| Ron Carlson |
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Ron Carlson is the author of nine books of fiction, most recently the novel Five Skies, selected as one of the best books of 2007 by the Los Angeles Times. His new book on writing fiction, Ron Carlson Writes a Story, was also published in 2007. His book of selected stories is A Kind of Flying (W.W. Norton). His short fiction has appeared in Esquire, Harper's, The New Yorker, Gentlemen's Quarterly, Epoch, The Oxford American and other journals, as well as The Best American Short Stories, The O'Henry Prize Series, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction and dozens of other anthologies. A graduate of the University of Utah, Prof. Carlson is Director of the Graduate Program in Fiction at the University of California, Irvine. His awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction and the Cohen Prize at Ploughshares. .
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| Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley |
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Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley was born at Mamterilleq, now known as Bethel, Alaska, where he was raised by a grandmother who encouraged him to obtain a western education, along with the education he received as a Yupiaq child in the camps along the rivers of Southwest Alaska. Although this created conflicting values and caused confusion for him for many years, he feels he has come full circle and is now researching to find ways in which his Yupiaq peoples' language and culture can be used in the classroom to meld the modern ways to the Yupiaq thought world. Along the way, he has completed four university degrees, including a Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia. He recently retired as an associate professor of
education at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He has been president and CEO of a Native corporation, executive director of a non-profit corporation.and co-director of the Alaska Rural Systemic Initiative. He sits on the Alaska Native Science Commission.
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| Helen Longino |
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Helen Longino received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from The Johns Hopkins University. Her teaching and research interests are in philosophy of science, social epistemology, and feminist philosophy. She is particularly interested in the relations between scientific inquiry and its social, cultural, and economic contexts. Longino is the author of Science As Social Knowledge (Princeton University Press, 1990), The Fate of Knowledge (Princeton University Press, 2001), many articles in the philosophy of science, feminist philosophy and epistemology, and co-editor of Scientific Pluralism (University of Minnesota Press, 2007). Her recent research analyzes differences and commonalities in four approaches in the sciences of human behavior. She has presented aspects of this work at professional meetings, as well as in book chapters and journal articles. Longino has taught at UC San Diego, Mills College, Rice University, the University of Minnesota, and is currently Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. |
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