Associate Professor
DANRD/CRCD/UAF
319 Brooks Bldg
P.O. Box 756500
Fairbanks, AK 99775-6500
(907) 474-1539 (office)
(907) 474-6325 (fax)
tjohn@alaska.edu
 

EDUCATION:

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.
 

PROFESSIONAL  BACKGROUND:

Present            Associate Professor of Alaska Native Studies and Rural Development, University of Alaska Fairbanks

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
 

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
 

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
 

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.