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Dr. Mitch Wilkinson
Interim Director, Center for Indigenous Cultural Surival
Mitch can be reached at:
wilk@uoregon.edu
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Deanne Linn Goforth
Deanne is a second-year graduate student in the International Studies Program. Deanne's research interest is indigenous women and development. She plans to research Tibetan women working towards cultural preservation and the relationship between land and people as a cultural significance in Dharamsala, India. She is a member of the Pawnee tribe in Oklahoma from the Chaui band. She works for the Center for Indigenous Cultural Survival as the Office Manager. You can contact her at:
dgoforth@uoregon.edu
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Aaron Reyna
Aaron Reyna-CICS Work-Study Office Assistant. Aaron is an Indigenous Mexican of Chichimec and Spanish ancestry. He is a Diversity Building scholarship recipient and plans to study abroad in Latin America in the future. He is an undergraduate at the University of Oregon currently pursuing a degree in Geography and has assisted Interim Director, Mitch Wilkinson in the Cross Cultural Communications course. You can contact him at:
areyna@uoregon.edu
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Min Pham
Born in Thai Binh, a northern province of Vietnam, he went to Hanoi for college in 1999 and finished his BA in 2003. He has been working at the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University in Hanoi since his graduation. He is interested in Theory of International Relations and focusing on East Asia region. As a Ford Foundation fellow, Min is granted to do his master in interdisciplinary program at University of Oregon. He can be reached at: minpv@vnu.edu.vn
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Regina Vayaliparampil
She is the Community and Public Schools Coordinator at the Center while concurrently working through the doctoral program in Educational Leadership. She is a second year international student from India. Prior to joining the University of Oregon, she spent six years teaching in the United Arab Emirates. Her research interests lie in the field of International and Comparative Education and she hopes to be eventually working with organizations involved in creating equity in educational access. Through her work at the center she strives to create an understanding among peoples that they are human beings first before they are doctors, Americans, lawyers, or Indians. She can be reached at:
mvayalip@uoregon.edu
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Yadili Okwumabua
Yadili is a Nigerian woman who was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba-Canada. She received her Bachelor's Degree in Economics at the University of Oregon (2006) and is currently in her first year pursuing a MPA through the Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management. Her research interests include education, international studies, and not-for-profit organizations (domestic and international). You can contact her at:
yokwumab@uoregon.edu
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Yaju Dharmarajah
Yaju is a Sri Lanka Tamil who is a Master's candidate at the University of Oregon. He is also a first year law student and Morse Fellow at the University of Oregon law school. He has spent the last six years working as a lead union organizer for the Service Employee's International Union in Massachusetts and Oregon. His work as a union organizer focused primarily on organizing and empowering low income service sector workers in fighting for their rights at the workplace and having their voice heard at their respective state legislatures. He has also worked as a campaign manager for state and governor's campaigns and served as a state coordinator for voter protection in Ohio for the AFL-CIO during the last presidential election. Yaju has worked as a journalist, researcher at the Center for Ethnic Studies and been active in social movements in his home country of Sri Lanka. Long term goals include working on the impact of development and globalization on disadvantaged communities in South Asia and the role of tribunals in helping resolve civil war conflicts and establish a process for post civil war and reconstruction work in his home country of Sri Lanka. He is an avid Salsa and Tango dancer and loves soccer. You can contact him at:
ydharmar@uoregon.edu
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Vũ
Ngọc Tuấn
Tuấn is from Hà Nộ̣i, Việt Nam. Through The Center for Indigenous Cultural Survival and University of Oregon - Vietnam University Sister University Project, he received a MOUSD scholarship, which helps support him during his five-year architecture program at the University of Oregon. After graduating, he plans to return to Viet Nam with the hope of using the knowledge he has learned through the Center to maintain the cultural legacy of his own country's architecture. You can contact him at:
vungoc@uoregon.edu
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Emeritas Faculty and Staff |
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Dr. Robert Proudfoot
Dr. Proudfoot was the Executive Director of the Center for Indigenous Cultural Survival and is of Houdenesounee peoples and Welsh cultural heritage. The senior Native professor at University of Oregon holds multiple PhD’s and master’s degrees. He was the first American (USA) to receive an honorary PhD from Vietnam National University, Hanoi and the Vietnamese Medal of Friendship for work in Vietnam over the last 20 years. He was an Erstead Teaching and Johnson scholar in residence and a member of the faculty of the International Studies Program at Vietnam National University. As the executive director for the Center for Indigenous Cultural Survival (CICS) and a participating educator of the International Studies, Peace Studies, and Ethnic Studies Programs at the University of Oregon, Rob was the seminal influence and driving force behind the center. You can honor his memory at the Proudfoot/Swenson Memorial Page. |
