Washington and Lee University
Harvey Jack Markowitz joined the Sociology and Anthropology Department in September 2008 as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology. He received his Ph.D. in American Church History from the University of Chicago' Divinity School in 2002. He has held the positions of Assistant, Associate, and Acting Director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History, The Newberry Library. From 1999 to 2002 he served as Museum Specialist - Community Liaison/Fieldworker for the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian during which time he worked closely with the Florida Seminoles, Eastern Band of Cherokees, Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma, the Blackfeet Indian Tribe, the Chiricahua Apaches, and the Tohono O’odham Nation. Markowitz lived for twelve years on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota where he was a faculty member in the Human Services Department at Sinte Gleska University. As a result, he is a fluent speaker of Lakota (Sioux). His current research focuses on American Indian ethnohistory and the relationships among American Indian landscapes, traditional ecological knowledge, and tribal identity.
