Faculty
Chadwick Allen
Chadwick Allen (Ph.D. University of Arizona) is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Ethnic Studies Coordinator. His areas of interest are postcolonial literatures and theory; American Indian and New Zealand Maori literatures and cultures; and frontier studies and western literature. He has published articles on postcolonial theory, the discourse of treaties, and the construction of contemporary American Indian and Maori identities. His book is entitled Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts (Duke University Press, 2002).Visit Dr. Allen’s website at http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/allen559/
Christine Ballengee-Morris
Professor Christine Ballengee-Morris teaches students at The Ohio State University. She has published in journals including, Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, Journal of Multicultural and Cross-Cultural Research in Art Education, and Studies in Art Education. She has written for several anthologies published by the National Art Education Association and Phi Delta Kappa. She is the context co-chair of the National Art Education Association Research Task Force, vice-president of membership, and a member of the editorial board for the United States Society for Teaching through Art. She has presented papers at regional, national, and international conferences. Dr. Ballengee-Morris's teaching experiences include artist-in-residencies in the public schools, undergraduate and graduate level courses, and international teaching at the University of Sao Paulo, University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the University of Tasmania, Australia.
Mansel Blackford
Professor Blackford is a specialist in business history whose current work deals with the history of the business firm and its relationship to social and political changes occurring in Great Britain, the United States, and Japan. Author of The Politics of Business in California, 1890-1920 (1977); Pioneering a Modern Small Business: Wakefield Seafoods and the Alaskan Frontier (1979); A Portrait Cast in Steel: Buckeye International and Columbus, Ohio, 1881-1980 (1982); Business Enterprise in American History, co-authored with K. Austin Kerr (1986); The Rise of Modern Business in Great Britain, the United States and Japan (1988); Local Businesses: Exploring their History, co-authored with Amos Loveday and K. Austin Kerr (1990); A History of Small Business in America (1991); The Lost Dream: Businessmen and City Planning on the Pacific Coast (1993); BFGoodrich: Tradition and Transformation, 1870-1995 (1996), co-authored with K. Austin Kerr, and Fragile Paradise: The Impact of Tourism on Maui, 1959-2000 (2001). He has edited On Board the U.S.S. Mason: The World War II Diary of James A. Dunn (1996).
Katherine Borland
Katherine Borland, Associate Professor, studies and teaches about the artfulness of ordinary life, and the ways in which traditional expressive arenas constitute contested terrain. Her current research projects include a book length study of Nicaraguan festival performances, entitled The Naked Saint: Masquerade and Identity in Contemporary Nicaragua, a study that includes considerations of traditional cross-dressing, carnivalesque performances, miracle discourse, and pilgrimage within a changing political climate. In her teaching she works particularly with undergraduate students to test theory against practice and practice against theory in order to build a solid foundation for critical inquiry.
William Dancey
An archaeologist who is involved in the investigation of culture change during the Woodland Period of central Ohio, including the demise of the Hopewell Phenomenon, through regional and site specific analysis. Currently under analysis are collections from an Adena burial mound (Galbreath Mound), a Middle Woodland settlement (Murphy Site), a Late Woodland settlement (Water Plant), intensive surveys of select regions, and test excavations of numerous settlement localities. Dr. Dancey's research interests include testing of methods of recovering and analyzing regional scale archaeological data. He is also interested in researching internal settlement structure along with analytic approaches to measuring functional and social properties of settlements. Other interests include lithic production system analysis of chert tools and debitage in sedentary and mobile settlements in central Ohio.
Sandra Garner
Sande Garner is a graduate student and graduate teaching associate in The Department of Comparative Studies. Her research interests meet at the intersection of American Indian studies, cultural studies, religious studies, and folklore. Sande has worked extensively with the Newark Earthworks Initiative in a dual capacity. As a member of the ‘Moonrise committee’, she was involved in the organization and implementation of both the CIC-AIS (Consortium of Institutional Cooperation-American Indian Studies) Annual Fall Conference, titled “Native Knowledge Written on the Land” and the Newark Earthworks Day Symposium, a public event. Additionally, she has worked extensively with the oral history project, “Discovering the Stories of Native Ohio” which, in collaboration with the Native American Indian Center of Central Ohio (NAICCO), has to date collected over 40 interviews with American Indians at NAICCO’s Memorial Day and Labor Day powwows.
Lindsay Jones
Lindsay Jones has a broad interest in all aspects of the cross-cultural study of religion, with special concerns for sacred architecture and for the cultures and religions of Mesoamerica. He is editor in chief for the revised second edition of Mircea Eliade's Encyclopedia of Religion (Macmillan, 2005). He is also author of Twin City Tales: A Hermeneutical Reassessment of Tula and Chíchén Itzá (University Press of Colorado, 1995) and The Hermeneutics of Sacred Architecture:Experience, Interpretation, Comparison (Harvard University Press, 2000) two volumes; and co-editor with Davíd Carrasco and Scott Sessions of Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage:From Teotihuacan to the Aztecs (University Press of Colorado, 1999).
