Spring 2009: Event showcases UAA faculty research on Alaska Native Issues

Today, March 6, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
UAA/APU Consortium Library, Room 309

The UAA Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence and the UAA/APU Books of the Year project invite you to a showcase of UAA faculty research on Alaska Native issues today, March 6 from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. in Room 309 of the UAA/APU Consortium Library.

Presenters include:

• Dr. Phyllis Fast, Anthropology/Liberal Studies, "Alaska Native Perceptions of Statehood"
  
• Dr. Kerry Feldman, Anthropology , "IRS Tribal Recognition Status, Seward, Alaska Native People: Ethnohistory and Applied Anthropology"
  
• Dr. Diane Hirshberg, Institute for Social and Economic Research, "Education Policies and Alaska's Indigenous Peoples"
  
• Dr. D. Roy Mitchell IV, Anthropology, "Teaching Alaska Native Languages for Language Revitalization: What Works"
  
• Dr. George Charles, National Resource Center for American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Elders
  
• Jim LaBelle, Alaska Native Studies, "Lessening the Health Disparities among Alaska Native Elders"

Please bring your lunch and join UAA faculty as they share their research!

For information, contact aner@uaa.alaska.edu or call (907) 786-4605.