CXCS Newsletter Issue February 2018
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Greetings!
Welcome!
The semester is in full swing. Before you know it, it will be graduation time! As always our faculty and staff are here to help you succeed, please contact our office at (907) 474-1902 or email uaf-cxcs@alaska.edu if you have any questions. Follow us on Facebook for updates and events.
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Dan Ho, PhD Indigenous Studies Candidate
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Dan expects to receive his PhD in Indigenous Knowledge Systems in May, 2018. Prior to attending UAF’s PhD program, he had a long career in publishing and cable television. Later he pursued teaching secondary science and math, which he left as he pursued his PhD. He is a native of Guam, and speaks fluent Chamorro.
A Mellon Foundation Fellow for 2017-2018, Dan’s doctoral research is about the traditional Chamorro after-life belief system known as
fa’nague.
His research design included field work in Guam, and online data gathering for Chamorros in the diaspora.
The project includes a comprehensive definition of the Chamorro cosmology which does not yet exist in academia. In addition, he uses the research as a working model for a proposed research methodology he’s calling Neo-Indigenous Methodology.
To read more about other student spotlights visit:
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Indigenous Studies Alumni Spotlight
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Dr. Jacqueline Rahm
PhD Indigenous Studies Alumni Class of 2014
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Dr. Jacqueline Rahm is a therapist with Family Centered Services of Alaska – Residential Treatment Center and is developing the Cultural Pathways program for youth with mental and behavioral health and substance abuse issues. The purpose of the program is to give equal voice for indigenous approaches to healing and wellness within the clinical setting. Jackie received her masters in community psychology and her doctorate in Indigenous Studies from UAF in 2014. Her interest in traditional ways of healing began in Nepal where she lived as a Peace Corps volunteer after completing her BA in psychology from Allegheny College in Pennsylvania. Her masters work took her back to Nepal and the spirit of a land and peoples that has had a profound effect on her worldview. For her research, she was fortunate to explore
Indigenous Psychologies of Nepal and the Use of Traditional Healing Systems
. Afterward, she worked in both the educational and mental health systems, but felt restricted by the institutionalized approaches to learning and wellness. She returned to UAF and pursed her doctoral work on
Deconstructing the Western Worldview: Toward the Repatriation and Indigenization of Wellness
. Through this work, she found her way back to her own ancestral roots and found that ancient traditions of Europe, particularly those of the Mediterranean region, shared more in common with indigenous cultures of the western hemisphere than they do with the modern-day western worldview. Her research tracked the West’s loss of their ancient spirituality to the European settlers’ arrival on the shores of this continent. It proposes that this original trauma is at the root of the West’s perpetration of the atrocities against indigenous peoples for over 500 years.
Equipped with a better understanding of why the West has done and continues to do what it does, Jackie returned to the RTC, where she had worked previously, with a renewed commitment to Alaska’s youth. As there is little evidence-based research that mental health services are effective for Native peoples, she feels it incumbent upon western systems to integrate indigenous perspectives, worldviews, practices, languages, etc. into these settings. This is her current focus as well as her family, meditation and Ashtanga yoga practices, and participation in Lakota ceremony as invited.
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We are proud of our alumni!
Stay connect with the Center for Cross-Cultural Studies. Do you have an exciting career or family success story to share? We would love to feature you on our newsletter and highlight your accomplishments.
To share your story, email
uaf-cxcs@alaska.edu
with a paragraph of your accomplishments, your research, along with a photo.
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Are you planning on graduating this Spring?
Here are some important deadline reminders for PhD Indigenous Studies students:
Step 1: Graduation applications are due
February 15th for Spring graduation
Step 2: Final dissertation is due to the
CXCS Department Chair Mike Koskey on March 10th (once changes are made as requested, the dissertation will be sent back the student's committee for review, once the committee is okay with it, you may send it to the Dean)
Step 3:Final dissertation is
due to CLA Dean Sherman March 24th for review (email a Word format electronic copy to
tlsherman@alaska.edu and also be sure to cc: Mike Koskey mskoskey@
alaska.edu and your committee members)
Note: Once the Dean has reviewed the final dissertation, it will be sent back to the student and committee with suggestions.
