roundtable on Politics and Theory from the 1950s, session organized by
David Dinwoodie. American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Meeting, Nov 16-20,
2005.
Challenges to Expert Testimony in Canada. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual
Meetings, Santa Fe, Spring 2005.
The Ethnohistory of Chilcotin Communication. Paper presented in the session, Between
Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives, organized by David Dinwoodie, at the
Meetings of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Chicago, Illinois, October 25-30,
2004.
Key Narratives in the Chilcotin Post Journal. Paper presented in the session, The Fur
Trade Comes to the Columbia, at the Rupert’s Land Colloquium 2004, May 26-30, 2004,
Kenora, Ontario
Discourse and the Recontextualization of Environmental Practice. Paper presented in the
session Dynamics of Environmental Discourse at the 102 Annual Meetings of the
American Anthropological Association in Chicago, Illinois, November 19-23, 2003.
New Metaphors for Culture. Paper delivered at the Annual Meetings of the American
Society for Ethnohistory, London, Ontario, Canada, October 2000.
Commentary delivered for Fashioning a Native American Voice: Autobiography and
Cultural Consciousness. Organized by Michael Silverstein for the Annual Meetings of the
American Ethnological Society in Seattle, WA, 6-9 March 1997.
Narrative Practice and Value Production: Historical Consciousness on a Canadian
Reserve. Paper presented in the session Selves, Power, and History in Native North
America: Contemporary Papers in the Americanist Tradition in Honor of Raymond D.
Fogelson at the 95th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San
Francisco, California, November 20-24, 1996.
Commentary delivered for Culture of Language in the Native American Southeast.
Organized by Jason Baird Jackson for the Annual Meetings of the American
Anthropological Association in San Francisco, CA, November 20-24, 1996.
Pseudo-Time: Repairs, Pathologies, and Native Categories. Paper presented in the
session, Transculturalization and Transculturites, at the Annual Meeting of the American
Society for Ethnohistory, Portland, Oregon, November 7-11, 1996.
A Poetics of Delocution in Edward Sapir’s Navaho Texts. Paper presented in the session
Native American Discourse at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological
Association, Washington, D.C., November 15-19, 1995.
How Myths Die and Come to Life on the Threshold of Land Claims Settlement. Paper
presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory in Kalamazoo,
MI, 4 November 1995, in the session, Cultural Landscapes and Environmental Histories.
Placing Chilcotin History in Contemporary Life: Reconsidering the Semiotics of
Entitlement. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological
Association in Washington D.C., 20 November 1993, in the session The Semiotics of
Place, Space and Culture.
The Cowboy in Chilcotin History. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the
American Society for Ethnohistory, Bloomington, IN, 6 November 1993, in the session
Assimilation Ideologies and Historical Transformations.
Obviation and Textual Organization in a Chilcotin History Lesson. Presented at the
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco, 3
December 1992, in the Committee for American Indian Languages session, Genre and
Discourse.
The Heroic History of Kwi:s: Considering Wetsuwetíen Interpretations. Paper presented
at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Chicago, IL, 2
November 1989.
Sessions Organized at Professional Meetings
Nationalism as a Colonial Process, organized by David W. Dinwoodie, 2020 Rupert’s
Land Colloquium. Centre for Rupert’s Land Studies, University of Winnipeg, Oct 15,
2020.
‘Recognition’ and Anthropology. General Anthropology Division at the 117th Annual
Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San José, Nov 15-18, 2018.
Evidence, Accident, and Discovery in Anthropological Expert Testimony. Executive
Invited Session, American Anthropological Meetings 2016. Francesca Merlan, David
Trigger, Arthur J. Ray, Justin Richland.
“Ethnohistories” in the Making, organized by Nicholas Barron and David W. Dinwoodie.
Annual Meetings of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Las Vegas, Nevada,
November 5-7, 2015.
