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AISP Director:

Susan Applegate Krouse (Anthropology) is Oklahoma Cherokee. Dr. Krouse received her Ph.D. in anthropology from University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University, and Adjunct Curator of Great Lakes Ethnology at the MSU Museum. She teaches courses on Native peoples, including North American Indian Ethnography, American Indian Women, Great Lakes Indians, and Contemporary Native Communities. Her research focuses on urban American Indians. Recent publications include a edited volume with Heather A. Howard, Keeping the Campfires Going: Native Women’s Activism in Urban Communities; “City Schools and Indian Activists: Protests in Two Urban American Indian Communities,” in Visions and Voices: American Indian Activism and the Sixties, edited by Kurt Peters and Anne Terry Straus; “The Well-Being of Urban Indian Elders in Rochester, New York” (2005 American Indian Culture and Research Journal), “What Came Out of the Takeovers: Women’s Activism and the Indian Community School of Milwaukee” (2003 American Indian Quarterly), “The Health of American Indians and Latinos in Lansing, Michigan” (2003 Julian Samora Research Institute Statistical Papers), and “Kinship and Identity: Mixed Bloods in Urban Indian Communities” (1999 American Indian Culture and Research Journal). She also has research interests in American Indian ethnohistory.  Her monograph, North American Indian in the Great War, looks at American Indian veterans from World War I, focusing on their efforts to acquire United States citizenship following their military service.

AISP FACULTY :

Anthropology

Lynne Goldstein <lynneg@msu.edu>

Robert Hitchcock <hitch16@msu.edu>

Susan Applegate Krouse <susan.krouse@ssc.msu.edu>

William Lovis <lovis@msu.edu>

Mindy Morgan <morgan37@msu.edu>

John Norder <norder@msu.edu>

Jodie O’Gorman <ogorman@msu.edu>

Alison Rautman <rautman@msu.edu>

College of Law

Matthew L.M. Fletcher <matthew.fletcher@law.msu.edu>

Wenona Singel <singel@law.msu.edu>

English

Bill Penn <penn@msu.edu>

Family and Child Ecology

LeAnne Silvey <silveyle@msu.edu>

History

Susan Sleeper-Smith <sleepers@msu.edu>

Linguistics and German, Slavic, Asian & African Languages

Helen Roy <royh@msu.edu>

Nursing

Denise Saint Arnault <saintarn@msu.edu>

Philosophy

Kyle Powys Whyte <kwhyte@msu.edu>

Religious Studies

Robert McKinley <mckinle5@msu.edu>

Residential College in the Arts & Humanities

Dylan Miner <dminer@msu.edu>

Christopher Scales <scalesch@msu.edu>

Writing, Rhetoric and American Culture

Phil Bellfy <bellfy@msu.edu>

Sheila Contreras <sheilac@msu.edu>

Ellen Cushman <cushmane@msu.edu>

Malea Powell <powell37@msu.edu>

Kimberly Lee <leekim@msu.edu>

School of Social Work

Suzanne Cross <suzanne.cross@ssc.msu.edu

Spanish and Portuguese

Rocio Quispe-Agnoli <quispeag@msu.edu>

Pre-Doctoral Fellow

Angela Parker

 

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