Philip J. Deloria

Philip J. Deloria (Ph.D. Yale University, 1994, American Studies) is Professor in the Department of History, the Program in American Culture, and the Native American Studies program at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Indians in Unexpected Places (2004) and Playing Indian (1998), and the co-editor (with Neal Salisbury) of the Blackwell Companion to American Indian History (2002). Deloria was the president of the American Studies Association (May 2008-May 2009) and a member of the governing council of the Organization of American Historians. He is the winner of the John C. Ewers Prize in Ethnohistory, Western History Association, 2006 (for Indians in Unexpected Places) and a Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Program for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, 1999 (for Playing Indian). Deloria is a member of the Society of American Historians, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Michigan Society of Fellows. His specific interests in United States cultural history include American Indians, environmental history, and western and Midwestern regionalisms.