Also be sure to acknowledge the receipt of his email and suggestions.
Step 4: Once changes are made and is also approved by your committee chair, a copy of your final dissertation can be submitted on the UAF Graduate School website for formatting. It is
due to the UAF Graduate School April 7th.
Outside examiner needs to be requested two weeks before the oral defense.
All other graduate school paperwork is due April 24th
To learn more about the graduation process, please join our Brown Bag Luncheon. See flier below for more information. RSVP to uaf-cxcs@alaska.edu
Good luck on the semester everyone! Please contact our office if you have questions.
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2018 Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley Indigenous Scholars Award
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Our nomination application is now live! You may access it by clicking on the link below or going to our website at http://www.uaf.edu/cxcs/aok-award/.
Please submit your nomination by the deadline
February 1, 2018. The award will be presented during the Alaska Native Studies Conference in Juneau, AK in April 2018. Submit your nomination today!
For questions please contact our office at 907-474-1902 or email cafrank@alaska.edu
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How to apply for UAF's Privately Funded Scholarships: Apply Today!
- Log in to UAOnline with your username and password.
- Choose the “Financial Aid” or “Student Service and Account Information” menu, then choose the “Scholarships” link.
- On the “Scholarship Application Information” page choose the “APPLY NOW” link.
- On the University of Alaska “Our Opportunities” page you will need to sign in to UAOnline again. There is a “Sign In” link in the upper right hand corner of the page.
- Complete the questions on the “General Application” page. If you want to work on your application later, choose the “Save and Keep Editing” link at the bottom of the page. When you are done editing, choose “Finish and Submit” at the bottom of the page. This will put your application in the pool for the majority of UAF’s 450 Scholarships.
- Next, navigate to the “Opportunities” link at the top of the page. There you will find recommended scholarships that require additional information. Follow the individual application instructions for those that interest you.
- To be considered for need-based scholarships, complete the most current FAFSA at fafsa.gov by February 15th.
- If you are selected to receive a scholarship, you will be sent an award letter to your official UAF e-mail. Most scholarship recipients will be notified in April or May.
Deadline is Feb. 15, 2018
No late applications accepted.
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Doyon Revitalization Strategic Planning
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Several university faculty joined the Doyon Revitalization strategic planning meeting on Jan. 13th with Elders and other language-keepers. Seen in photo are X̱’unei Lance Twitchell, Assistant Professor of Alaska Native Languages, University of Alaska Southeast who facilitated the meeting. From the University of Alaska Fairbanks, College of Liberal Arts are LaVerne Demientieff, Clinical Associate Professor, Dept. of Social Work; Siri Tuttle,
Associate Professor of Linguistics and Alaska Native Language Center; Polly Hyslop, Assistant Professor, CXCS Indigenous Studies. Also in attendance was College of Rural and Community Development Vice Chancellor Evon Peter.
Photo: Elders and Language-keepers at the Doyon Language Revitalization Strategic Planning Meeting at the Doyon Facilities Training Room in Fairbanks. Photo courtesy of Allan Hayton, Language Revitalization Program Director.
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To Order ANKN Books & Materials contact
Richard Hum at 907-474-5897
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Alaska Native Knowledge Network
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ANKN is located on the 5th floor of the Gruening Building, room 503F. Please contact Richard Hum at 907-474-5897 or email
rehum@alaska.edu
for any inquiries on books and posters.
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University of Alaska Fairbanks
Center for Cross-Cultural Studies
201 Eielson Building, UAF campus
PO Box 756730
Fairbanks, AK 99775-6730
Phone: (907) 474-1902
Fax: (907) 474-1957
Office Hours 8AM-5PM M-F
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