Alison
Fields is currently the Mary Lou Milner Carver Professor of Art of the American
West, Assistant Professor of Art History, at the University of Oklahoma.
She received a B.A. in English and Native American Studies from Colgate
University, and an M.A. in American Civilization from Brown University.
She has worked in the museum field as Guest Curator of the exhibit "Kayak,
Umiak, Canoe" at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology and as Education
Coordinator at the Rhode Island Historical Society. In 2009, she received
her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of New Mexico after completing
her dissertation, "False Closure: Narratives of Trauma, Healing, and
American Nationhood." At UNM, she taught introductory and upper level
American Studies courses in race, class and ethnicity, gender studies, southwest
studies, urban legends, and public memory. Dr. Fields is the Managing Editor
of American Indian Quarterly.
