home > TRiO and USP Programs > McNair > symposium > 2002 presentations > Theresa O'Nell

Theresa O’Nell, Mentor
Anthropology

Joe Cichosz, McNair Scholar

Theresa O’Nell received her Ph.D. in 1992 from Harvard University and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology. Prior to joining the faculty at the U of O in 1998, she was the Director of Ethnographic Research at the National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. O’Nell is a cultural anthropologist who works on issues of mental health and identity with Native Americans. Her findings on culture and depression among the Flathead people of Montana appear in her book Disciplined Hearts: History, Identity, and Depression in an American Community (U of California Press 1996). Her current projects attend to the role of history and culture in the emotional lives of colonized peoples.