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Theresa O'Nell, Mentor
Philosophy

Kelly Shaw, 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 teaching and research interests—medical anthropology, postcolonial psychology, and contemporary Native American life-reflect her work with Native American peoples. For example, 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). Currently, she is midway through a 5-year project on history, colonialism, and mental health among the people of a Northern Plains tribe.