faculty profiles

Renya Ramirez

Associate Professor of American Studies

Email:renya@ucsc.edu

Tribal Affiliation: Enrolled Member of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska and White Earth Ojibwe

DEGREES :
B.A. Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley
M.A. Anthropology, Stanford University
Ph.D. Education, Stanford University

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Urban Native Americans, diaspora, transnationalism, Native feminisms, gender and cultural citizenship, and relationship between Native Americans and anthropology, and anti-racist education.

AWARDS:
Rockefeller Grant (2001-03)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS :
"Race, Gender, and Tribal Nation: A Native Feminist Approach to Belonging," Meridians Journal: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism (forthcoming).

Native Hubs: Culture, Community, and Belonging in Silicon Valley and Beyond, Duke University Press (2007)

"Native Americans, Cultural Citizenship, and Community Healing: Three Ethnographic Cases," Tom Biolsi (ed.) A Companion to the Anthropology of American Indians,Malden, Mass: Blackwell Publishing (2004)

"Healing, Violence, and Native American Women,"Social Justice, Vol.31, no. 4 (2004)
"Julia Sanchez's Story: An Indigenous Woman Between Nations,"Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 23, no. 2 (2002)

"Healing Through Grief: Urban Indians Re-imagining Culture and Community." Lobo, Susan, Peters, Kurt (eds.). American Indians and the Urban Experience. Tucson: Altamira Press (2001)

"Healing Through Grief: Urban Indians Re-imagining Culture and Community in San Jose, California," , Lobo, Susan, Peters, Kurt (eds).Journal of American Indian Culture and Research, Vol. 22, no. 4,Los Angeles: University of California at Los Angeles (1998)

Amy Lonetree

Assistant Professor of American Studies

Email:lonetree@ucsc.edu

Tribal Affiliation: Enrolled Citizen of the Ho- Chunk Nation

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DEGREES :
Ph.D. Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
M.A. Social Sciences, University of Chicago
M.A. History, Indiana University
B.A. History, University of Minnesota

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Indigenous History, Museum Studies, Memory and American History, Native American Cultural Production, Public History, and Ho-Chunk Tribal History.

AWARDS:
Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship for Academic Diversity, University of California, Berkeley, 2004-2006.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS :
Co-editor with Amanda J. Cobb, The National Museum of the American Indian: Critical Conversations (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming 2008)

Guest Editor, "Critical Engagements with the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian," a special issue of the American Indian Quarterly, Volume 30, No. 3 and 4, Summer/Fall 2006.

"Missed Opportunities: Reflections on the National Museum of the American Indian" in American Indian Quarterly, Volume 30, No. 3 and 4, Summer/Fall 2006, p. 632-645. Revised and expanded form of essay as "'Acknowledging the Truth of History': Missed Opportunities at the National Museum of the American Indian," in Amy Lonetree and Amanda J. Cobb, ed., The National Museum of the American Indian: Critical Conversations (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming 2008)

"Continuing Dialogues: Evolving Views of the National Museum of the American Indian", in The Public Historian, Invited Roundtable on the National Museum of the American Indian, Volume 28, No. 2, Spring 2006, p. 57-61.

"Transforming Lives by Reclaiming Memory: The Dakota Commemorative March of 2004," in Waziyatawin Angela Wilson, ed., In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors: The Dakota Commemorative Marches of the 21st Century (St. Paul, MN: Living Justice Press, 2006), 246-256.

Jean E. Fox Tree

Associate Professor of Psychology

Email:foxtree@ucsc.edu

DEGREES:
Ph.D. Psychology, Stanford University
M.Sc. Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh
A.B. Linguistics, Harvard University

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Cognitive Psychology, Psycholinguistics, Spontaneous Speech Production and Comprehension, Discourse Markers, Bilingualism, Prosody, Gestures

AWARDS:
Committee on Teaching grant for new course development, UCSC, 2006
Psi Chi Research Mentorship Award, UCSC, 2006
Golden Apple Teaching Award, UCSC, 1999

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Fox Tree, J. E. & Tomlinson, J. M., Jr. (2008). The Rise of Like in Spontaneous Quotations. Discourse Processes, 45, 85-102.

Fox Tree, J. E. (2007). Folk notions of um and uh, like, and you know. Text & Talk, 27-3, 297-314.

Fox Tree, J. E. (2006). Placing like in telling stories. Discourse Studies, 8(6), 749-770.

Fox Tree, J. E. & Weldon, M. S. (2007). Retelling urban legends. American Journal of

Psychology, 120(3), 459-476.

Clark, H. H., & Fox Tree, J. E. (2002) Using uh and um in spontaneous speaking. Cognition, 84, 73-111.

Fox Tree, J. E. (2001). Listeners’ uses of um and uh in speech comprehension. Memory and Cognition, 29(2), 320-326.

Fox Tree, J. E., & Schrock, J. C. (1999). Discourse markers in spontaneous speech: Oh what a difference an oh makes. Journal of Memory and Language, 40, 280-295.