Sept. 2011
BUNNY McBRIDE
ABBREVIATED VITAE
Department of Sociology & Anthropology
204 Waters Hall, Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506 USA
Phone: 785-532-6865
EMAIL: bmcb@ksu.edu
PROFESSION
Writer/ Anthropologist/ Editor/Exhibit Curator
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Biography, oral history, ethnography,
indigenous peoples, wildlife conservation,
tourism; Africa, North America
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Adjunct Lecturer of Anthropology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS (1995-)
Writer (1977-): Currently under contract to complete 4 books coming out in 2010
Guest Museum Curator (1990-): Most current exhibition: “Indians & Rusticators: Wabanakis & Summer
Visitors at Mount Desert Island, 1840s-1920s” for the Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, ME. (2011-2013)
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Vice President, Women’s World Summit Foundation, based in Geneva, Switzerland (2003-)
Freelance Editor (substantive and copy editing) (1977-)
Oral History Advisor, Kansas Humanities Council Heritage Project (1995-)
Advisory Committee, Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, ME (1997-)
EDUCATION
MA, Cultural Anthropology, Columbia University, New York, NY (1980)
BA, Fine Art and English, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (1972)
MFA courses(19 credits), Boston University, Boston, MA (1973-75)
PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Editor, Executive Summary, Window on the News, Boston, MA (1996-2000)
Visiting Lecturer of Anthropology, Principia College, Elsah, IL (biennial spring terms, 1981-2002)
Visiting Lecturer, Salt Center for Documentary Field Studies, Portland, ME (1995)
Stringer, The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, MA (1979-1988)
Director of Research & Development, Association of Aroostook Indians, Houlton, ME (1981-82)
Assistant Editor, Home Forum Page, The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, MA (1978-79)
Director, Boston Forum Community Center, Boston, MA (1973-77)
Production Assistant, Promotion & Design, Christian Science Monitor, Boston, MA (1972-73)
PREVIOUS CONSULTANCIES
Consultant and grant writer, Aroostook Micmac Indian Council, Presque Isle, ME (1982-91)
Chair, Grant Review Panel, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Native
Americans, Washington, D.C. (1982-88)
Ethnographic Researcher, "Our Lives in Our Hands," documentary film, Karen Carter, Dir., Harald
Prins, prod. 1985 (distributed by Documentary Educational Resources, Watertown, MA).
PROFILED IN
Boston Globe Sunday Magazine 3/3/2001, pp16-17, 19-25 (“Hunting and Gathering: Writer Bunny
McBride Helps Maine’s Native American Women Unearth Their Lost History” by Edgar Allen Beem).
Contemporary Authors and Contemporary Authors. Gale Group, Thompson Pubs. Multiple editions,
1999Reference Encyclopedia of the American Indian, Barry T. Klein, Ed. (2000-2005/9th-12th editions).
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WORK REVIEWED in scores of mainstream and academic periodicals/media, including:
American Anthropologist
American Historical Review
American Indian Culture &
Resource Journal
American Indian Quarterly
Dance Research Journal
Ethnohistory
Harvard University Gazette
New Mexico Historical Review The
Women’s Review of Books
Boston Globe,
New York Times
Booklist
Kirkus Reviews
Publisher’s Weekly
PUBLISHING HONORS
Maine Publishers & Writers Alliance Literary Award, 2009: Honorable mention for Indians in Eden.
The Mirror of Maine. L. F. Sprague, ed. 2000. University of Maine Press. Molly Spotted Elk: A
Penobscot in Paris, featured in this annotated bibliography of 100 “best” books published in or about
Maine from 1613-1999.
Friends of American Writers [National] Literary Award, 1999: Women of the Dawn.
Maine Public Television, 1997: Research and writing featured in half-hour documentary, “True North:
Molly Spotted Elk.” Bill Moraldo, Prod. 1997. (Multiple MPBN airings, 1997-today.)
MUSEUM EXHIBITS
Guest Curator (with H. Prins): “Indians & Rusticators: Wabanakis & Summer Visitors at Mount
Desert Island, 1840s-1920s” for the Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, ME (July 2011-March. 2013).
Guest Curator: “Journey’s West: The David & Peggy Rockefeller American Indian Art
Collection.” Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, ME (2007-2008).
Guest Curator: Foyer Welcome Display. Sieur de Mont Spring Building, Abbe Museum
(2008/permanent display)
Guest Curator: “4 Mollys: Women of the Dawn.” Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, ME (2001-2002). Based
on my book Women of the Dawn. (Reviewed in American Anthropologist 106(1) 161-64 (March 2004):
“Interpreting Wabanaki Women’s History” by Marilyn Norcini).
Curator/Designer/Grant Writer: "Our Lives in Our Hands." (1990-91). Now housed at the Aroostook
Band of Micmacs Cultural Center, this exhibit on Native American basketmakers and their work
traveled, among other places, to the Anthropology Museum at the University of Pennsylvania, the
Hudson Museum at the University of Maine, and the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum at Bowdoin
College. (Funded by Maine Arts Commission and Maine Community Foundation.)
