Dr. Dan Wildcat

Yuchi member of Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma

ACADEMIC DEGREES AND FELLOWSHIPS

B. A.    Sociology (w/Honors)    University of Kansas, 1978
M. A.   Sociology University of Kansas, 1986
Ph.D.   Interdisciplinary (P.A./SocSci.) University of Missouri at Kansas City (Spring 2006)
NEH Fellowship to participate in "Teaching American Indian History Seminar" at Newberry Library, Chicago, 1986.
NEH Fellowship to participate in the "Great Traditions in American Indian Thought" at University of California, Berkeley, 1987.
Mellon Doctoral Fellowship, American Indian College Fund (08/05 – 07/06).

PRESENT POSITIONS

 Professor of Sociology/American Indian Studies & Director of Haskell Environmental Research Studies (HERS) Center, Haskell Indian Nations University.  Also, adjunct faculty at Bloch School of Business and Public Administration, University of Missouri at Kansas City.

BOOKS

2006 (ed.w/Pavlik, S.)  Destroying Dogma: Vine Deloria’s Influence On American Society. Golden,   CO: Fulcrum Publishing Resources.

2001  (w/Deloria, V.)  Power and Place: Indian Education in America. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing           Resources.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

2005 (w/ B. Wakshul) A Native Perspective on Technology: An Interview with Daniel Wildcat.  Winds of             Change, 20 (3).      

2005  Preliminary Reflections on the Challenges of Rethinking Post-Colonial and Post-Socialist                  Realities.  The Anthropology of East Europe Review. Spring 2005.

2004  (with Sumi, I. and Deloria, V.) Commentary: a Response to Doug Jones.  American            Anthropologist,  106 (3):

2003  (w/ J. Anne Calhoon, et.al.)  Creating Meaningful Study Abroad Programs for American Indan Post-secondary Students. Journal of American Indian Education, 42 (1): 

2002  (w/Peroff, N.)  Who Is American Indian?  The Social Science Journal, 39 (3): 349-361.

2002  (w/Godfrey, G.)  Traveling 12 Time Zones: Students Forge Alliances with Ethnic Altai. Tribal College Journal, 14 (1).

2001  Haskell Indian Nations University: The Story of a Contested Terrain, in Embattled Lawrence: Conflict and Community (eds. Dennis Domer and B. Watkins). Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas.

2001  (w/Pierotti, R.)Being native to this place. Pages 3-16 In American  Indians in History, 1870-2000. Sterling Evans, ed. Greenwood Publishing, Westport, CT.

2000  Pierotti, R. and D.Wildcat.. Traditional ecological knowledge: the third alternative. Ecological Applications 10:1333-1340.           

2000  Wildcat, D. and R. Pierotti. Finding the indigenous in indigenous studies. Indigenous Nations Studies Journal 1:61-70.

1999  Pierotti, R. and D. Wildcat.  Traditional knowledge, culturally based worldviews and Western science. Pp 192-199 in Cultural and Spiritual Values of Biodiversity. D. Posey, ed. U.N. Environment Program Intermediate Technology Publications, London.

1999 Wildcat, D.R.  Bridging Technology with Culture. Winds of Change, 14 (3): 6.

1999  Pierotti, R. and D.R. Wildcat.  The connectedness of predators and prey: Native American attitudes and fisheries management. Fisheries 24: 22-23.

1999  Pierotti, R. and D. Wildcat.  Traditional ecological knowledge: synthesizing rationalism and belief.  Pp 36-46 in Conference proceedings: Bridging traditional ecological knowledge and ecosystem science. Northern Arizona University Press.

1998  Wildcat, D.R. and W.M. Griswold. Tribal Approaches to Brownfield, Redevelopment Issues. Proceedings of the 1998 Conference on Hazardous Waste Research.  Great Plains and Rocky Mountains Hazardous Substance Research Center, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

1997  Pierotti, R. and D. Wildcat.  The Science of Ecology and Native American Tradition. Winds of Change 12 (4): 94-97.

1997  Pierotti, R. and D. Wildcat.  Native Tradition, Evolution and Creation. Winds of Change 12:70-73.

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

2003-2006  Senior Teaching Faculty in Open Society Institute’s Higher Education Support Program (southern Eastern Europe): “Post-Colonial and Post-Socialist Contexts in Social Science Writing and Teaching .”

2003-2005  Principle Investigator for “Shifting Borders of Race and Identity: A Research and Teaching Project on the Native American and African American Experience," a two-year project supported by the Ford Foundation

2000-2003 US Department of Agriculture Scientific Cooperative Exchange Program, Assessing the impact of traditional grazing techniques on drinking water quality: A cooperative program between Haskell Indian Nations University and Gorno-Altaisk State University, Russia. Dan Wildcat (HINU) and Nikolai Malkov (GASU), Principle Investigator. 

1999 US Agency for International Development, Partnering with Higher Education for International Development, A Community based drinking water assessment- a cooperation between Gorno-Altaisk State University and Haskell Indian Nations University. 

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