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Dr. Grant P. Arndt
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Iowa State University
319A Curtiss Hall
Ames, Iowa 50011-1050
gparndt@iastate.edu
EDUCATION
06/2004
The University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Doctor of Philosophy, Anthropology
Dissertation: No Middle Ground: Ho-Chunk Powwows and the Production of Social
Space in Native Wisconsin.
Committee: Raymond Fogelson, Michael Silverstein, Elizabeth Povinelli,
Terry Straus
12/1997
The University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Master of Arts, Anthropology
Master’s thesis: “Cosmopolitan Indians: The Creation of Chicago’s American
Indian Center, 1947-1959.”
06/1994
The University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Bachelor of Arts, with honors, Anthropology
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008-Pres
Iowa State University (Ames, IA)
Associate Professor, Dept. of Anthropology & the American Indian Studies
Program: 2015-Pres
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology & the American Indian Studies
Program: 2008-2015
2007-2008
St. Cloud State University (Saint Cloud, MN)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
2004-2007
St. Olaf College (Northfield, MN)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
2001-2003
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Visiting Lecturer, American Indian and Native Studies Program
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Scholarship
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Forthcoming “Ho-Chunk Powwows and the Politics of Tradition.” Lincoln, NE: The
University of Nebraska Press. [June 2016].
1998 Native Chicago (co-edited with Terry Straus). Chicago: McNaughton and Gunn, Inc.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
2015. “Voices and Votes in the Fields of Settler Society: American Indian Media and
Electoral Politics in 1930s Wisconsin.” Comparative Studies in Society and History. Vol.
57, No. 3 (July).
2014 “The Emergence of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race and Culture in Native North
America.” Reviews in Anthropology. Vol. 45: 79-105.
2013 “Mediating Indigeneity: Ho-Chunk Indian News and the Legacies of Settler
Colonialism.” Settler Colonialism Studies. Vol. 3, No. 2: 202-213.
2012 “Autobiography en Abyme: Indigenous Reflections on Representational Agency in the
Case of Crashing Thunder.” Ethnohistory. Vol. 59, No. 1: 29-49.
2010 “The making and muting of an indigenous media activist: Imagination and ideology
in Charles Round Low Cloud’s “Indian News.” American Ethnologist, Vol. 37, No. 3:
499-510.
1998 “‘Contrary to Our Way of Thinking’: The Struggle for an American Indian Center in
Chicago.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal. Vol. 22, No. 4: Pages 117-134.
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
2009 “Imagining Activist Agendas: Urban Institution-Building, Tribal Sovereignty, and the
Articulatory Moment.” American Indian Activism in the Sixties. Edited by Terry
Straus and Kurt Peters. Chicago: Albatross Press. Pages 234-252.
2009 “Indigenous Agendas and Activist Genders: Chicago’s American Indian Center,
Social Welfare, and Native American Women’s Urban Leadership.” Keeping the
Campfires Going: Native Women’s Activism in Urban Communities. Edited by Susan
Applegate Krouse and Heather Howard. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Pages 234-252.
2005 "Ho-Chunk ‘Indian Powwows’ of the Early Twentieth Century." In Powwow. Edited
by Clyde Ellis, Luke Eric Lassiter, and Gary H. Dunham. Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press. Pages 46-67.
2002 “Relocation’s Imagined Landscape and the Rise of Chicago’s Native American
Community.” In Native Chicago. Edited by Terry Straus. Second Edition. Chicago:
Albatross Press. [See 1998 (below)] Pages 159-172.
2001 “Amy Leicher Skenandore.” Women Building Chicago 1790-1990: A Biographical
Dictionary. Rima Lunin Schultz and Adele Hast, eds. Bloomington: Indiana University
Press. Pages 801-803.
1998 “Mapping the Move from Reservation to City: Relocation’s Imagine Landscapes and
the Rise of Chicago’s Native American Community.” In Native Chicago. Edited by
Terry Straus and Grant Arndt. Chicago: McNaughton and Gunn, Inc. Pages 114-27.
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Non-Peer Reviewed Articles
2008 “Ho-Chunk Powwows: Innovation and Tradition in a Changing World.” The
Wisconsin Magazine of History.Volume 91, Issue 3: 28-41.
1997 “Burkhardtian Cultural History and the ‘Durkheim-Mauss Bug’: Paul Radin’s
Correspondence with Edward Sapir.” History of Anthropology Newsletter. Vol. 24.
