Judy Kertész
kertesz@sfsu.edu
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~lumbee/

Education

M.A. Ethnic Studies San Francisco State University (expected Spring 2000)
B.A. History/German Literature Georgia State University Spring 1993 (Magna Cum Laude)

Honors, Awards, Fellowships

California State Predoctoral Fellowship, SFSU, Fall 1999
California State Predoctoral Summer Intern Fellowship, SFSU, Summer 2000

M.A. Thesis

Lumbee Tribal Formation, 1650-1885: An Interpretive Analysis (forthcoming, Spring 2000)

Today, The Lumbee Indians of Robeson County, North Carolina define themselves in a socio-political, legal, and cultural sense as a “tribe.” This has not always been the case. There is a powerful historical and cultural context within which Native Americans operate, much of it imposed. For Indians of the eastern seaboard, the longstanding confrontation and association with European- and African-Americans has produced relations that are substantially different from those confronting most of American Indian tribes west of the Mississippi River. For the Lumbee Indians of Robeson County, North Carolina, this long association has also produced a history that intersects white and black America at many points. The history of Lumbee tribal formation necessarily runs counter to the dominant historical narrative of culturally unitary groups with their territories. This paper seeks to redefine conventional notions of tribal formation through an analysis of landscape and the attendant significance of ‘home-place,’ its interconnectedness with elaborate tribal kinship networks, historical experience, and socio-political, cultural, and religious interactions with ‘outsiders’ that has led up to the Lumbee sense of “tribe.”

Committee Members:
Angela Gonzales, Chair, American Indian Studies, SFSU
M. Annette Jaimes-Guerrero, Women’s Studies, SFSU
Nancy Mirabal, La Raza Studies, SFSU


Teaching Experience

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of American Indian Studies, SFSU, for the following:

AIS 110: Critical Thinking and the American Indian Perspective, SFSU, Fall 1999
Students study the process by which they learn to develop and support their beliefs with clear, unambiguous arguments and moreover, evaluate the strength of arguments that are not their own. A technology-enhanced course, students are required to access and assess online course readings and assignments, thereby being rewarded with a wider variety of learning skills that should serve them well throughout their college career, as well as becoming knowledgeable about some of the highly complex, and controversial issues confronting American Indians today.

AIS 310: American Indian Religion and Philosophy, SFSU, Fall 1999
A multidisciplinary exploration of the nature, structure, and meaning of ritual acts, language, landscape, and symbols in the religious and spiritual life of indigenous peoples in the Americas. A cultural-historical method was used in conjunction with a comparative-thematic approach. Job duties included research in preparation for straightforward and technology-enhanced lectures, grading 5-10 page papers, quizzes and exams.

AIS 150: American Indian History in the United States, SFSU, Spring 1999
A technology-enhanced general historical overview of various indigenous cultures residing in the present U.S with analyses of specific regional groups, structures, and world views and the major events that took place between Native North Americans and immigrants from Europe and Africa from contact up to 1930.

AIS 235: American Indians and Issues in the Mass Media, SFSU, Fall 1998
Intensive, topical examination of the images and perceptions of American Indians in the mass media focusing on film, advertising, and popular literature. Attendant to such analyses is how media has determined American Indian cultural identity through historical and regional perspectives, and how non-Indian America sees itself through seeing Indians, all in the effort to develop student’s active critical thinking skills in reading, writing, watching and listening.

AIS 470: American Indian Ethnicity and Identity, SFSU, Fall 1998
The study of ethnicity focusing on Native American tribal and pan-Indian identities in theoretical and historical context, requiring a critical analysis of issues surrounding the formation of an ethnic identity within the nation-state, and both reservation and urban contexts.

Guest Lecturer, Department of American Indian Studies, SFSU, for the following:
AIS 460: Power and Politics in American Indian History, Spring 1999
Exploration of modern political and social issues arising from U.S.-American Indian relations in the past as they confront American Indian communities at present. Includes land, water, civil, and tribal rights, Federal and State Indian Policies, and the State and Federal Recognition Process that affects more than 200 Non-recognized American tribes, the US Courts, local, city, and county governments, and the Nation-State, with the underlying historical and attitudinal differences behind these problems.

Other Relevant Teaching Experience

English Language Teacher, Kagoshima Prefecture Board of Education, Japanese Ministry of Education, Kagoshima, Japan, 1993-96
Taught English language and literature concurrently at two academically prestigious high schools. Responsible for creating and implementing syllabi, teaching, grading homework, exams, and papers.

BBC English School (Private Language Institute), Kagoshima, Japan, 1993-96
Taught English language and literature at this private academy. Responsible for creating and implementing course syllabi, teaching, grading of exams and papers.

Kagoshima Prefecture Cross-Cultural Exchange Workshop Organizer, Kagoshima Prefecture Board of Education, Japanese Ministry of Education, Kagoshima, Japan, Summers 1994-96
Developed and organized intensive language workshops for Japanese English High School language teachers.

Publications

Co-author, “Gender, Status and Power in Native North America.” In Gender Stratification: Social Construction and Structural Accounts, Dana Vannoy (Roxbury Press, forthcoming 2000).

Co-author/Researcher/Graphics, maps, images, “Sounds of Faith: A Multimedia Political, Religious, and Musical History of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina,” CD-Rom and Website: http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~lumbee/

Research Experience

Research Assistant, Dr. Anita Silvers, Department of Philosophy, SFSU, 1997-present
Conduct archival and web-based research.

Presentations

“American Indian Identity Matters: (Re) Inventing Tribal Boundaries,” invited commentary, American Philosophical Association, Boston, MA, December 1999.

"Using Technology to Enhance the Delivery and Content of American Indian Studies Courses," non-juried paper presentation, Ninth Annual Conference of American Indian Alaska Native Professors, Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence, KS, May 1999.

“Sacred Land and American Indian Identity in the work of Vine Deloria, Jr.,” invited commentary, Special Symposium on the Philosophy of Vine Deloria Jr., Seventy-third Annual Meeting, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Berkeley, CA, April 1999.

Languages

German, Japanese

Campus Activities

Co-Organizer, Red Power: 30 Years of American Indian Activism in the Bay Area, SFSU, Fall 1999 http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~hopi/respower
Duties and responsibilities included but were not limited to enlisting panelist participation, fund-raising, creating the symposium web site, writing an introductory history on American Indian Activism for the program.

Co-Organizer, Forum on Proposition 5: The California Tribal Gaming Initiative, SFSU, October 1998
Informative debate intended to highlight the opposing positions of California’s controversial Tribal Gaming Initiative. Duties included fund-raising, enlisting panelist participation of California Indian gaming tribal leaders, state government representatives, labor union representatives, and educators.

Founder, American Indian Graduate Resource Group, SFSU, fall 1998-present
Recognizing the need for a stronger American Indian student presence in the university, the group was formed to encourage faculty and American Indian student interaction, mentorship, and future scholarship, as well as sponsor events and forums dealing with issues vital to the Bay Area American Indian community.