Samuel Cook

Teaching Interests

American Indian Studies: Introduction to, Politics, Film
Indigenous Ecologies
Appalachian Communities
Leadership Praxis

Honors and Awards

College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences Excellence in Outreach Award, Virginia Tech, 2009
Certificate of Excellence for Service to the Commission on Equal Opportunity and Diversity, Virginia Tech, 2005.
Mooney Award for book, Monacans and Miners, presented by the Southern Anthropological Society, 2003.
Virginia Council on Indians Award for Outstanding Contributions to American Indians, 2002.

Publications

Book
Cook, Samuel R.  Monacans and Miners: Native American and Coal Mining Communities in Appalachia.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. 329 pp.

Book Chapters and Introductions
Cook, Samuel R. "Introduction: the Collaborative Power Struggle.” Collaborative Anthropologies 2, University of Nebraska Press. In press.

Cook, Samuel R., and Karenne Wood."'To Serve and to Learn': American Indian Studies in Virginia." In Lynn Davis, ed., Alliances: Partnerships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Communities. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, in press.

Cook, Samuel R. "The Boundaries of Participatory Research: Lessons Learned in the Monacan Nation." In Susan E. Keefe, ed., Serving Appalachian People: On Developing Cultural Competence and Participatory Action Among Practicioners. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2009, 89-113.

Cook, Samuel R., Johns, John L. and Karenne Wood. "The Monacan Nation Pow Wow: Symbol of Indigenous Survival and Resistance in the Tobacco Row Mountains." In Luke E. Lassiter, ed., Pow Wow: Native American Performance, Identity, and Meaning. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2005, 201-223.

Articles in Refereed Journals
Cook, Samuel R., and Thomas Klatka.  "'Whose, Blood, Sweat, and Tears…': Reclaiming African History and Collaborative Anthropology in Virginia’s New River Valley." Practicing Anthropology. (forthcoming).

Cook, Samuel R. "'You Can’t put a Price on it': Activist Anthropology in the Mountaintop Removal Debate."  Collaborative Anthropologies 1 (2008): 138-162.

Cook, Samuel R., Johns, John L. and Karenne Wood.  "The Monacan Nation Pow Wow: Symbol of Indigenous Survival and Resistance in the Tobacco Row Mountains." Southern Anthropologist vol. 30, no. 2 (2005): 1-19.

Cook, Samuel R.  "Developing an American Indian Studies Program: a View from Ground Zero." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 27, no. 4 (2003): 133-145.

Cook, Samuel R. "Anthropological Advocacy in Historical Perspective: the Case of Anthropologists and Virginia Indians." Human Organization 62, no. 2 (2003): 191-201.

Journals Edited
Cook, Samuel R. Collaborative Anthropologies, provisional co-editor, 2009.

Cook, Samuel R. and J. Cedric Woods. Tribal Diasporas and Ethnic Identity in the Southeast.

Special Issue of Southern Anthropologist vol. 30, no. 2 (2005).

Cook, Samuel R. and Betsy Taylor. Academics, Activism, and Place-Based Education in the Appalachian Coal Belt.  Special Issue of Practicing Anthropology 23, no. 2 (2001).

Red Ink, Co-Founder and Associate Editor, 1993-1996.

Grants

Research and Professional Development
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities General Program Grant for the Brush Mountain Oral History Project, $6,000, 2004.

Virginia Tech, College of Arts and Sciences Millennium Grant for travel and research related to Monacans and Miners, $2,000, 1999.

University of Arizona, Graduate College Research Grant for dissertation research, $1,000, 1996.

Organizational and Outreach
Terry Lynn Poemer Charitable Foundation Grant for Virginia Indian Pre-college Initiative, $50,000, 2008, Co-PI.

Virginia Council on Indians Educational Grant for the Virginia Indian Nations Summit on Higher Education, $2,500, 2008.

Virginia Council on Indians Educational Grant for the Virginia Indian Nations Summit on Higher Education, $3,000, 2003-2005.

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