Book Reviews
Forthcoming: Christopher A. Scales. Recording Culture: Powwow Music and the Aboriginal
Recording Industry ion the Northern Plains (Duke 2012). In Ethnohistory.
2013 Matthew Krystal. Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian: Contested Representation in the
Global Era (Colorado, 2012). The Americas, 70(1), 109-111.
2009 Jeffrey Himpele, Circuits of Culture: Media, Politics and Indigenous Identity in the Andes. In
Visual Anthropology. 23(4), 373-374.
2007 Herbert S. Lewis, Oneida Lives: Long-Lost Voices of the Wisconsin Oneidas. In The Journal
of Anthropological Research. Vol. 63. 131-132.
2007 Heather Devine, The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis in a Canadian
Family, 1660-1900. InThe American Review of Canadian Studies. 36(2), 362.
Work in Progress
Revise and Resubmit. “Settler Agnosia: Diagnosing the Foundations of
Ethnographic Entrapment, Settlerness, and Racialization in the Field of Indigenous
Struggles.” [R & R American Ethnologist, 1/2015.]
CONFERENCE PAPERS
Invited International Presentation
2009 Sixth German-American Frontier of Humanities Symposium, “Sovereign Bodies,
Subject Bodies.” Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and American Philosophical
Society. Potsdam, Germany, October 15-18.
International Conference Presentation
2006 52nd Annual Congress of the Americanists, Seville, Spain, July 2006.
Paper: “The Burdens of Indigenous Self-Representation: Ho-Chunk Tourist
Performances at the Wisconsin Dells.” For the panel, “Representing Indigeneity”
National Conference Presentations
2015 American Anthropological Association, Denver, CO
Paper: “Dispossession, Governance and Tourism: Staging “Injun Summer” in the
Wisconsin Dells.”
For the panel: “Dispossession as Governance/Governance as
Dispossession.”
2015 American Society for Ethnohistory, Las Vegas, NV
Paper: “Discovering the “Indian News”: Indigenous Media as Historical
Practice”
For the panel: “Lifting the Veils on the Making of Ethnohistories”
2015 Central States Anthropological Society, Minneapolis, MN
Paper: “Articulating Traditions in Modern Nation-Building: The Politics
of Powwows and other forms of Cultural Performance”
For the panel, “Indian Country Today.”
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CONFERENCE PAPERS (cont.)
National Conference Presentations (cont.)
2014 American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC
Paper: “From ‘petrification’ to ‘articulation’: World War I and the sociopolitical
and theoretical consequences of the revival of Ho-Chunk warrior traditions.”
For the panel, “World War I, Sociopolitical Escalation/Destabilization, and the
Production of Anthropology.”
2013 American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL.
Paper: “Indigeneity in Print and in Person during the Era of the Ho-Chunk
Indian News.” For the panel, “Voicing Indigeneity and Engaging Publics in
Print.”
2011 American Anthropological Association, Montreal, PQ.
Paper: “Mediating Indigenous Subjects and their Histories: Ho-Chunk ‘Indian
News’ as an Early Example of Indigenous Media Activism.” For the panel,
“Unsettled States: Indigenous Cultural Activism, Sovereignty, and the
Unfinished Legacies of Settler Colonialism.”
2010 Plains Anthropological Society, Bismarck, ND.
Paper: “Ho-Chunk ‘Indian News’ and the Cultural Politics of Media Activism”
For the panel, “Writing (Public) Anthropology: Activism, Academia, and
Acceptance.”
2010 Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, Tucson, AZ
Paper: “Exposing the Hidden Legacies of Ho-Chunk Dispossession: “Indian
News” and the Struggle over Hunting Laws in 1930s Wisconsin.”
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2008 57 Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Northfield, MN
Discussant: “The Social Consequences of Neoliberal Development in China.”
2008 Central States Anthropological Society, Indianapolis, IN.
Paper: “American Indian Political Imaginaries and the Struggle for Autonomy.”
For the panel, “American Indian Activism in the Sixties.”
2007 American Society for Ethnohistory, Tulsa, OK
Paper: “Gifts and Profits: Struggles over Commodification and Incorporation in
the History of Ho-Chunk Cultural Performance.” For the panel, “Beyond
Dichotomizing Discourses: Indigenous Persistence, Conflict and Creativity
within Historically Created Contexts.”
