University of Chicago, Ph.D. in Anthropology (1988), A.M. in Anthropology (1984).
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, B.A. with Honors in International Studies and English (1980).
Ethnohistory, cultural theory, politics and power, religious movements, environment and landscape, ethnopsychology, history of anthropology.
Northwest Coast (Heiltsuk, Nuu-chah-nulth), Southeast (The Lost Colony), Wyoming (public lands ethnohistory), France.
Sergei Kan (Dartmouth College), me, and Claude Levi-Strauss at Northwest Coast Ethnology Conference, College de France, Paris, June 2000
Marie Mauze (College de France) and me at Marie's house in Casaneuve, in the Luberon Valley, August 2001
Books:
Harkin, Michael E. and David Rich Lewis, eds., in press, Perspectives on the Ecological Indian: Native Americans and the Environment. University of Nebraska Press.
Harkin, Michael E., ed., 2004, Reassessing Revitalization Movements: Perspectives from North America and The Pacific Islands, foreword by Anthony F.C. Wallace. University of Nebraska Press.
Mauzé, Marie, Michael E. Harkin, and Sergei Kan, eds., 2004, Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions, foreword by Claude Lévi-Strauss. University of Nebraska Press.
Harkin, Michael E., 1997, The Heiltsuks: Dialogues of History and Culture on the Northwest Coast, University of Nebraska Press, Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians. Bison Books paper edition in 2000.
Journal Articles:
Harkin, Michael E., in press, Northwest Coast Sacred Places (Acta Americana)
Harkin, Michael E., 2005, Object Lessons: The Question of Cultural Property in the Age of Repatriation (Journal de la Société des Américanistes 91(2):9-29).
Harkin, Michael E., 2003, Staged Encounters: Indians and Tourism (Ethnohistory 50:573-583).
Harkin, Michael E., 2003, Feeling and Thinking in Memory and Forgetting: Towards an Ethnohistory of the Emotions (Ethnohistory 50:261-284).
Kornfeld, Marcel, Michael Harkin, and Jonathan Durr, 2001, Landscapes and Peopling of the Americas. In On Being First: Cultural Innovation and Environmental Consequences of First Peopling, Proceedings of the 31st Annual Chacmool Conference, Jason Gillespie, Susan Tupakka, and Christy de Mille, eds., pp. 149-162.
Harkin, Michael E., 2000, Sacred Place, Scarred Space (Wicazo Sa Review 15(1):49-70).
Harkin, Michael E., 1998, Whales, Chiefs, and Giants: An exploration into Nuu-chah-nulth Political Thought (Ethnology 37:317-32).
Harkin, Michael E., 1996, Engendering Discipline: Discourse and Counter-Discourse in the Methodist-Heiltsuk Dialogue (Ethnohistory 43:643-62).
Harkin, Michael E. and Sergei A. Kan, 1996, Introduction: American Indian Women's Responses to Christianity (Ethnohistory 43:563-72).
Harkin, Michael E., 1996, Past Presence: Conceptions of History in Northwest Coast Studies (Arctic Anthropology 33(2):1-15).
Harkin, Michael E., 1996, Carnival and Authority: Heiltsuk Schemata of Power in Ritual Discourse, (Ethos 24:281-313).
Harkin, Michael E., 1995, Modernist Anthropology and Tourism of the Authentic (Annals of Tourism Research 32:650-70).
Harkin, Michael E., 1994, Contested Bodies: Affliction and Power in Heiltsuk History and Culture (American Ethnologist 20:586-605).
Harkin, Michael E., 1993, Power and Progress: The Evangelical Dialogue among the Heiltsuk (Ethnohistory 40:1-33).
Harkin, Michael E., 1990, Mortuary Practices and the Category of Person among the Heiltsuk (Arctic Anthropology 27(1):87-108).
Harkin, Michael E., 1988, History, Narrative, and Temporality: Examples from the Northwest Coast (Ethnohistory 35:99-130).
Book Chapters:
Harkin, Michael E., in press, Performance and Paradox: Narrativity and the Lost Colony of Roanoke. In Myth and Memory: Rethinking Stories of Indigenous-European Contact, edited by John Lutz. University of British Columbia Press.
Harkin, Michael E., in press, Swallowing Wealth: Northwest Coast Beliefs and the Ecological Practices. In Perspectives on the Ecological Indian: Native Americans and the Environment. University of Nebraska Press.
Harkin, Michael E. and David Rich Lewis, in press, Introduction. Perspectives on the Ecological Indian: Native Americans and the Environment. University of Nebraska Press.
Harkin, Michael E., in press, Lévi-Strauss and History. In The Cambridge Companion to Claude Lévi-Strauss, edited by Boris Wiseman. Cambridge University Press.
Harkin, Michael E., 2006, ‘I’m an Old Cow Hand on the Banks of the Seine’: Representations of Indians and Le Far West in Parisian Commercial Culture. In New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories and Representations, edited by Sergei Kan and Pauline Turner Strong, pp. 815-846. University of Nebraska Press.
Harkin, Michael E., 2005, The House of Longing: Missionary-led Changes in Heiltsuk Domestic Forms and Structures. In Indigenous Peoples and Religious Change, edited by Peggy Brock, pp. 205-226. Brill.