Lucy Murphy
Professor Murphy is the author of A Gathering of Rivers: Indians, Metis, and Mining in the Western Great Lakes, 1737 - 1832 (University of Nebraska Press, 2000). She is the co-editor of Midwestern Women: Work, Community, and Leadership at the Crossroads (Indiana University Press, 1997). Professor Murphy has also written articles on the history of women, Native Americans, and the western frontier.
Books
A Gathering of Rivers: Indians, Metis, and Mining in the Western Great Lakes, 1737 – 1832 University of Nebraska Press, 2000
Midwestern Women: Work, Community, and Leadership at the Crossroads, Lucy Eldersveld Murphy and Wendy Hamand Venet, eds., Indiana University Press, 1997
Daniel Reff
Daniel Reff is an anthropologist and ethnohistorian of colonial Latin America with a particular interest in European and Indian relations and Spanish missionary texts.
His first book, Disease, Depopulation, and Culture in Northwestern New Spain, 1518-1764 (University of Utah Press, 1991), explores the dynamics of Jesuit and Indian relations in what is today northern and the American southwest. He is co-author of a critical edition of Andrés de Ribas, History of the Triumphs of Our Holy Faith (1645) (University of Arizona Press, 1999).
Professor Reff is completing a comparative study of missionary texts from early medieval Europe and colonial Latin America . He is also currently preparing a critical, English-language edition of a manuscript in Portuguese from 1585 in which the author, Luis Fois, S.J., wrote at length about the differences in European and Japanese cultures
Michael Sherfy
Michael Sherfy is a Visiting Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University Newark campus where he teaches various courses in U.S. and Native American History. He completed his Ph.D. in American History from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign upon completion of his dissertation: Narrating Black Hawk: Indian Wars, Memory, and Midwestern Identity. He did his undergraduate work in History at Illinois State University and also holds a Masters degree in Library and Information Science from UIUC.
Richard Shiels
Richard D. Shiels; B.A., Hope College, 1968; M.A.R., Yale University, 1971; Ph.D., Boston University, 1976.
A faculty member at the Newark campus, Professor Shiels specializes in American religious history and is the author of articles on that topic. His present research focuses on religious revivals and the formation of voluntary religious societies in New England from 1760 to 1840. He was the recipient of The Ohio State University-Newark Teaching Excellence Award in 1977, 1985, and 1988.
Patricia Stuhr
Chair, Department of Art Education
Professor, Department of Art Education
Areas of Expertise:
Multicultural art education
Integrated curriculum
Contemporary Wisconsin Native American art/artists
Cultural studies/visual culture
Postmodern issues in art education
Professor Stuhr co-authored A POSTMODERN ART EDUCATION: AN APPROACH TO CURRICULUM and has published articles in journals including STUDIES IN ART EDUCATION, ART EDUCATION , the JOURNAL OF MULTICULTURAL AND CROSS-CULTURAL ART EDUCATION, the JOURNAL OF SOCIAL THEORY IN ART EDUCATION, and VISUAL ARTS RESEARCH. She serves on editorial and review boards of four journals. In autumn 1999, she received a Fulbright Award to teach and research at the University of Art & Design in Helsinki, Finland. The National Art Education Association named Professor Stuhr NAEA Distinguished Fellow for her significant contributions to the field in the area of multicultural/cross-cultural studies. She has also received the Ziegfled Award form the United States Society for Education through the Arts for her work in the areas of multicultural and cross-cultural research in art education.
Christine Warner
A classroom literature teacher, Christine D. Warner focuses her practice and current research on drama in education learning methodologies and interdisciplinary inquiry. Her teaching takes place in classrooms in both the middle school and university classrooms on a American Indian Reservation in Montana. Currently Christine is an Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University in the Integrated Teaching and Learning department and past research projects have included the nature of student and teacher engagement in drama as well as a co-researcher describing Native American learning styles of 5th grade middle school students on a Crow reservation.
Annmarie Amy Zaharlick
Amy Zaharlick is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Ohio State. She is a cultural and linguistic anthropologist who has conducted research with Native Americans in the US Southwest and with Southeast Asian refugees in the Midwest. Before coming to Ohio State, she served as director of the Native American Teacher Education Program and as Associate Director of the Multicultural Education Program at the University of Albuquerque in New Mexico. While at the University of Albuquerque, she developed and taught courses on Native American bilingual education,advocated for Native American bilingual education on the national,state, and locallevels, served as a consultant for Indian bilingual education programs,and helped tribes develop orthographies for their native languages. She continues to assist tribes and has published some of the results of her work in regional and national journals. Since coming to Ohio State, her work and publications have focused on Cambodian,
Laotian, and Vietnamese refugees in the areas of health and mental health. She teaches courses on American Indians, language and culture, and ethnographic research, among others. In 2000, she received a Masters in Social Work at Ohio State and has worked as a clinical social worker in mental health settings. Her latest research involves the effects of meditation on mental health disorders.