2007 American Ethnological Society, Toronto, Canada
Paper: “Cosmopolitan Indians and the Imaginary Institution of Indigenous Life
in Chicago.”
2006 American Anthropological Association, San Jose, CA
Paper: “The Gift of Culture: Occupying the Center at Ho-Chunk Powwows” For
the panel, “The Culture in Cultural Festivals.”
2005 American Society for Ethnohistory, Santa Fe, NM
Paper: “Ho-Chunk Cultural Self-Representation at Tourist Performances:
Whiteness and the Articulation of Indigenous Identity.”
2005 Central States Anthropological Society, Oxford, OH
Paper: “Powwows, Power and Profits: Intercultural Conflicts over the Meaning
of Money and the Value of Culture in Early Ho-Chunk Proto-Powwows.”
2003 American Anthropological Association. Chicago, IL
Paper: “Before the People: Recognizing the Indigenous Audience in
Contemporary Powwow Performance.”
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CONFERENCE PAPERS (cont.)
National Conference Presentations (cont.)
2002
2002
2000
1999
1998
1997
1997
American Society for Ethnohistory, Quebec City, PQ
Paper: “No Middle Ground: Trials of the Warrior in the Making of Wisconsin,
1828-1906.”
Southern Anthropological Society, Asheville, NC
Paper: Wisconsin Powwows and the Powers of Culture Performance.”
American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA
Paper: “Wisconsin Powwows and the Structural Transformations of Indigenous
Public Space.”
American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL
Paper: “Multiculturalism and the Dangers of Ethnicization: The Cultural Politics
of the Powwow at Wisconsin’s Sesquicentennial Folklife Festival.”
Crossing Borders Conference. The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
Invited Paper: “Injuring Images: The Stereotype of the “Maladjusted Indian” in
Expert Understandings of Native American Urbanization.”
American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC
Paper: “Cosmopolitan Indians: Identity, Place and Power in the Development of
Chicago’s American Indian Center.”
American Ethnological Society, Seattle, WA
Paper: “Finding Culture and History in the Voice of The Autobiography of a
Winnebago Indian.”
Research/Creative Activities
Grants and Fellowships
2014
LAS College Small Grant Program (also 2013)
2012
Philips Fund, American Philosophical Society Library
2011
CEAH Summer Fellowship
1996-99
Century, Three-year Tuition and Stipend Fellowship
1995-96
Phoenix, Year-long Tuition Fellowship
Invited Lectures
Iowa State University
04/2011
CEAH Roundtable: "The City in Global Context: Urban Space, Architecture
& Infrastructure in Cross-Cultural Perspective."
04/2010
“Exposing the Hidden Legacies of Ho-Chunk Dispossession: ‘Indian News’
and the Struggle over Hunting Laws in 1930s Wisconsin.” Works in Progress
Series.
02/2010
The Ethnography of Ho-Chunk Powwows, guest lecture for Anthro 306.
11/2009
“Ho-Chunk Powwows,” Professor’s Lecture for the Anthropology Club.
St. Cloud State University
3/2008
“Gifts and Profits: Money, Culture, and Business in the Development of HoChunk Powwows.” Department of Sociology & Anthropology Colloquium,
St. Cloud, MN
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Teaching
Faculty Development
2009-10
CELT Teaching Partners Program
2009
CELT Large Classroom Learning Community
Courses Taught
ANTH 450. Historical and Theoretical Approaches in Anthropology
This course examines the history of anthropological theory, reflecting upon
anthropology’s unique legacies and potentials as a scientific approach to key
problems in contemporary life. The course also examines major global processes and
ideologies that have provided the context for anthropological research from
colonialism to neoliberalism with the goal of cultivating a deeper engagement among
students with the questions that anthropologists seek to answer through their
research. In addition to close readings of key theoretical texts and debates since the
1960s, each student develops an individual research paper exploring a particular area
of theoretical concern in one of the anthropological subfields.
ANTH 419A. Special Topics in Anthropology: Media Anthropology
Mass media have become a key topic of anthropological research in recent decades,
from innovative forms of Indigenous media and the role of broadcast media in the
formation of national consciousness to the rise of computer-mediated communities
and cultural formations. This course examines anthropological approaches to media,
focusing in particular on recent work on social media. Students in the course will also
carry out their own media ethnography and write a research paper on a media-related
topic.