World War I, Sociopolitical Escalation/Destabilization, and the Production of
Anthropology, organized by Sergei Kan and David W. Dinwoodie. An Invited session of
the General Anthropology Division.
Contextualizing Current Engagements: George W. Stocking Session in the History of
Anthropology, with Sergei Kan (Dartmouth), Annual Meetings of the American
Anthropological Association, November 20-24, 2013.
Crossings From Past to Present: Stocking Symposium in the History of Anthropology in
Anthropological Practice, Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological
Association, November 14-19, 2012, San Francisco.
Reflexivity, Register, and the Ends of Ethnographic Analysis, session organized with
Kristen Adler and Olga Glinskii for the 108th Annual Meetings of the American
Anthropological Association, December 2-6 2009 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (reviewed
by the Society for Linguistic Anthropology).
Ethnicity and the Changing Value of Ethnographic Knowledge in Native North America,
organized with Jason Jackson, An Invited Session at the Annual Meetings of the
American Anthropological Association, Atlanta, Georgia, 3 December 1994.
Other Talks
Hist 200 History of Canada: Pre-Confederation, taught by Dr. Melanie Methot.
University of Alberta, Augustana Campus. I was invited to discuss my paper Ethnic
Community in Early Tsilhqu’tin Contact History, and my research with First Nations
more generally. Sept 24, 2020.
NAGPRA+25: Where Do We Stand, Where are We Going, Part 1: Presentation in
Roundtable organized by Kathleen Fine Dare and Kelly L. Jenks, Annual Meetings of the
American Anthropological Association Nov 18-22, 2015, Denver, Colorado.
Discussant: The Practice of Place: Explorations into the Phenomenology of Tradition –
Papers by former students of Keith H. Basso, organized by Jill Ahlberg Yohe. Annual
Meetings of the American Anthropological Association Nov 18-22, 2015, Denver,
Colorado.
Discussant. Engaging With Empire: Mapping Cosmopolitan Lives and Visions,
Organized by Nicholas Barron and Terri Casteneda. Annual Meetings of the American
Society for Ethnohistory, Nashville Tennesse, 2016.
Tsilhqut’in Ethnohistory in the Land Claims Context, Talk Given at the School for
Advanced Research, January 2006.
Textuality and Informant Voice in Edward Sapir’s Navaho Texts. Talk given at the
School of American Research, Fall 1996.
Linguistic Anthropology and Philosophical Pragmatism. Talk given to the Department of
Philosophy, University of New Mexico, Spring 1997.
The Man Who Gave It All Away and Other Cowboy Narratives of the Tsilhqutíin
Athabaskan People of British Columbia, Canada. Talk given for the Undergraduate
Student Association and the Maxwell Museum. Fall 1997.
Language and Material Culture on the Northwest Coast. Talk given for docents at the
Maxwell Museum. Spring 1997.
The Emerging Culture of Self-Study in First-Nations Canada and the Question of
Intellectual Property Rights. Talk given for the Departments of Anthropology and
Sociology of Williams College, March 1998.
Research Funding
New Mexico WRRI Student Water Research Grant 2018. Holly Brause. 2018.
Arts and Sciences Travel Fund 2010. David Dinwoodie.
Oblate Mission Records in the Analysis of Tsilhqut’in Ethnohistory. David Dinwoodie
Small Grant-in Aid, UNM RAC 2007
Land and Language in Chilcotin Ethnohistory (based on Hudson’s Bay Company
Records), David Dinwoodie Phillips Fund 2003, American Philosophical Society.
Salvage Study of Chilcotin Place Names, David Dinwoodie
RAC Grant 2000
Language of Place and Social Change in Native North America. David Dinwoodie
RAC Grant 1999
Chilcotin Place Naming Practices and Spatial Terminology.
David W. Dinwoodie
Melville and Elizabeth Jacobs Fund, Whatcom Museum, 1989.
Chilcotin Place Naming Practices, Spatial Terminology.
David W. Dinwoodie
Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Grant, 1990
Chilcotin Historical Narratives.
