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As of July 2008, the current website address for the CIC American Indian Studies Consortium is https://www.msu.edu/~cicaisc/.

About this Program

Archive

Current Issues:

CIC AIS launches new website!

Fall 2008 Workshop Instructor: Call for Applicants

New CIC AIS Program Description Beginning on June 30, 2008,  Michigan State University to administer the consortium

View presentation by Prof. Ned Blackhawk, University of Wisconsin-Madison, on the CIC American Indian Studies Consortium.
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Events, Programs and Projects

Spring 2008 Conference:
Date: April 3-5, 2008
Host: Purdue University
Conference details and Call for Proposals available here.

Call for Proposals:
Junior Faculty Publication Workshop -
Essays or Book Chapters on Ethnicity and the Arts

Sponsored by The Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts (CESA), University of Iowa, for junior tenure-track faculty working on books and articles

November 1-3, 2007
Submission Deadline:  Sept. 21, 2007

Fall 2007 Symposium:

"Indigenous Past and Present"
First Annual Symposium: Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives
Date: September 24, 2007
Location: Newberry Library
Program, registration and hotel information

Fall 2007 Workshop:

"Indian Education 1920-2007: The Establishment and Implementation of
Indian Control of Indian Education"
Instructor: Professor John Tippeconnic of Penn State University
Date: September 27-29, 2007
Location: Newberry Library

Winter-Spring 2008 Grad Student Seminar:

"The Indigenous, the State, and Internal Colonialism in a Transnational Context"
Instructor: Professor Jacki Rand
Application materials due: November 2, 2007

Seminar dates:
January 18-19
February 8-9
February 29-March 1
March 14-15
April 4-5
Winter-Spring 2008 Student Seminar Application

Faculty Announcements:

Congratulations to Prof. Phoebe Farris (Purdue) and Prof. Patricia Stuhr (Ohio State), winners of this year's AIS Fund for Innovative Projects (Faculty Seed Money Grant) award.

Prof. Farris and Prof. Stuhr will team-teach a class at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Indians during the university's "Maymesters." For more details on the course, please contact either instructor (Prof. Farris: phoebe@purdue.edu - Prof. Stuhr: stuhr.1@osu.edu)

Graduate Student Announcements:

Graduate Student Fellows:
Lisa Blee, University of Minnesota
Matthew Bradley, Indiana University
Miranda Brady, Penn State University
Miranda Johnson, University of Chicago
Megan McCullen, Michigan State University

Fall 2007 CIC AIS Graduate Student Assistantship
Awarded to C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa (Michigan State) for his dissertation, "A Seneca Sachem in the Indian Bureau; Ely S. Parker and the Nature of Authority in Indian Affairs."

Program Information

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AIS Graduate Student Site

Links to Campus AIS Programs

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Successes

Scholarship fostered through this collaborative effort will transform the field of American Indian studies by emphasizing research in primary sources, the centrality of Indian voices, engagement with multiple narratives, interdisciplinary perspectives, and the dynamics of intercultural relations.

Photos from AIS Consortium Fall Conference 2003

Photos from AIS Consortium Conference Jan. 24-25, 2003