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Brian Klopotek, Mentor
Ethnic Studies

Laura Gibson, McNair Scholar

Brian Klopotek joined the University of Oregon Ethnic Studies Program faculty in 2003 and has recently completed his PhD in American Studies at the University of Minnesota. Klopotek hopes to turn his dissertation, “The Long Outwaiting: Federal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities,” into a book and several articles on federal recognition, Indian education under Jim Crow, and the impact of material culture on tribal identity. In 2001, he published "I guess your warrior look doesn’t work every time’: Challenging Indian Masculinity in the Cinema,” in Matt Basso, et al, eds.; Across the Great Divide: Cultures of Manhood in the US West. He teaches courses in Ethnic Studies and Anthropology that focus on American Indian ethnohistory and issues of race in the United States.