Dian Million

Dian Million, a Tanana Athabascan, is an associate professor In the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington.

Education, career and service

Million received her Master of Arts in Ethnic Studies in 1998 and her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 2004. Million is an Associate Professor in American Indian Studies and an Affiliated faculty in Canadian Studies, the Comparative History of Ideas Program, and the English Department at the University of Washington. She currently serves as the Chair for the Department of American Indian Studies.

Research and notable publications

Dian Million is the author of Therapeutic Nations: Healing in an age of Indigenous Human Rights.[1] The book focuses on Indigenous feminist activism in communities and offers a felt theory of colonized peoples and emotional trauma.[2] Million offers felt theory as an approach to affect and history, and focuses on Canadian First Nation Women.[3] Million is the author of Felt Theory: An Indigenous Feminist Approach to Affect and History,[4][5] Intense Dreaming: Theories, Narratives and Our Search for Home,[6] There is a River in Me: Theory from Life in Theorizing Native Studies.[7] "Indigenous Matters" in Gender: Matter[8] and "Trauma, Power, and the Therapeutic: Speaking Psychotherapeutic Narratives in an Era of Indigenous Human Rights,” in Reconciling Canada: Historical Injustices and the Contemporary Culture of Redress.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Therapeutic Nations". The University of Arizona. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
  2. ^ Culhane, Dara (20 July 2015). "Dian Million, Therapeutic Nations: Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights". Peace Review. 27 (3): 399–401. doi:10.1080/10402659.2015.1063389. S2CID 143108027.
  3. ^ Elliot, Emma (28 July 2014). "A Review of "Therapeutic Nations: Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights"". Educational Studies (50): 398–404.
  4. ^ Dian Million (2009). "Felt Theory: An Indigenous Feminist Approach to Affect and History". Wíčazo Ša Review. 24 (2): 53–76. doi:10.1353/wic.0.0043. ISSN 1533-7901. S2CID 143929791.
  5. ^ "Dian Million's "Felt Theory" Is an Award Finalist! | American Indian Studies | University of Washington". ais.washington.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
  6. ^ Dian Million (2011). "Intense Dreaming: Theories, Narratives, and Our Search for Home". American Indian Quarterly. 35 (3): 313. doi:10.5250/amerindiquar.35.3.0313. ISSN 0095-182X. S2CID 142907715.
  7. ^ Million, Dian (2014), "There Is a River in Me", Theorizing Native Studies, Duke University Press, pp. 31–42, doi:10.1215/9780822376613-002, ISBN 978-0-8223-5667-7, retrieved 2020-10-02
  8. ^ Million, Dian. "Indigenous Matters" in Gender: Matter. Edited by Stacy Alaimo. Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2017.
  9. ^ Henderson, Jennifer (Jennifer Anne) Wakeham, Pauline, 1976- (2013). Reconciling Canada : critical perspectives on the culture of redress. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-4426-1168-9. OCLC 862204581.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)