Biography

Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert is enrolled with the Hopi Tribe from the Village of Upper Moencopi in northeastern Arizona. Centering his research and teaching on Native American history and the history of the West, Professor Sakiestewa Gilbert examines the history of American Indian education, the Indian boarding school experience, and American Indians and sports. In addition to publishing articles on Hopi history and producing a documentary film - Beyond the Mesas - on the Hopi boarding school experience, Professor Sakiestewa Gilbert has completed a book entitled Education beyond the Mesas: Hopi Students at Sherman Institute, 1902-1929, which is forthcoming with the University of Nebraska Press in October 2010. Along with his scholarship on the history of American Indian and Hopi education, Professor Sakiestewa Gilbert is writing a second monograph on the history of Hopi long distance running and the American sport republic. Prior to his current post in American Indian Studies & History, Professor Sakiestewa Gilbert served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and as an adjunct faculty in history at the University of Redlands, Azusa Pacific University, San Bernardino Valley Community College, and The Master’s College.

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