Harkin, Michael E., 2004, Lévi-Strauss en Amérique : L’ « indigénisation» du Structuralisme. In Claude Lévi-Strauss edited by Michel Izard, pp. 373-382. Éditions de l’Herne.
Harkin, Michael E., 2004, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Landscape. In Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions, pp. 385-406. University of Nebraska Press.
Harkin, Michael E., Marie Mauzé, and Sergei A. Kan, 2004, Introduction. In Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions, pp. xi-xxxviii. University of Nebraska Press.
Harkin, Michael E., 2004, Revitalization as Catharsis: The Warm House Cult of Western Oregon. In Reassessing Revitalization Movements: Perspectives from North America and The Pacific Islands, pp. 143-161. University of Nebraska Press.
Harkin, Michael E., 2004, Introduction. In Reassessing Revitalization Movements: Perspectives from North America and The Pacific Islands, pp. xv-xxxvi.
Harkin, Michael E., 2002, (Dis)pleasures of the Text: Boasian Anthropology on the Northwest Coast. In Gateways: Exploring the Legacy of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1897-1902, edited by Igor Krupnik and William Fitzhugh. Contributions to Circumpolar Anthropology, v. 1. Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution, pp. 93-106.
Harkin, Michael E., 2001, Ethnographic Deep Play: Boas, McIlwraith, and Fictive Adoption on the Northwest Coast. In Strangers to Relatives: The Adoption and Naming of Anthropologists in Native North America edited by Sergei Kan, pp. 57-79. University of Nebraska Press.
Harkin, Michael E., 1997, A Tradition of Invention: Modern Ceremonialism on the Northwest Coast. Present is Past: Some Uses of Tradition among Native Societies in North America and New Zealand, edited by Marie Mauzé, University Press of America, pp. 97-112.
Harkin, Michael E., 1994, Memory, History, and Being: Northwest Coast Reincarnation in Comparative Perspective. Amerindian Rebirth: American Indian and Inuit Concepts of Reincarnation, edited by Richard Slobodin and Antonia Mills, pp. 192-210. University of Toronto Press.
Encyclopedia Articles:
Harkin, Michael E., 2005, Spiritual and Ceremonial Practitioners on the Northwest Coast; Power, Northwest Coast; and Northwest Coast and Southeast Alaska in American Indian Religious Traditions: An Encyclopedia, edited by Suzanne J. Crawford and Dennis F. Kelley. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
Harkin, Michael E., 2002, Wakashan Oral Literature, Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada, William New, ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Harkin, Michael E., 2001, Potlatch in Anthropology, International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, eds., vol 17, pp. 11885-11889. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
HONORS AND AWARDS
2006-07 Mary Lindner Faculty Research Award, University of Wyoming, College of Arts & Sciences.
2003-04 Wyoming Arts Council Literature Fellowship.
2001 Extraordinary Merit in Research Award, University of Wyoming, College of Arts & Sciences.
2000 U.S. Canadian Embassy, Canadian Studies Fellowship.
1999-2000 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers.
SELECTED RECENT ORAL PRESENTATIONS
Towering Conflicts: Devils Tower as Sacred Place. Second International Conference of Sustainability. Hanoi and Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, January 2006.
A Short History of a Strange Place: Anachronism and Paradox on Roanoke Island. Invited Participant, Advanced Seminar: “Event, Place, and Narrative Craft: Method and Meaning in Microhistory.” School of American Research, Santa Fe, NM, July 2005.
Ethnoecology for a New Day: Beyond the Ecological Indian. Invited lecture, University of Victoria, School of Environmental Studies. June 2005.
What would Franz Boas have thought of 9/11? A Post-post Modernist Reflection on Cultural Relativism. Invited lecture, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Department of Anthropology. April 2005.
Beyond the Ecological Indian: Northwest Coast Ethnoecology, Praxis, and Chaos Theory. Invited lecture, Dartmouth College Department of Anthropology/Rockefeller Center for Social Sciences Colloquium, January 2004.
A Poetics of Ambiguity: Rumors of the Noble Savage in the Lost Colony. Dartmouth College Native American Studies Colloquium, January 2004.
Une Faim Terrible: Praxis et Idéologie écologique Chez la Côte Nord-ouest and La Question de la Proprieté Culturelle Chez les Indiens de la Côte Nord-ouest. Invited lectures, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, March 2003.
Performance and Paradox: Narrativity and the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Worlds in Collision Conference, Dunsmuir Lodge, Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria, Sydney, BC, February 2002.
About the House: Missionary-led Changes in Heiltsuk House Form and Social Structure, 1880-1920. Symposium on Indigenous Peoples and Religious Change: Australia in an International Context, Perth, Western Australia, February 2002.
Privacy, Ownership, and the Repatriation of Cultural Properties: An Ethnographic Perspective from the Northwest Coast. Categories, Culture, and Property Conference, Chicago-Kent Law School, Chicago, IL, September 2001.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
International:
UNESCO, Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, International Editorial Council and Theme Editor for Cultural Anthropology.
National:
Book Review Editor, Ethnohistory 2001-06
Associate Editor, Ethnohistory 1997-
Editorial Board member, Cultural Anthropology, 2001-
Program Chair, Society for Humanistic Anthropology, 2004-05.
Chair, Ermine Wheeler-Vogelin Prize Committee, American Society for Ethnohistory, 1999.
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