Ethics in Research and Methods: Notes from a Native Anthropologist Please join us in welcoming Dr. Kelly Fayard (Poarch Band of Creek Indians) this Friday, February 4th at 3:30pm.
Dr. Fayard is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Denver. She earned her BA in cultural anthropology and religion from Duke University, and a certificate in museum studies as well as her M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Michigan. Her research deals primarily with the Poarch Band of Creek Indians in southern Alabama, where she is an enrolled citizen. Before moving to University of Denver, Fayard was the assistant dean of Yale College and the Director of the Native American Cultural Center. She moved to New Haven following a year at the School of Advanced Research in Santa Fe where she held the Anne Ray Fellowship and continued her ethnographic studies of the Poarch Creek community. Her research deals primarily with the Poarch Band of Creek Indians in southern Alabama, where she is an enrolled citizen. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Fighting to Belong: Race, Kinship, and Community among the Poarch Band of Creek Indians that examines the methods and actions the Poarch Creek use to define themselves as Creek, given the stereotypes and assumptions about what it means to claim an Indian identity.
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