Alfred Darnell

Visiting lecturer in political science

Expertise: Politics, Alaska, cultures, native people

Bio:

Alfred Darnell

Alfred Darnelll has extensively researched the politics of indigenous peoples of the North (Alaska Natives, Canadian Inuit, Scandinavian Sami), but especially Alaska's population, having completed a book manuscript on the political-cultural processes of creating Alaska Natives as a category and population. He earned a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago in 1990. In addition to Washington University, since 1990 Darnell has taught at three other institutions, Vanderbilt University, Linfield College and Hartfield College.

WUSTL Contact Information:

Work: (314) 935-7455

E-mail: adarnell@wustl.edu

Education:

• Ph.D. in Sociology at University of Chicago

Additional Background: Darnelll has extensively researched the politics of indigenous peoples of the North (Alaska Natives, Canadian Inuit, Scandinavian Sami), but especially Alaska's population, having completed a book manuscript on the political-cultural processes of creating Alaska Natives as a category and population. He has taught at Vanderbilt University from 1990-1998; he was visiting assistant professor at Linfield College from 1998-2000; associate professor at Hartwick College from 2000-2002. He was academic coordinator for the WUSTL Department of Political Science from 2002-2008. Currently he is adjunct lecturer in the WUSTL political science department. Darnell grew up in Alaska, having lived there from 1956-80. He still has family there, visits yearly and refers to himself as "an inveterate Alaska watcher."