Smithsonian Curator to Lecture at UA
Reyna Green heads the American Indian Program at the National Museum of American History.
Rayna Green, an authority on American Indian culture, will lecture twice at The University of Arizona this week.
Green's first lecture is on Thursday at 12:30 p.m. in Room 428 of the Harvill building. The lecture is being held in conjunction with the American Indian Studies 450 class taught by associate professor Mary Jo Fox.
Her second lecture is at noon Friday in Harvill, Room 115, and is in conjunction with the Americain Indian Studies 595a class taught by professor Nancy Parezo.
Green is the curator and director of the American Indian Program at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. A Cherokee, she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in American literature and a master’s in American studies from Southern Methodist University. She also has a doctorate in folklore and American studies from Indiana University.
Green’s research focuses on American identity, the politics of culture in contemporary American Indian art and music, and American and American Indian material culture, women, agriculture and food. She also conducts research on and contemporary American food and wine.
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Nancy Parezo
American Indian Studies
626-4057