Malinda Lowery
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Assistant Professor A.B. Harvard University, 1995 M.A. Stanford University, 1997 M.A. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2002 Ph.D. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2005 |
Research Interests
Native American history, Southern history, 19th and 20th century U.S. History
Race and Ethnicity
Identity
Community-Engaged Research
Works in Progress
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Selected Publications
Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press [forthcoming 2010]. 350 pp.
“Telling Our Own Stories: Writing Lumbee History In the Shadow of the BAR,” American Indian Quarterly 33 (4) [forthcoming, 2009].
“Indians, Southerners, and Americans: Race, Tribe, and Nation During Jim Crow,” James A. Hutchins Lecture at UNC-Chapel Hill, 26 February 2009, Native South 2 (Fall 2009): 1-22.
“Practicing Sovereignty: Lumbee Identity, Tribal Factionalism, and Federal Recognition, 1932-1934.” Foundations of First Peoples' Sovereignty: History, Culture and Education. Edited by Ulrike Wiethaus. New York: Peter Lang, 2008. 57-95.
“People and Place: Croatan Indians in Jim Crow Georgia, 1890-1920.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 21 (Spring 2005): 37-64.
“Finding Wisdom in Places: Lumbee Family History.” Indigenous Diasporas: Unsettling Western Fixations. Edited by Graham Harvey and Charles D. Thompson. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press, 2005. 153-68.
“What Is Progress? Desegregating an Indian School in Robeson County, North Carolina.” By James Arthur Jones, as told to Malinda Maynor. Southern Cultures 10 (Summer 2004): 87-93.
“Making Christianity Sing: The Origins and Experience of Lumbee Indian and African-American Church Music.” Confounding the Color Line: Indian-Black Relations in a Multidisciplinary Perspective. Edited by James Brooks. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. 321-45.
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Filmography
- Co-Producer, In the Light of Reverence - Video, 73 minutes (2001) National Broadcast: P.O.V., Public Broadcasting Service, August 14, 2001
Selected Awards: Henry Hampton Award for Social Change Documentary; Best Documentary Feature, American Indian Film Festival; Eagle Award, Taos Talking Picture Film Festival; CINE Golden Eagle; Jury Award, MountainFilm
- Producer/Director/Editor, Sounds of Faith - Video, 14 minutes (1997)
Selected Screenings: Sundance Film Festival, Smithsonian Institution, New York Native American Film Festival, American Indian Film Festival
- Producer/Director/Editor, Real Indian - 16mm, 7 minutes (1996)
Awards: Best Short Documentary, South by Southwest Film Festival; Best Indian-Produced Short Documentary, Red Earth Film Festival
Selected Screenings: Sundance Film Festival, Women in the Director’s Chair Film Festival, American Indian Film Festival
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Works in Progress
“Arlinda Locklear: An Oral History,” book chapter for Champions of Sovereignty: The Lawyers and Litigants Who Revitalized Tribal Autonomy,ed. Tim Alan Garrison [under contract at Carolina Academic Press]
“‘You Seem Like a Pied Man:’ Racial Ambiguity and Murder in Montgomery County, Georgia, 1893,” Article.
Enterprising Indians: Labor and Capital in the Choctaw Nation, 1872-1948, book-length work.
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Courses Offered (As Schedules Allow)
- HIST 231--Native American History: The East (lecture)
- HIST 395--Race and Ethnicity in the Twentieth Century (research seminar)
- HIST 716--Colloquium in U.S. History Since 1865 (graduate seminar)
- HIST 234--Native American Tribal Studies: Lumbee History (undergraduate seminar)