Anthropology

at Northern Kentucky University

Sharlotte K. Neely

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Professor of Anthropology
Anthropology Coordinator
Anthropology Alumni Club Sponsor
Native American Studies Director

Curriculum Vitae

Northern Kentucky University
Department of Sociology/Anthropology/Philosophy
230 Landrum Academic Center
Highland Heights, KY 41099

Phone: (859) 572-5258
FAX: (859) 572-6086

Email: primary address & secondary address

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Website: http://www.nku.edu/~neelys/

Academic Degrees

Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
M.A. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
B.A. Georgia State University

Courses

ANT 100 Cultural Anthropology
ANT 230 North American Indians
ANT 231 Modern American Indians
ANT 270 Native Australia and Oceania
ANT 312 Social Organization

Research Interests

Cultural anthropology; applied anthropology; ethnohistory; North American Indians; Native Australia & Oceania; the environment; social organization; kinship; ethnicity; politics.

Current Research

fieldwork

My core interest is understanding the strategies small ethnic groups use to survive. My research interests focus on Native North America, Australia, and Oceania. Most of my research has been on the Cherokee Indians of North Carolina, especially the previously unstudied Snowbird Community. I have also done some research on the Shawnee, Navajo, Native Hawaiians, and urban Appalachians. Presently I am researching Black Cherokees, people of African and Cherokee descent, who were forced off Cherokee rolls despite having more than the minimal Cherokee blood degree. I have done historical research on the Black Cherokee Coleman family and am continuing that research through interviews with Coleman descendents.

Accolades

1998
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Service Award, Northern Kentucky University Student Government
1996
Strongest Influence Award, Northern Kentucky University Alumni Association
1994
Outstanding Professor Award, Northern Kentucky University

Selected Publications

2006
Black Cherokee. Freedom Chronicle [online journal] Fall 2006.
2005
Kasker: Anthropological Science Fiction. Martinsville, IN: Airleaf Publishing.
1991
Snowbird Cherokees: People of Persistence. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press (and paperback edition in 1993 and VHS/DVD documentary film version in 1995 and audiotape/CD edition in 2003).