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Regna Darnell (born July 10, 1943, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American-Canadian anthropologist and professor of Anthropology and First Nations Studies at the University of Western Ontario, where she has founded the First Nations Studies Program.
Regna Darnell is an American-Canadian anthropologist [1] known for her linguistic anthropological fieldwork with the Plains Cree of northern Alberta and with southwestern Ontario First Nations peoples as well as for her scholarship on the history of anthropology. Notable for her extensive contributions towards anthropology as a field of study, numerous awards and certifications have been presented in honor of her prestigious input.[ citation needed ]
She attended Bryn Mawr College where she had received her B.A. in Anthropology and English in 1965. She continued to the University of Pennsylvania, where she initially earned her M.A. in 1967, followed by her Ph.D. in 1969. Darnell was awarded the honorary degree of D.Litt. from the University of Waterloo in 2009. She was a student of A. Irving Hallowell. [2]
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Darnell has conducted research/fieldwork in Saskatchewan, Northern Alberta, British Columbia, West Africa and Southern Ontario. Her career has displayed a focus towards language, Indigenous Knowledge, social change, mobility, traditional medicine, ecosystem health, identity and the history of anthropology. She was employed at the University of Alberta from 1969 to 1990, where she achieved the title of professor in 1979. She relocated to the University of Western Ontario, working as Chair of Anthropology from 1990 to 1993 and Director of the Center for Research and Teaching of Canadian Native Languages in 1992. Additionally, Darnell served as an educator affiliated in Women's Studies and Feminist Research.
Darnell remains incorporated in the centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, in which she worked in cooperation with McMaster University from 1994 to 2010. She is also involved in numerous other disciplinary fields, including Environmental Health, Pathology, and worked in turn with the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry since 2006. Serving as a Bicentennial Professor for Canadian studies and Anthropology in 2000, this added further institutional experience with Pierson College.
In early 2000, Darnell was awarded the Hellmuth Prize [3] and was the first woman to gain this achievement. In 2004, she had received the Gene Weltfish Award for her service and contributions to anthropology. She received the Distinguished University Professor Award from the University of Western Ontario [4] in 2005, which recognizes sustained excellence in scholarship over a substantial career at Western. Darnell has been awarded the 2005 Anthropological Association's Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology. [5] The American Philosophical Society elected Darnell in 2004 for her excellence in linguistics and anthropology [6] . Darnell is also the recipient of the 2007 Premier's Distinction Award for the Social Science and Humanities [7] and the 2021-2022 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Ethnohistory. [8]
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Darnell has previously resided as president of the Society for Humanistic Anthropology, the American Society of Ethnohistory, and the Northern American Association for the History of the Languages.
Regna had chaired for the American Anthropological Associations Centennial Executive and Advisory Commissions in 2002. She served two terms as president of the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association, as well as a representative for faculty on the UWO Board of Governors between 2011 and 2015. She is one of five fellows for the Royal Society of Canada, as well as a member of the American Philosophical Society.
Invisible Genealogies surrounds the theoretical and historical contexts of anthropology in academia through the course of its existence in North America. This self-reflexive publication analyzes the indigenous population of North American in correlation to anthropology, as well as the incorporation of various renowned anthropologists such as Franz Boas, Clifford Geertz and Claude Levi-Strauss.
This biographical novel surrounds the process, approaches and methodologies undergone by linguist Edward Sapir. This entails his research findings, incorporation of fieldwork, and associated theoretical framework included within his experiences. These are correlated to Darnell's own, including her personal perspectives and experiences in relation.
This collection of articles produced by over 25 prestigious anthropologists comprises a novel summarizing contemporary perspectives on the contributions of anthropology as a discipline. The book surrounds the history of anthropology, linguistics, and Native American past.
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