Patricia Penn Hilden, Professor Emerita

Ethnic Studies Department, Ethnic Studies

Office: 542 Barrows
Email: hilden@berkeley.edu
Phone: 642-6573

Finishing a collection of connected essays concerned with the cultural creations of race in the West from the 19th century to the present.  The book is titled Racing the West.  Beginning work on a larger project exploring carceral spaces in North America, beginning with the Native American "praying towns" of the colonial world and moving on to investigate Indian boarding schools (and orphanages), reservations, and last, the large and disproportionate population of Native Americans and other racialized people in the federal and state prison systems of the contemporary U.S.

Education

MA, PhD (History) University of Cambridge, 1981
MA (History) U.C. Davis, 1977
BA (English and History) U.C. Berkeley, 1965

Research interests

Native American history; the history of racialized communities in the U.S.; representation of racialized “others” in museums, exhibitions, travel writing; race, space, and gender in carceral institutions in the U.S.

Selected publications

Working Women and Socialist Politics in France, 1880-1914 (Oxford University Press, 1986)

Women, Work, and Politics, Belgium, 1830-1914 (Oxford University Press, 1993)

When Nickels Were Indians: An Urban, Mixed-Blood Story (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995; paperback, 1996)

From a Red Zone: Critical Perspectives on Race, Politics and Culture (African World Press, 2006)

Topographies of Race and Gender, co-edited with Shari Huhndorf and Timothy Reiss, Annals of Scholarship, vols 1&2:  2009, 2010

Selected Articles (past 10 years only)
 "Displacements: Performing Mestizaje," in Arnold Krupat and Brian Swann, eds., Here First: New Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers (Modern Library, 2000)

"Unbearable Whiteness: the State of Oregon," in Hilden, Huhndorf, Reiss, eds., Annals of Scholarship, vol. 2, forthcoming 2010.

"Indigenous Feminism: the Project," with Leece M. Lee, in Shari Huhndorf and Cheryl Suzack, eds., Native American Feminisms (University of British Columbia, forthcoming 2009)

Honors & Awards

Dictionary of International Biography
The World's Who's Who of Women
Who's Who in the West
Who's Who in the South and Southwest
Who's Who in the United States
Who's Who in the World
Mentor of the Year, Wordcraft Circle of Native American Writers and Storytellers
Outstanding Teacher Award, Senior Class of Emory College, 1985