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Dr. Steve Swenson
Dr. Swenson was Assistant Director of CICS, and Associate Director of the University of Oregon-Vietnam University Sister University Project. He held graduate degrees in History, International Studies, Law, and Educational Policy and Administration. His focus was developing education ties and programs with Vietnamese institutions, and teaching and researching issues surrounding indigenous peoples. You can honor his memory at the
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Bradley Kauwe
'Kekoanui' Kauwe is a cultural Native Hawaiian working for Hawaiian self-determination and indigenous cultural survival. He is the Coordinator for International Programs of the Center for Indigenous Cultural Survival as well as the Coordinator for the project on the Hawaiian Islands. Bradley 'Kekoanui' is also a Master’s student in the International Studies Program. His exit project involves Native Hawaiian identity and diaspora. You can contact him at:
bkauwe@uoregon.edu
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Zelda Lopez Haro
Zelda, a Yaqui/Chicana received her master’s degree in the International Studies Program with a focus on Indigenous Cultural Survival spring 2006. Her master’s project, “Striking against the Empires: Distortion, Discarding, and Recovering” is a personal and scholastic narrative on the formation of Chicano identity in Tucson Arizona, and an analysis of the Indigenous ancestry of Chicanos. In 2001-2003, Zelda was the center’s program liaison, and remained a fellow scholar through the remainder of her graduate experience. Zelda has taught intro to Chicano studies through the Ethnic Studies program and Cross-Cultural Communication and Value Systems in a Cross-Cultural Perspective. Her current focus is localized community empowerment and community based education. You contact her at:
zlharo@netzero.com
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Shannon Lyon
Shannon is an Anishinaabe woman originally from International Falls, Minnesota. She received her bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Minnesota, Duluth in 2000. From Duluth, she moved to Eugene, Oregon the summer of 2003. It is here that she is an Interdisciplinary Studies: Individualized Program graduate student at the University of Oregon. She is studying Education, Sociology and International Studies. She works for the Center for Indigenous Cultural Survival as the Tribal Liaison. She is also a Multicultural Liaison for Springfield Public Schools in Springfield, Oregon. You can contact her at: slyon1@uoregon.edu
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Cao Hoàng Nam
Cao Hoang Nam comes from Hà Nội, Việt Nam. He is of the Kinh People - one of fifty-four ethnic groups in Vietnam. He has his BA in International Studies from Vietnam National University, Hanoi. Sponsored by the Center for Indigenous Cultural Survival, he is currently pursuing a two-year Master’s program in International Studies. His research interests include globalization and foreign aid. You can contact him at: caohoangnamvn@yahoo.com
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Amarah Niazi
Amarah Niazi is a first year graduate student at the International Studies Program. She is an international student from Pakistan and is a Pathan of Afghan origin. Her focus in studies lies in Gender Issues and Women’s rights. She was born in Islamabad, Pakistan and graduated from Quaid-e-azam University in 'Defence & Strategic Studies'. You can contact her at:
maroon81@hotmail.com
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Jackie Owens
Currently pursuing her Masters of Education from the UO College of Education Middle/Secondary Teaching Program, Jackie is the Educational Materials Coordinator for the Center. Her main research interest is Multicultural Education with special interests in issues of indigeneity, embodied knowledge, and media literacy. Jackie comes from Blackfeet, Croatian, and Welsh backgrounds. You can contact her at: jowens@uoregon.edu
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Apinita Suebsang
Apinita completed her master’s degree in the International Studies Program during summer term 2005. Her thesis focused on Thai women's issues – especially on the conflict of traditional and "modern" roles. Apinita grew up in Bangkok, Thailand. Her great-grandmother came from the Mon people group. You can contact her at:
apinitas@hotmail.com
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Michael
Viola
Michael Viola is a second year graduate student in both the International Studies Program and the Planning, Public Policy, and Management Department. Michael's research interest is in the historical and present day colonization of the Philippines through the institutionalization of particular economic, political, and educational policies. Michael grew up in Fresno, California and received his undergraduate degree from the University of California in Davis. You can contact him at:
mviola@uoregon.edu
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Thet Mar Win
Thet Mar Win is a Burmese-Shan woman from Burma (now called Myanmar). Her ancestors from her father's side were from Mandalay and Inn-wa, the central part of Burma, and her ancestors from her mother's side were from Ho-pone in the southern Shan State and from Tha Hton in Mon State. She was born and raised in Yangon, the capital of Burma. She was a third-year student at the University of Yangon when she left her country four years ago. Now she is a second year graduate student in the International Studies Program at the University of Oregon. Her research interest areas are cultural, social, economic and political influences in education systems, indigenous rights, and culturally appropriate HIV/AIDS education methods (in Burma). Her master’s thesis will focus on traditional and present education system of Burma. After receiving a master degree, she intends to join a Ph.D. program in the College of Education. You can contact her at:
twin@uoregon.edu
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