Department Faculty
Theresa McCarthy
Assistant Professor of American Studies
Office: 1007 Clemens Hall
Phone: (716) 645-0823
Email: tm59@buffalo.edu
Education
B.A. (hons), Anthropology with Linguistics specialization from the University of Western Ontario
M.A., Symbolic Anthropology from the University of Western Ontario
Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology from McMaster University
Areas of Specialization
Native American Studies, esp. Haudenosaunee traditionalism and languages in contemporary contexts, Haudenosaunee citizenship/clans, Haudenosaunee women, Historiography of anthropological research on the Iroquois, Iroquois factionalism, linguistic research methodologies, community-based/applied research initiatives
Recent Publications/Manuscripts in Progress
“Hnyo'hneha' owena' - hnyo'hneha'nihaweno'de: ( “White kind” words and language): Haudenosaunee Traditionalism and Problems of Translation,” Contemporary First Nations: Discourse, Identity and Power, Eds. Regna Darnell, Lisa Philips Valentine, and Allan McDougall (forthcoming)
"Iroquoian and Iroquoianist: Anthropologists and the Haudenosaunee at Grand River." Histories of Anthropology Annual, Volume 4.
"Db:ni:s nisahsgaodvj?: Haudenosaunee Clans and the Reconstruction of Traditional Haudenosaunee Identity and Nationhood" (manuscript in-progress)
"Factionalism as Metanarrative: The Kanonhstaton Land Reclamation and Contemporary Critical Anthropology at Six Nations of Grand River" (manuscript in -progress)
Current Research
Professor McCarthy is adapting her dissertation, "'It isn't easy': The Politics of Representation, 'Factionalism,' and Anthropology in Promoting Haudenosaunee Traditionalism at Six Nations," into a book that will interrogate interpretive representations of Iroquois factionalism from multiple frames of reference by engaging historic and ongoing colonial experiences, state/power relations and paradigms of unity, divisiveness and nationalism as advanced through Haudenosaunee traditionalism and languages.
Collaborative work with other Six Nations scholars on research grant writing to assist Haudenosaunee language speakers from Six Nations of Grand River in reproducing portions of the J.N.B Hewitt collection (Smithsonian archives) for the purposes of translation.
Collaborative work with other Six Nations scholars and community members in the assembling and developing educational resources on the history of Six Nations land rights in the Grand River Tract region.
Frequently Taught Courses
Indigenous Knowledges and Sustainable Futures
Six Nations People in Contemporary Times
Honoring Indigenous Women
Critical Readings in Indigenous Scholarship
Indigenous
Human Rights
Globalization,
Development and Indigenous Peoples
Native
American Literature
First
Nations Literature in Canada
Professional Activities
Member,
American Studies Graduate Committee at UB
Member,
The Buffalo Seminar on Racial
Justice
Member,
American Anthropological Association
Member,
Society for the Anthropology of North America
Member,
The President's Committee on Indigenous Issues, McMaster University
Awards and Grants
UB
Gender Institute, Gender Week Grant, 2007
Fulbright
Scholar at SUNY-Buffalo, Center for the Americas
United
Nations Bursary Award