Professor of Religion and Native
American Studies (1982)

Director, Division of Humanities (1994 – present)

Degrees: BA Hunter College 1970; MA, PhD Northwestern University 1971, 1977

Teaching Experience: Hobart and William Smith Colleges 1976-82

Teaching Specialties: American Indian religions, American religious history, American Indian studies

Research Interests: Traditional American Indian religions, American Indian Christianity, American music history

Publications: Where the Two Roads Meet (University of Notre Dame Press, 1999), The Paths of Kateri’s Kin (University of Notre Dame Press, 1997), On the Padres’ Trail (University of Notre Dame Press, 1996); Handbook of American Indian Religious Freedom, ed. (Crossroads, 1991), Religion in Native North America, ed. (University of Idaho Press, 1990), Iroquois Land Claims, co-editor and co-author (Syracuse University Press, 1988), Imagine Ourselves Richly (Harper Collins, 1988), The Study of American Indian Religions, editor (Crossroads, 1983), Traditional Ojibwa Religion and Its Historical Changes (American Philosophical Society, 1983), Belief and Worship in Native North America, editor (Syracuse University Press, 1981), American Indian Environments, co-editor (Syracuse University Press, 1980); editor, American Indian Quarterly, special issue on American Indian religions (1983); numerous articles in various publications, including Commonweal, Christian Century, Journal of Religion in Africa, American Indian Quarterly, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Temenos, Papers of the Society of Algonquianists

Distinctions: NEH Summer Fellow; Association of American Colleges Project QUILL; Canadian Studies Faculty Enrichment Grant; American Philosophical Society; Phillips Fund grant; W.K. Kellogg grant

International Affiliations and Experience: Nigeria, Mexico, Canada