Alice L. Littlefield, Ph.D. (emerita)

email: littl1al@cmich.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1976
  • M.S., Iowa State University, 1964
  • B.A., Michigan State University, 1959

Areas of Teaching expertise:

  • North American Indian Cultures
  • Gender, Culture and Society
  • Globalization and Society
  • Current American Indian Issues

Research Interests:

  • Economic Anthropology
  • Education of Native Americans

Selected Publications:

  • "Education," in A Companion to the Anthropology of North American Indians, Thomas Biolsi, ed. Blackwell Companions to Anthropology. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, May, 2004.
  • Book Review: Tressa Berman, "Circle of Goods: Women, work and Welfare in a Reservation Community" (Albany: SUNY Press, 2003), Great Plains Research, forthcoming, 2004.
  • "Perishing Paradigm: Race--1930 to 1999." With L. Lieberman and R. Kirk. American Anthropologist, vol. 105, March 2003.
  • Littlefield, Alice, Leonard Lieberman and Larry T. Reynolds. "The Debate Over Race: Thirty Years and Two Centuries Later; Part Two: Thirty Years After the Debate Over Race: The Passing of the Great Consensus." Race and IQ. Ed. Ashley Montagu. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 70 - 84.
  • Native Americans and Wage Labor: Ethnohistorical Perspectives. Ed. Martha C. Knack and Alice Littlefield. Oklahoma University Press, 1996.