At this point in my life, I'm 76, it's time to share my life's experience by supporting students in the CCS Program in any ways I can. I combine over 50 years experience in working on issues between Native and non-Native peoples with political activity from a Left point of view that goes back three generations in my family. While I have the academic degrees and experience I see myself as a community organizer so my goal is to seek practical solutions to real problems backed up by rigorous study and understanding.
I believe I can be helpful in these ways:
- act as a mentor to help students succeed in general or in regard to researching and understanding specific topics. Help in a deeper understanding of the dynamics of Native--non-Native interactions.
-how to research politically in regard to finding and understanding facts and viewpoints--especially concerning Native--non-Native history and issues
-serve on masters/doctoral dissertation committees. My goal here is that excellent research and in-depth interpretation is done without imposing my point of view or particular methodologies.
I am a believer in life-long education--only took me 40 years from BA to Ph.D. My Ph.D. is in American Studies (Univ. of Hawai'i) with emphasis on international indigenous issues. My dissertation compares Soviet/Russian and American government policies towards Native peoples on both sides of the Bering Strait. As part of my research I was a year in the Russian Far Northeast and then time on the North Slope and the Northwest Arctic areas.
Professor Tony Kaliss
CCS Affiliated Faculty
