JoEllen Anderson

JoEllen Anderson holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University.  She has taught at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and University of California, Berkeley.  Her research and teaching interests include history of Native Americans in California, history of American Indians in the Southwest, Indigenous politics, gender in literature & film, and American Indian education.  JoEllen grew up on the Ft. Peck Indian Reservation in Montana and is an enrolled member of the Montana Little Shell Chippewa Tribe.  She worked as Tribal Historian of her tribe & contributed to “The Whole Country was…’One Robe,’” Nicholas C.P. Vrooman, a history of her tribe. Her publications include “Cowboys & Indians, the Perceptions of Western Films Among American Indians and Anglos,” and “Ft. Peck Indian Reservation.”

Past Course(s):

NATIVEAM 105/205: Native American Women, Gender, Status & Literature

NATIVEAM 114: Comparative History of Racial & Ethnic Groups in California

NATIVEAM 117S: History of Native Americans in California