Philip J. Deloria

Philip Joseph Deloria is a historian who specializes in Native American, Western American, and environmental history. He is the son of scholar Vine Deloria, Jr., and the great nephew of ethnologist Ella Deloria.[2] Deloria is the author of the award-winning books, Playing Indian (1999) and Indians in Unexpected Places (2004), among others. Deloria received his Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University and currently teaches in the Department of History at Harvard University.[1]

For the policy advocate and political consultant, see Philip S. Deloria.
Philip J. Deloria
BornPhilip Joseph Deloria
(1959-02-27) February 27, 1959
United States
OccupationProfessor, Historian
LanguageEnglish
Alma materUniversity of Colorado, B.M.E., M.A.; Yale University, PhD (1994)[1]
SubjectNative American history, Native American studies
Notable worksPlaying Indian

Indians in Unexpected Places

Becoming Mary Sully
RelativesVine Deloria Jr., father; Mary Sully, great-aunt

Family background

Deloria is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe,[3] and the son of Barbara and Vine Deloria Jr.. His father Vine was a scholar, writer, and activist for Native American rights who earned national recognition for his 1969 book, Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto.[4] Philip J. Deloria's paternal great aunt Ella Deloria worked as an ethnologist, and Ella's sister Mary Sully was an artist.[5] Deloria's grandfather, Vine Deloria Sr. and great grandfather Philip Joseph Deloria, also known as Thípi Sápa, were Episcopal priests.[6][7] Philip J. Deloria is also the great-great grandson of U.S Army officer and painter Alfred Sully, and the great-great-great-grandson of painter Thomas Sully.[6][8]

Education and career

Deloria graduated from the University of Colorado in 1982 with a B.M.E. in music education.[9] In 1988, Deloria completed his M.A. in journalism and mass communications at the University of Colorado, as well.[9] Deloria received his Ph.D. in American studies from Yale University in 1994.[10] Deloria worked as a professor at the University of Colorado in the Department of History from 1994 to 2000, before taking up a professorship at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in both the Department of American Culture and the Department of History.[9] Deloria was the associate dean of undergraduate education in the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor's College of Literature Science and the Arts and was the Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor.[10] In 2018 he was made the first tenured professor of Native American history at Harvard University.

Published works

Deloria is the author of two non-fiction books and a number of articles and book chapters.

Deloria's 1998 text, Playing Indian, addresses the historical phenomenon of "playing Indian", whereby non-Native people in the United States construct national and personal identities through the performance of Indian dress and ritual. Playing Indian won the 1999 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Program for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America.[11]

Deloria's second book, Indians in Unexpected Places (2004), explores stereotypes of Native American people which confine them to the past and analyzes the seeming disunity between Indian people and modernity. Indians in Unexpected Places received the John C. Ewers Prize for Ethnohistorical Writing in 2006 from the Western History Association.[12]

Deloria additionally produced, directed, and edited PBS program Eyanopapi: Heart of the Sioux.[13]

List of selected works
  • Playing Indian. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0-300-08067-4.
  • Indians in Unexpected Places. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. ISBN 978-0-7006-1459-2.
  • Blackwell Companion to American Indian History, ed. Boston: Blackwell Publishers, 2002. ISBN 978-1405121316
  • C.G. Jung and the Sioux Traditions: Dreams, Visions, Nature, and the Primitive, ed. New Orleans: Spring Journal Press, 2009.
  • Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019.

References
  1. "Philip J. Deloria". U-M LSA American Culture. University of Michigan. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  2. "The Making of Philip J. Deloria | Magazine | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
  3. Harjo, Suzan Shown, ed. (2014). Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations. Penguin Random House. ISBN 9781588344793.
  4. "Facts on File History Database". Retrieved 8 May 2014.
  5. "Native American women artists finally get their due in new Minneapolis exhibition". www.theartnewspaper.com. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  6. "Ella Deloria Archive". Retrieved 8 May 2014.
  7. "The US-Dakota War of 1862". Retrieved 8 May 2014.
  8. "Journal of San Diego History". Retrieved 8 May 2014.
  9. "Philip Deloria, CV". Archived from the original on 18 October 2014. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
  10. "University of Michigan". Retrieved 8 May 2014.
  11. "Library Thing". Retrieved 8 May 2014.
  12. "Western History Association". Retrieved 8 May 2014.
  13. "UPenn Libraries". Retrieved 8 May 2014.
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