ANTH 332/532. Current Issues in Native North America (formerly 432/532)
This course exams the conditions and issues facing contemporary American Indian
peoples and the historical background of contemporary life in Native North
America. An overarching concern of the course is the struggle for treaty rights and
the reclamation of Indigenous self-determination and sovereignty, including issues
such as reservation economic development, the politics of Indigeneity and
Indigenous media, as well as cultural innovation, heritage preservation and
revitalization.
ANTH 322/522. Peoples and Cultures of Native North America
This course explores the major culture areas of North America north of Mexico
from the archaeological to the present. It explores a number of issues, including
ecology and subsistence, language, kinship, life cycle, political, economic, religious
systems, and the impact of European contact. Students in this course learn the
language families and tribal nations for the 12 standard culture areas in Native North
America, as well as indigenous history and the impact of European colonization.
ANTH 201. Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
This course provides an introduction to the comparative study of the cultures and
peoples of the contemporary world (and of the recent past) from across the globe. It
examines the ways in which sociocultural anthropologists use ethnographic research
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methods to study issues, including human-environmental relations, the organization
of social groups, culture contact, colonization, globalization, and the way culture
shapes gender, race, ethnicity, nationalism, and other frameworks of identityformation. Students in the course read and discuss four anthropological studies as a
way of learning about distinct parts of the contemporary world (Native North
America, Western Africa, South Asia, and Western Europe), but also as exemplars of
different kinds of contemporary ethnographic/anthropological research.
AMIN 210. Introduction to American Indian Studies
This course focuses on a number of key issues related to Native North America,
including American Indian history, culture, politics, and economics. Topics
addressed include the cultural diversity of indigenous communities, the impact of
European contact and colonization, the rise of modern tribal nations in the context
of the shifts of federal Indian policy, and the development of American Indian
activism and politics.
Program of Study Committees
2014-pres
2014-pres
2014-pres
2012-pres
2011-2012
2010-2012
2010-2012
2010-2011
2009-pres
2009-pres
2009-2011
2009-2010
Zachary Hudson (Horticulture Phd)-Committee Member
Drazen Juric (Anthropology MA) – Committee Chair
Matthew Neff (Anthropology MA)—Committee Member
Cristin Dragos Atoms (Anthropology MA) – Committee Member
Jeanie Kilpatrick (Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies) – Committee Member
Daniel Musgrave (Anthropology, MA Awarded 2012) – Committee Member
Caleb Call (IGS, MA Awarded 2012) – Committee Member
Jennifer Vasquez (Sociology, MA Awarded 2011) – Committee Member
Karen Bovenmyer (Anthropology MA) – Committee Member
Trevalyn Gruber (Sociology PhD) – Committee Member
Kimberly Berg (Anthropology, MA Awarded 2011) – Committee Member
Meghan Gillette (Anthropology, MA Awarded 2010) – Committee Co-Chair
First-Year Honor Mentors Program
2013-2014
Anita Fryzek
Extension/Professional Practice
PANELS ORGANIZED
2015
2013
Co-organized the panel, “Dispossession as Governance/Governance as
Dispossession.” At the Annual meeting of the American Anthropological
Association, Denver, CO.
Co-organized the panel, “Voicing Indigeneity and Engaging Publics in Print,” at the
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago IL.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2015
2012
2012
Manuscript Review, American Ethnologist
Grant Review, Iowa Humanities Council, “Lost Nation: The Ioway 2 & 3,”
Video documentary on Ioway history in Iowa
Manuscript Review: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society
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2010
2009
Manuscript Review: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Manuscript Review: Cultural Anthropology
Manuscript Review: American Indian Culture and Research Journal
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Anthropological Association
American Ethnological Society
Society for Cultural Anthropology
Central States Anthropological Society
Institutional Service
LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY BUILDING ACTIVITIES
2014-Present Faculty advisor, Department of Anthropology Research Symposium
2009-pres
Founder and organizer of American Indian Studies Movie Night
2009-pres
Co-founder and organizer of the Indigenous Studies Workshop
COLLEGE & DEPARTMENT COMMITTEES & BOARDS
2014-Present Library Liaison, Department of Anthropology
2014
American Indian Studies Faculty Search Committee
2010
Anthropology-Political Science Faculty Search Committee
2009
American Indian Studies Faculty Search Committee
2009-pres
Faculty Senate Representative
2008-pres
Departmental Disability Liaison