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WSRP 25th Anniversary Conference Speakers

MICHELENE PESANTUBBEE
PhD, University of California/Santa Barbara
MA, University of California/Santa Barbara
MS, University of Oklahoma/Norman
BS, University of Oklahoma/Norman


Michelene E. Pesantubbee is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and American Indian and Native Studies at the University of Iowa. She specializes in Native American religious traditions, Native American women and religion, and Native American religious movements. She is the author of Choctaw Women in a Chaotic World: The Clash of Cultures in the Colonial Southeast (University of New Mexico Press, 2005) and "Beyond Domesticity: Choctaw Women Negotiating the Tension between Choctaw Culture and Protestantism," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 67/2 (June 1999). She is executive secretary of the American Academy of Religion and serves on the steering committee for the Women and Religion Section of the American Academy of Religion.

Professor Pesantubbee was a WSRP Research Associate in 2001-02.