Philip Deloria is professor of history and American culture at the University of Michigan; president of the American Studies Association; author of Indians in Unexpected Places (2004) and Playing Indian (1998); and coeditor, with Neal Salisbury, of The Blackwell Companion to American Indian History (2001). His research and teaching focus on the cultural and ideological intersections of Indian and non-Indian worlds.

Lecture topics:

• Reading Mount Rushmore: Landscape, Experience, and History
• The Secret History of American Indian Modernity
• Three Tales of Crossed Culture: A Family History
• From Nation to Neighborhood: The Cultural Geography of U.S. Colonialism

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