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Shari Huhndorf, Mentor
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Chris Finley, McNair Scholar

Shari Huhndorf earned her Ph.D. from New York University in 1996 and joined the faculty at the University of Oregon that same year. Associate Professor of English and former Director of the Ethnic Studies Program, her interests focus on Native American literature, history and politics as well as American cultural history and popular culture. She is the author of Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination (Cornell UP, 2001), "Nanook and His Contemporaries: Imagining Eskimos in American Culture, 1897-1922," (2000), and numerous articles. She is currently completing an anthology (co-edited with Patricia Hilden) titled Topographies of Race and Gender: Mapping Cultural Representations and working on a history of Native American drama.