[nativestudies-l] Andrea Smith Tenure Case - Statement by Faculty Members of NAS at

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Joseph
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 7:48 PM
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Subject: [Nativeprofs-list] Andrea Smith
Tenure Case - Statement by FacultyMembers of NAS at UM

Greetings, all. Below please find the text
of a statement by faculty members of Native American studies at the
University
of Michigan in support of Andrea Smith's tenure case.

Kind Regards,

Joe Gone

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We, the faculty members in Native American studies at the University of
Michigan, affirm our support for our valued colleague, Professor Andrea
Smith. As faculty in Native American studies, we have worked more closely
with
Professor Smith than any other group of faculty on campus. We have had ample
opportunity to engage with her in multiple contexts, to read her work, and to
comment on it formally.  In our view, Professor Smith is at
the very forefront of the interdisciplinary, community-oriented field of
Native
American Studies today. She has an enormous record of productivity for an
assistant professor on the cusp of tenure, including a major book with Duke
University Press, one of the premier outlets for work in American Studies.
She
has developed a range of research and activist projects highlighting the
intellectual work and social change potential within Native communities,
documenting violence against women on Indian reservations, and building a
cohort
of indigenous feminist scholars. She has infused this dynamic experience into
her teaching here at the University of Michigan, to the extent that her
undergraduate students beg her to offer additional courses in her areas of
expertise.

We believe that Professor Smith should be promoted to associate professor
with tenure at the University of Michigan. There still remains one additional
layer of review, at the level of the Provost. We hope�and strongly urge�that
this final review will be decided in favor of Professor Smith and in the best
interest of Native American Studies.

The Faculty of Native American studies
University of
Michigan


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Joseph P. Gone, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
     & American
Culture
Department of Psychology
University of Michigan
2239 East Hall, 530 Church Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1043
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Tel: (734) 647-3958
Cell: (734) 255-1420
Fax: (734) 615-0573
Email: JGone at umich.edu
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Website: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/joseph.p.gone/home
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