Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert (Hopi)
Assistant Professor
American Indian Studies and History- Office: American Indian Studies, Room 3000
Phone: 217-265-0180
Email: tewa@illinois.edu
Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert is enrolled with the Hopi Tribe from the Village of Upper Moencopi in northeastern Arizona. Centering his research and teaching on Native American history and the history of the West, Professor Sakiestewa Gilbert examines the history of American Indian education, the Indian boarding school experience, and American Indians and sports. In addition to publishing articles on Hopi history and producing a documentary film -- Beyond the Mesas -- on the Hopi boarding school experience, Professor Sakiestewa Gilbert has completed a book entitled Education beyond the Mesas: Hopi Students at Sherman Institute, 1902-1929, which is forthcoming with the University of Nebraska Press. Along with his scholarship on the history of American Indian and Hopi education, Professor Sakiestewa Gilbert is writing a second monograph on the history of Hopi long distance running and the American sport republic.
Prior to his current post in American Indian Studies & History, Professor Sakiestewa Gilbert served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and as an adjunct faculty in history at the University of Redlands, Azusa Pacific University, San Bernardino Valley Community College, and The Master’s College.
Professor Sakiestewa Gilbert received his Ph.D. and M.A. in history from the University of California, Riverside, and holds a M.A. in theology from Talbot School of Theology/Biola University.
Recent Publications:
- Education Beyond the Mesas: Hopi Students at Sherman Institute, 1902-1929 (Forthcoming, University of Nebraska Press, Fall 2010)
- "Hopi Footraces and American Marathons, 1912-1930," Forthcoming, American Quarterly, March 2010.
- "Dark Days: American Presidents and Native Sovereignty, 1880-1930," in Clifford E. Trafzer and National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution (eds.), American Indians / American Presidents: A History (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2009), pp. 109-143.
- "'I Learned to Preach Pretty Well, and to Cuss, Too': Hopi Acceptance and Rejection of Christianity at Sherman Institute, 1906-1928," in MariJo Moore (ed.) Eating Fire, Tasting Blood: An Anthology of the American Indian Holocaust (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2006), pp. 78-95.
- "'The Hopi Followers': Chief Tawaquaptewa and Hopi Student Advancement at Sherman Institute, 1906-1909," Journal of American Indian Education, (Fall 2005) vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 1-23.