BOOKS
From Indian Island to Omaha Beach: Charles Shay, American Indian War Hero. (with H. Prins).
Gardiner, Me: Tilbury House Publishers. (Forthcoming autumn 2012)
Indians in Eden: Wabanakis & Rusticators on Maine’s Mount Desert Island 1840s-1920s (with H.
Prins). Camden: Down East Books. (2009)
Asticou’s Island Domain: Wabanaki Peoples at Mount Desert Island 1500-2000 (with H.
Prins), 2 vols., 618 pp. Boston: National Park Service. (2007; E-version published 2008, NPS
website: www.nps.gov/acad/historyculture/ethnography.htm).
Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge (with William Haviland, Harald E.L.Prins, and Dana
Walrath). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thompson Learning, 2004, 2007, 2010) Multiple translations
Evolution and Prehistory: The Human Challenge (with William Haviland, Harald E.L. Prins, and
Dana Walrath). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thompson Learning, 2004, 2007, 2010)
Anthropology: The Human Challenge (with William Haviland, Harald E.L. Prins, and Dana Walrath).
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thompson Learning, 2004, 2007, 2010)
Essence of Anthropology (with William Haviland, Harald E.L. Prins, and Dana Walrath). Belmont, CA:
Wadsworth/Thompson Learning (forthcoming 2005, 2009, 2012).
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Women of the Dawn. (Friends of American Writers Literary Award winner) Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, 1999. (Paperback 2001)
Molly Spotted Elk: A Penobscot in Paris. Norman:University of Oklahoma Press, 1995 (Paperback
1997; National Library Service Talking Books 1997).
National Audubon Society Field Guide to African Wildlife (with Peter Alden, Richard Estes and
Duane Schlitter). New York: Knopf, 1995.
Our Lives in Our Hands: Micmac Indian Basketmakers. Halifax: Nimbus, and Gardiner, Me.: Tilbury
House, Publishers, 1990.
CHAPTERS/ARTICLES IN BOOKS & ENCYCLOPEDIA
“Spotted Elk, Molly (Mary Alice Nelson Archambaud).” In Notable American Women: A Biographical
Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century. Susan Ware, ed. Cambridge, MA & London: The Belknap
Press of Harvard University Press, 2004.
"Princess Watahwaso: Bright Star of the Penobscot." In Of Place & Gender: Women in Maine History.
Marli Weiner, ed. Orono, Me.: University of Maine Press, 2005
“Introduction.” In Katahdin: Wigwam’s Tales of the Abnaki Tribe. Molly Spotted Elk. Orono, ME:
University of Maine. 2003 (pp.vii-xvii).
"Lucy Nicolar: The Artful Activision of a Penobscot Performer." In Sifters: Native American Women’s
Lives. Theda Perdue, ed. Oxford University Press, 2001 (pp141-159).
"The Spider and the WASP." In Reading Beyond Words: Context for Native History. Jennifer S.H.
Brown and Elisabeth Vibert, eds. 403-427. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 1996, 2nd edition 2003
(pp407-430).
"Discovering Europe 1493" (with H. Prins). In World History, 1500 to the Present, vol. II (Annual
Editions). D. McComb, ed. 95-98. Guildford, Ct.: Brown & Benchmark, 1996.
"Walking the Medicine Line: Molly Ockett, a Pigwacket Doctor" (with H. Prins). In Northeastern Indian
Lives. Robert Grumet, ed. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996 (pp321-47).
"A Social History of Maine Indian Basketry." (with H. Prins). In Maine Basketry Past to Present (exhibit
catalog). Carolyn Herter, ed. 5-14. Waterville, Me.: Colby College Museum of Art, 1989. (Reprinted in
Kennebec Proprietor, Vol. 6:2. Augusta, Me.: Fort Western Museum, winter 1990.)
"Senegal’s Door of No Return." In Destinations: Uncommon Trips, Treks and Voyages. Sonja Thomas,
ed. 190-93. Boston: The Christian Science Monitor, 1989.
"Mercy's Greeting." In Home Forum Reader. Fred Hunter, ed. 151-53. The Christian Science Monitor,
1989.
"The Micmac of Maine." In Rooted Like the Ash Trees: New England Indians and the Land.
R.G.Carlson, ed. 35-39. Naugatuck, Ct.: Eagle Wing Press, 1987.
"Who Needs Signatures? The Significance of Unsigned Art." In Inside/Outside: Private Art (exhibit
catalog). Natasha Mayers, ed. Portland: University of Southern Maine, 1987.
SCORES OF ARTICLES IN NUMEROUS NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES, INCLUDING:
The Christian Science Monitor (90+ pieces, many
syndicated)
The Boston Globe (newspaper & magazine)
Chicago Tribune
Seattle Times
Philadelphia Inquirer
Washington Post
Travel & Leisure
Kansas City Star
World Monitor
Down East
Outside
Travel-Holiday
International Wildlife
Sierra
Yankee Magazine
TALKS: Scores of talks for colleges, universities, historical societies, museums, book clubs, etc.