David W. Dinwoodie
Overseas Grant, Division of the Social Sciences. 1991.
Verbs of Saying in Chilcotin Historical Narratives.
David W. Dinwoodie
Phillips Fund, American Philosophical Society. 1992.
Awards
Teacher of the Year Award Nomination 2017
Presidential Teaching Fellow Nomination 2017
Snead-Wertheim Lectureship 2013: From Maritime Globalism to Territorial Nationality:
The Dynamics of the Colonial Geography of The Columbia District and Fort
Chilcotin, 1826-46
Teacher of the Year Award Nomination 2006 (Garth Bawden, Chair)
Teaching
Ph.D Advisement Anthropology
Graduates
2019 Ph.D. Kristin Fitzgerald
2015 Ph.D. Char Peery
2011 Ph.D. Kristen Adler
2006 Ph.D. Thomas McIlwraith
2003 Ph.D. Alan Vince
Advisor Member
Olga Glinskii
Muhammad Zubair Abro
Bret Salter
Cody Carlson
Holly Brause
Annie Theodoropoulos
Valerio DiFonzo
Grant Florian
Sarah Leiter
Blaire Topash Caldwell
Ph.D. Advisement Other Departments
Olga Zaytzeva Communications and Journalism 2012- Eurasianism and the
Theoretical Debates Surrounding Russian Nationalism
Michelle Kiser Linguistics 2013-4 Intonation in Navajo
Discourse
Carlos Ibarra Linguistics 2017-8 Mixtec in Oregon
M.A. Advisement Other Departments
Ljubica Kostevic Linguistics 2012-14 Metapragmatics and the
Politics of Language in Contemporary Native North America
MA Advisement:
Chris Mulvihill 2019-20
Julia Bilek 2017
David Linville 2017-9
Rebecca Prinster 2016-19
Justin Mountain, 2013 The Question of National Historiography in Historical
Archaeology
External Member, 2011-12 Jane Wellburn, University of Victoria
Bachelor’s honors advisement
Brenna Hale 2020
Margaret Daugherty, 2017-18 Presidential Tweeting Practices
Thomas Langley 2012-13 Bull Riding in New Mexico
Katy Lenté 2004-5 Language Biography at Isleta Pueblo
Stephanie Ford 2004 Summa cum laude, The Role of Ethnography in Cultural Resource
Management
Nicole Tami, 1998, Magna cum laude, The Structure, Function, and Ethos of Maasai
Marriage
El Centro De La Raza UG Research Fellowship
Cassidy Holland 2014-16
Classroom Teaching
Fall 2020
Anth 340/530 Global Trade
Anth 546 Theory I
Independent Studies
Anth 598 Hope Casareno California Indians
Anth 598 M. Abro Language and Nationalism in Pakistan
Anth 598 Bret Salter Specials Prep Powwow and Recognition
Spring 2020
Anth 310 Language and Culture Ling 359; C&J 319
Anth 498 Honors Seminar
Independent Studies
Anth 598 M. Abro Proposal Prep Language and Nationalism in Pakistan
Anth 598 G. Florian Proposal Prep
Anth 598 B. Salter Specials Prep Powwow and Recognition
Fall 2019 (Sabbatical)
Independent Studies
Anth 598 M. Zubair Language and Nationalism in Pakistan Specials Preparation
Spring 2019
Anth 310 Language and Culture Ling 359;C&J 319
Anth 530 Semiotics of ‘Ethnohistory’
Anth 598 M. Zubair Abro History of South Asian Anthropology
Fall 2018
Anth 130 Peoples of the World
Anth 546 Theory I
Independent Studies
Anth 698 M. Abro The Anthropology of South Asia, especially the relationship between
the work of Milton Singer and Bernard Cohn
Anth 698 N. Barron Native American Ethnogenesis and Anthropological Research,
namely, the 89th Wenner Gren Symposium
Spring 2018
Anth 310 Language and Culture Ling 359;C&J 359
Anth 530 Politics of Recognition
Independent Studies
Anth 497 Margaret A. Daugherty: Presidential Tweeting Practices
Anth 698 Nicholas Barron: Yaqui Ethnohistory
Anth 698 Grant Florian: New Social Movements
Fall 2017
Anth 546 Theory I
Anth 130 Peoples of the World
Independent Studies
597 M Zubair Abro: Politics of History in Pakistan (using Alyssa Ayers, Speaking Like a
State)
