Home
About Us
Video Views
Speech Categories
Speaker List
Request Form
Local Events
In the News
Promoting Events
FAQs
Donations
Links
Feedback
Contact Us
|
Speakers By Name
Theda Perdue, Ph.D.
Professor Perdue's research focuses on the Native peoples of the southeastern United States and on gender in Native societies.
Her book, Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835 (1998) won the Julia Cherry Spruill award for the best book in southern women's history and the James Mooney Prize for the best book in the anthropology of the South.
More recently, she has edited an anthology, Sifters: The Lives of Native American Women (2001), for which she wrote an essay "Catherine Brown: Cherokee Convert to Christianity," as well as the introduction. In conjunction with Professor Michael Green, she has published The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Southeast (2001). Professor Perdue has just complete her term as president of the American Society for Ethnohistory.
Speech Topics:
· Who is an Indian: Native Americans in North Carolina
· American Indian Women
Links:
· http://www.unc.edu/depts/history/faculty/perdue.html
TOP
|
|
