Associate Professor
Ethnic Studies
Oregon State University
230 Strand Ag
Corvallis, OR 97331
541-737-5668
kpeters@oregonstate.edu
Native American Studies/Comparative Ethnic Studies
Kurt M. Peters (Blackfeet/Powhatan) earned his doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, and taught at the California State University Sacramento, and UC Berkeley. His research focuses primarily on the twentieth century Native American experience and Native American wage labor. He is Associate Professor of Native American and Comparative Ethnic Studies in the Ethnic Studies Department at Oregon State University. His two most recent publications are edited volumes: "The American Indian Urban Experience" and a chapter in "Indian Chicago", both in 2001. He is the director of NACI and a member of the executive committee of the rural communities initiative.