597 Politics of Recognition: Felicia Katz-Harris
Spring 2017
Anth 530 Discourse Methods
Anth 130 Peoples of the World
Independent Studies
Anth 697 M. Zubair Abro: Historical Consciousness
Anth 698 Grant Florian: Alternative Modernities
Fall 2016
Anth 310 Language and Culture
Anth 546 Theory I
Anth 498 Honors Seminar
Independent Studies
597 Valerio DiFonzo History of Neoliberal Thought
697 M. Zubair Abro Anthropology of Pakistan History
698 H. Brause Agriculture and Neoliberalism
698 G. Florian Alternative Modernities
Spring 2016
Anth 540 Colonialism, Nationalism, Settler Colonialism
Anth 510 Proseminar in Linguistic Anthropology
Fall 2015
Anth 546 Theory I
Anth 130 Peoples of the World
Spring 2015
Anth 310 Language and Culture
Anth 530 Semiotics of Discourse
Fall 2014
Anth 130 Peoples of the World
Anth 546 Theory I
Independent Study
698 Cominellio, Leigh North American Trading Posts and Trading Systems
Spring 2014
Anth 310; C&J 319: Ling 359
Anth 330 Principles of Cultural Anthropology
Fall 2013
Anth 546 Theory I
Anth 498 Honors Seminar
Independent Study
697 Olga Glinskii, Ukrainians in Canada
698 Olga Glinskii, Voice and Scale in Ritual Performance
Spring 2013
Anth 310, Ling 359, C&J 319 Language and Culture
Anth 130 Peoples of the World
Independent Study
Anth 497 Charles Langley, Honors Thesis on NM Rodeo
Anth 697 Olga Glinskii, Canadian Multiculturalism
Ljubica Kostevic, Anthropology of Discourse
Anth 698 Lara Gunderson Anthropology of Christianity
Anastasia Theodoropoulis Anthropology of Christianity
Fall 2012
Anth 530 Semiotics of “Ethnohistory”
Anth 330 Principles of Cultural Anthropology
Independent Study
Anth 698 061 Michael Grooms, Northern Athabaskan History and Ethnography
Anth 698 061 Lara Gunderson, Anthropology of Christianity
Spring 2012
Anth 510 Proseminar in Linguistic Anthropology
Anth 310; Ling 359; C&J 319 Language and Culture
Independent Study
Anth 698 061 Olga Glinskii, Ukrainians in Canada
Fall 2011
Anth 330 Principles of Cultural Anthropology
Anth 546 Theory 1
Spring 2011
Anth 330 Principles of Cultural Anthropology
Anth 510 Proseminar in Linguistic Anthropology
Independent Study
Anth 597 061 Ilse Biel Discourse and Culture in New Government Settlements in
Southern Mexico
Anth 697 061 Erin Tooher, Politics of Language in Guatemalan Education
Anth 698 061 Olga Glinskii. Ukrainian Language and Ethnicity in Contemporary
Canada
Fall 2010
Sabattical
Independent Study
Anth 697 Kelly Monteleone Pacific Northwest Ethnohistory and Culture (course will be
administered in Spring 2011)
Spring 2010
Anth 510 Proseminar in Linguistic Anthropology
Anthropology 310; Ling 359;C&J 319 Language and Culture
Independent Study (697): Erin Tooher: Linguistic Anthropology of Mayan Communities
Independent Study (697): Ilse Biel: Semiotics and Social Memory in Protest Movements
Independent Study (697): Anne Santos: Semiotics of the Environment in Brazil
Fall 2009
Anthropology 546: Theory I
Anthropology 530: Anthropology of Discourse
Independent Study Anth (497): Joshua Hromas: Mythology and Development
Independent Study (698) : Erin Tooher: Linguistic Anthropology of Guatemala
Spring 2009
Anthropology 510: Proseminar in Linguistic Anthropology
Anthropology 310; Ling 359;C&J 319 Language and Culture
Independent Study (697): Olga Glinskii: Linguistic Anthropology of Ukraine
Fall 2008
Anthropology 546 Theory 1
Anthropology 530; Religious Studies 547: Culture and Missionization
Independent Study 698: Semiotics of Performance, Marnie Watson
Spring 2008
Anthropology 510: Proseminar in Linguistic Anthropology
