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THERESA AREVGAQ
JOHN M.Ed.
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Assistant Professor
Department of Alaska Native and Rural Development
College of Rural and Community Development
University of Alaska Fairbanks
P.O. Box 756500
Fairbanks, AK 99775
(907) 474-5468 (office)
(907) 474-6325 (fax)
Email: lftj@uaf.edu
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EDUCATION:
M.Ed.
University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1992
Cross-cultural Education
Video Project: Yupiit Yuraryarait
Kangikegciutt
Type A Alaska Teaching Certificate, 1990
Humanities Interdisciplinary and
Language Arts
B.A.
University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1983
Sociology
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AREAS OF INTEREST
AND SUBSTANTIVE KNOWLEDGE:
Cross-cultural education, sociology, Yup’ik language and culture, preserving
historical Alaskan films, Alaska Native dance, history and culture of Alaska
Natives, Alaska Native theatre, preserving cultural knowledge from elders.
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PROFESSIONAL
BACKGROUND:
2001 - 2002 Assistant Professor of Alaska Native Studies
and Liberal Studies, University of Alaska Fairbanks
1977 – 2002 Commercial Fisher, in Bristol Bay and
Nelson Island (Salmon and Herring)
2001 Adjunct Professor, Kuskokwim Community College
2000 Director, Rural Alaska
Native Adult Program, Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies
1999 - 2000 Assistant Projessor of Alaska Native Studies
and Liberal Studies, Alaska Pacific University
1998 - 1999 Native Teacher Mentor, Alaska Native Teachers
for Excellence Project, The CIRI Foundation
1994 - 1997 Assistant Professor, Alaska Native Studies
and Theatre Department, College of Liberal Arts, University of Alaska Fairbanks
1995 - 1998 Lower Kuskokwim School District, Institute
of Yup’ik Language and Culture
1992 - 1994 Visiting Assistant Professor, Alaska Native
Studies and Theatre Department, College of Liberal Arts, University of Alaska
Fairbanks
199- 1993 Translator, School of Education, Ciulistet
Project, University of Alaska Fairbanks
1989 - 1992 Instructor, Alaska Native Studies Department,
University of Alaska Fairbanks
1985 – 1988 Kuskokwim Community College in Bethel
1985 Student Activities Specialist, Lower Kuskokwim
School District
1984 Yup’ik Materials Reviewer, Native Educational
Department, Lower Kuskokwim School, nationally and internationally
1979 Peer-Student Assistant Counselor, Student Orientation
Services, University of Alaska Fairbanks
1976 – 1977 Village Administrator, City of Toksook
Bay
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SELECTED COMMUNITY
SERVICE:
1997 - present ANHC Yup’ik/Cup’ik Cultural Advisory
Committee
1995 - present Member, Alaska Native/Rural Education
Consortium
1999 Student Representative, for the 25th Bilingual
Multicultural Education Equity Planning Committee
1998 Alaska Federation of Natives Conference in Anchorage
in conjunction with Alaska Rural Systemic Initiative and Yupiit Yararyarait
Committee
1998 Alaska Native Education Conference, Anchorage
1992 - 1998 Executive Board Member, Institute of Alaska
Native Arts
1997 Arts Standards Development Committee, Department
of Education
1993 - 1997 UAF Chancellors Advisory Committee on
Native Education
1995 - 1997 Member, Society of Interior Native Empowered
Women
1994 Rural Student Services Support Fund Scholarship
Committee, University of Alaska Fairbanks
1994 Equity Action Committee, University of Alaska
Fairbanks
1993 Cast Member, Cultural Consultant, “Spirit of
the Land Video Series” Alaska: the Yup’ik Eskimos
1987 – 1988 Planning Committee, Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta
Dance Festival
1987 Member, LKSD Special Task Force in Native Education
Curriculum
1986 Member, Teens and Theatre for Youth in Bethel
1986 Yukon Kuskokwim Handicraft
Steering Committee, Bethel
1985 – 1987 Executive Board Member, Dancing Bear Productions
1985 – 1986 Panel Member, Traditional Native Arts
Panel, Alaska State Council on the Arts
1980 Founder, Director, Script Writer, Choreographer,
Cast Member, Dancer, Singer, Tuma Theatre
year - year Alliance for Arts in Education, Young
and Young Associate, Anchorage
year - year Board Member, Silverhand Committee, Arts
in Education Committee, Alaska Native Art Advisory Council, Alaska State
Council on Arts
year - year Ad Hoc Committee, Yupik Committee, Cultural
Council, Alaska Native Heritage Center
year - year SouthCentral Foundation Traditional Medicine
Advisory Council
year - year Steering Committee Member, of the Yupiit
Yuraryarait: Agayuliyararput (Our Ways of Making Prayer), Regional Native
Dance Project
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
1999 Arulallalaku (Yup’ik song), Alaska Sampler CD
1999 Guidebook for New Alaska Native and Native American
Teacher Applicants to the Anchorage School District
1992 Yupiit Yuraryarait Kangikegciut, Graduate Thesis
Video, University of Alaska Fairbanks
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STATEMENT:
I am constantly reviewing video and audio recordings of traditional
Yup’ik dance and music which I personally have collected and documented
over 20 years. It is my personal “mission” to collect and learn as many
Yup’ik songs and dances from elders before they are gone. I plan to present
many of these songs for both educational and commercial CD and tape formats.
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Copyright © 2003 University of Alaska Fairbanks,
Department of Alaska Native & Rural Development.
