Abbott, Cliff | Christensen, Rosemary | Poupart, Lisa | Sweet, Denise

Rosemary Christensen Position: Assistant Professor Office: TH 383 Phone: 465.2158 Email: christer@uwgb.edu

Born on the Bad River Reservation in Wisconsin, the village of her mother and enrolled in the village of her father, the daughter of two Bird clans, she has a Masters degree from Harvard University and an ED.D from University of Minnesota. Her dissertation is entitled: Anishinaabeg medicine wheel leadership.

In addition to teaching, Christensen is experienced as an administrator, curriculum developer, planner, writer, researcher and Indian education advocate. She is a founding member of the National Indian Education Association, and in recent years, with colleagues, worked with the Ojibwe language, writing and producing 5 units for family use. Presently she is working on a model promoting an American Indian learning and teaching style centered on core A.I. values and elder epistemology, assisting Medicine Elders in curriculum for teaching Ojibwe orally-based life lessons and working with UWGB colleagues in fusing First Nation Studies into Teacher education toward the goal of systemic change in how k-12 teachers provide information about American Indians in their classrooms.