Amanda J. Cobb, Associate Professor of American Studies and director of the Institute for American Indian Research at the University of New Mexico, has been named the new editor of the American Indian Quarterly.

Cobb, a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Oklahoma in 1997. Specializing in Native American Studies, Cobb is the author of Listening to Our Grandmothers’ Stories: The Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852-1949 (University of Nebraska Press, 2000) which was selected as a winner of the 2001 American Book Award as well as the 1998 North American Indian Prose Award. She is a board member of Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO), a national non-profit advocacy organization for American Indians and has participated in AIO’s leadership initiative, the Ambassadors Program. Cobb’s teaching and research deal with Native American cultural production, representation, identity, policy, and sovereignty and self-determination.

American Indian Quarterly (AIQ) is an interdisciplinary journal of the anthropologies, histories, literatures, religions, and arts of Native North Americans. Published by the University of Nebraska Press, AIQ provides wide-ranging coverage of issues and topics through scholarly articles, commentaries, interviews, book reviews, and poetry.