| Donna Deyhle, Ph.D. Professor 308D MBH, 587-7804 Donna.Deyhle@utah.edu |
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Donna Deyhle is a Professor in the Department of Educational Studies and the Ethnic Studies Program, and Co-Director of the American Indian Resource Center at the University of Utah. Her major professional interests focus on anthropology and education, cultural conflict, racism, critical theory, the education of American Indians, and Navajos. Her research and field work has focused on educational issues in cross-cultural settings in Brazil, Peru, Australia, and various American Indian reservations in the United States. In addition to research in multicultural education, she has taught on-site teacher training programs on the Navajo reservation and at Laguna, Acoma, and Zuni Pueblos. She is the author of "Navajo Youth and Anglo Racism: Cultural Integrity and Resistance" in Harvard Educational Review (1995), co-author of "Culture and Child Development: Navajo Youth and the Middle School" in Theory Into Practice (with M. LeCompte, 1994), which earned an award from the Educational Press Association of American, "Navajo Mothers and Daughters: Schools, Jobs, and the Family" in Anthropology & Educational Quarterly (with F. Margonis, 1995) and "Research in American Indian and Alaska Native Education: From Assimilation to Self-Determination" in Review of Research in Education (with K. Swisher, 1997). Most recently, with L. Parker, S. Villenas, and K. Nebeker, she was a coeditor of a special issue on Critical Race Theory and educational" in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (1998), and with Parker and Villenas she coedited a book, Race Is, Race Isn't: Critical Race Theory and Qualitative Studies in Education (1999).
Donna Deyhle's Vita