Anthropology 310; Ling 359;C&J 319 Language and Culture
Fall 2007
Anthropology 546: Theory I
Anthropology 530: Anthropology of Discourse
Spring 2007
Anthropology 510: Proseminar in Linguistic Anthropology
Anthropology 530: Anthropology of History
Fall 2006
Anthropology 310; Ling 359; C&J 319
Anthropology 330 Principles of Cultural Anthropology
Independent Study: (598) Kristen Adler, Language Ideology
Spring 2006
Anthropology 510 Proseminar in Linguistic Anthropology
Anthropology 530 Language, Ethnicity, and History
Fall 2005
Anthropology 310; Ling 359; C&J 319
Anthropology 330
Spring 2005
Anthropology 510 Proseminar in Linguistic Anthropology
Anthropology 530 Ethnography of Speaking of Native North America
Fall 2004
Anthropology 546 Theory I
Anthropology 310 Language and Culture
Independent Study (598): Zachary Mitchell, Ethnography of Speaking of Contemporary
Agriculture
Dissertation (699): Thomas McIlwraith
Spring 2004
Anthropology 510 Proseminar in Linguistic Anthropology
Anthropology 530 Anthropology of Discourse
Fall 2003
Anthropology 310 Language and Culture
Anthropology 330 Principles in Cultural Anthropology
Spring 2003 (sabbatical leave)
Fall 2002
Anthropology 510 Proseminar in Linguistic Anthropology
Anthropology 330 Principles of Cultural Anthropology
Spring 2002
Anthropology 510 Proseminar in Linguistic Anthropology
Fall 2001
Anthropology 310 (Ling 359, C&J 359): Language and Culture
Anthropology 340/530: Language and Nature
Spring 2001
Anthropology 510: Proseminar in Linguistic Anthropology
Anthropology 340/530: Ethnography of Speaking of Native North America
Independent Study: Theoretical Considerations in Linguistic Anthropology
Sarah Soliz (699)
Fall 2000
Anthropology 310 (Ling 359, C&J 359) Language and Culture
Anthropology 340/530 Language and Nature
Spring 2000
Anthropology 510: Proseminar in Linguistic Anthropology
Anthropology 530: Discourse Analysis
Fall 1999
Anthropology 310 (Ling 318, C&J 359): Language and culture
Anthropology 340/530: Language and Nature
Spring 1999
Anthropology 340/530: Ethnography of Speaking of Native North America
Anthropology 510: Proseminar in Linguistic Anthropology
Fall 1998
Anthropology 510: Pragmatics of Discourse (Discourse Analysis)
Anthropology 310 (Ling 318, C&J 359): Language and Culture
Independent Study: Medical Discourse
Jennifer Rioux (699)
Spring 1998
Anthropology 510: Proseminar in Linguistic Anthropology (co-taught with Basso)
Anthropology 310 (Ling 318, C&J 359): Language and Culture
Independent Studies:
Nicole Tami (Anth 497, 499) Kinship and the Semiotics of Cultural
Change
Jodi Power (Anth 399) Semiotics of Space
Fall 1997
Anthropology 510: Language and Political Economy
Anthropology 340: Poetics: The Language of Myth and Ritual
Independent Studies:
Clint Hicks (698) Theories of Narrative
Jennifer Rioux (698) Medical Discourse
Spring 1997
Anthropology 510: The Transformation of Local Speech Communities
Anthropology 130: Introduction to the Cultures of the World
Independent Study:
David Margolin (698) Language Shift and Historical Transformations
Fall 1996
Anthropology 340: Language and Time
Service
Editorships
Board of Editors Ethnohistory 2011-13
Book Rev. Com. Journal of Anthropological Research 2003-
Associate Editor Anthropological Linguistics 1996-1998
Assistant Editor Anthropological Linguistics 1993-1996
Committees
External Review Committee, Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta 2019-
20 (circulation of 600 page self study 12/19/2019, site visit Jan 26-30 2020). Chair UG
Program Review, with Dr. Adria LaViolette, Professor University of Virginia, Dr.
