N.A.S. Chairman

The chairman of the Native American Studies Program approved by the faculty last spring is Michael A. Dorris, who joined the College at the start of this academic year as an Instructor in Anthropology.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Georgetown University, Mr. Dorris received a master of philosophy degree from Yale in 1970. He has been a graduate assistant at Yale and an Assistant Professor at the University of Redlands and Franconia College.

He has held a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, a Danforth Foundation Fellowship, and a National Institute of Mental Health Fellowship. His doctoral dissertation is "A Community Study of the Village of Tyonek, Alaska." The Smithsonian Institution has published two of his papers during the past year.

In addition to his teaching duties, Mr. Dorris will assist in soliciting departmental support for the new Native American Studies Program, encouraging the departments to incorporate material relevant to Native American Studies in their offerings and to develop new courses for the program.