Florence Granlund, Vice-Provost and Professor, Department of Secondary Education,
University of Alberta.
Harington Fellowship Review Committee. Centre for Rupert’s Land Studies. University
of Winnipeg. 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
General Anthropology Division Selection Review Committee 2019
Executive Program Committee, American Anthropological Association 2015, 2016
General Anthropology Division Selection Review Committee 2015
Past-Convenor, History of Anthropology Interest Group, American Anthropological
Association, 2014-2015 (two year office assisting the Convenor)
General Anthropology Division Selection Review Committee 2014
Convenor, History of Anthropology Interest Group, American Anthropological
Association. 2011-13
2009-10 Robert F. Heizer Award Committee Chair, American Society for Ethnohistory.
2004-5 Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize Award Committee, American Society for
Ethnohistory.
1999 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Nominating Committee for President-Elect
and Executive Board Member-at-Large (for the American Anthropological Association)
(with Richard Bauman and Lourdes DeLeon)
Reviewing for Promotion
William and Mary as requested by Brad Weiss 6/01/2017
Cornell, tenure review as requested by Andrew C. Willford 9/21/09
Michigan State University, tenure review as requested by Robert K. Hitchcock, 5/15/08
UW-Madison Department of Anthropology, tenure review as requested by Kenneth
George, 12/1/04.
Indiana University Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, annual review, as
requested by Richard Bauman, 8/8/05
Reviewing for Journals
Journal of Anthropological Research (October 4, 1996)
Journal of Anthropological Research (December 2, 1997)
Journal of Anthropological Research (December 5, 1997)
Cultural Anthropology (February 2 1997)
Journal of Anthropological Research (February 19, 1997)
Cultural Anthropology (June 6, 1997)
Ethnos (January 1998)
American Ethnologist (July 24 1998)
American Anthropologist (August 26 1998)
Anthropological Linguistics (May 1999)
American Ethnologist (December 1999)
Cultural Anthropology (January 2000)
Journal of Anthropological Research (January 2002)
Anthropological Research (April 2002)
Journal of Anthropological Research (August 2002)
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (September 2003)
Ethnohistory (June 2004)
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (March 10 2005)
Ethnohistory (Nov 4 2005)
American Anthropologist (May 25 2005)
Journal of Anthropological Research (August 30 2006)
Anthropological Linguistics (September 8 2006)
Pragmatics (September 8 2006)
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (October 2006)
Anthropological Linguistics (June 2007, August 2007)
American Anthropology (October 2007)
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (October 2007)
Current Anthropology (November 2007)
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (October 2008)
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (May 2008)
Journal of Anthropological Research (May 2008)
Pragmatics (November 2009)
Anthropological Linguistics (January 2010)
American Anthropologist (February 2010)
Pragmatics (May 2010)
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (May 2010)
Journal of Anthropological Research (June 2010)
Anthropologica (June 2010)
Language and Communication (January 2011)
Wicaso Sa (March 2011)
Journal of Anthropological Research (August 2011)
Language and Communication (August 2011)
Language and Communication (May 2013)
American Anthropologist (September 2013)
Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory (December 2013)
Journal of Anthropological Research (January 2014)
American Ethnologist (January 15, 2015)
American Anthropologist (June 2015)
Anthropological Theory (December 2016)
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (Jan 2017)
PoLar: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (August 2019)
Journal of Anthropological Research (Feb 2020)
Cultural Anthropology (March 2020)
Cultural Anthropology (Sept 2020)
Anthropological Quarterly (Oct 2020)
Reviewing for Presses
Michigan State Press (December 2018)
University of Oklahoma Press (June 2018)
University of Pennsylvania Press (October 2017)
University of Toronto Press (October 2013)
University of Toronto Press (October 2011)
University of Nebraska Press (March 2011)
University of Oklahoma Press (March 2010)
University of Oklahoma Press (December 4 2006)
University of Nebraska Press, book manuscript (May 10 2005)
Reviewing for national funding organizations
National Science Foundation, November 23, 2010
National Science Foundation, October 30, 2009
National Science Foundation, October 14 2008
School for Advanced Research. Advanced Seminar Review Panel October 2016.
School for Advanced Research. Resident Scholar Review Panel December 2006-January
2007.
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Program on Global Security and
Sustainability. (February 27 1998)
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Program on Global Security and
Sustainability. (June 24 1998)
Testimony and Consultation
Chief Roger Williams et al vs. HMQ et al, Land Claim before the Supreme Court of
British Columbia, Canada, consultation on three expert statements (Jan 2006, June 2006,
August 2006)
Chief Roger Williams et al vs. HMQ et al, Land Claim before the Supreme Court of
British Columbia, Canada, expert testimony presented in support of Chief Roger William
(Jan 2005)
Chief Roger Williams et al vs. HMQ et al, Land Claim before the Supreme Court of
British Columbia, Canada, expert testimony presented in support of Chief Roger William
(Dec 2004)
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, testimony presented in support of Senate Bill 575
(June 2003)
Administrative Work in Department, College, University Committees
Convenor Ethnology Spring 2020
Annual Review Rhodes. Chair
Annual Review Shapero, Subfield Member.
Faculty Mentor: Shapero Spring 2020
Salary Review Committee Spring 2020
University Press Committee Fall 2018-
Chair Ethnology Search Committee 2018-19 (for Linguistic Anthropologist)
Chair Ethnology Search Committee 2017-18 (for Environmental Anthropologist)
Chair Ethnology Search Committee 2016-17 (for Visiting Lecturer)
Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee 2016
Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee 2015
Snead Wertheim Committee Member 2016
Snead Wertheim Committee Chair 2015
Graduate Advisor Ethnology Fall 2014-2019
Convenor Ethnology Fall 2011-3
Chair Ethnology Search Committee 2009-10
Arts and Sciences Human Subjects Institutional Review Board (IRB) (March 1998-
March 2007)
Member Mesoamerican Search Committee Fall 2006-Spring 2007
Instructional Resource Committee (2000-2008)
Comprehensive Exam Committee, Ethnology (1998-2004)
Advisor, Undergraduate Anthropology Society (2003-4)
Fieldwork:
Chilcotin First Nations
Nemiah Valley Reserve, British Columbia, Canada
May 2009
October 2007
July 2006
Aug 2005
May 2003
August 2000
May-June 1999
August 1998
October 1997
July 1996
October 1992
September - November 1991
September 1990 - March 1991
Toosey Reserve
July-August 1990
Williams Lake, British Columbia, Canada
July 1989
Blackfeet Reservation Community
Nizi Puhwasin, Blackfeet Immersion School, Browning, Montana
April 2003
Grazing History New Mexico
Preliminary Fieldwork, JX Natural Ranch, Tucumcari, New Mexico, July 2018