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Mr. Runnels came to Dartmouth as the 1996-97 Charles Eastman PhD Fellow in Native American Studies. A Native scholar with wide-ranging experience in concerns of American Indian peoples, Dan speaks Salish, Spanish, and English. He has studied and understands the oral traditions and historical past of the indigenous peoples of North America.
Dan has joined our Native American Studies faculty as visiting instructor, and continues as a staff member of our program. The courses he will be teaching include NAS 7, the Freshmen Seminar; and NAS 40, "Introductory Native American Language." He also teaches courses in the Spanish Department and the Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies Program.
Dan is a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington in the Department of Romance Languages in the field of Colonial literature and Native American authors. His dissertation covers Amerindian representation in Colonial Peru and in particular, the manuscript of Gauman Poma. From 1963 - 1986, Dan lived, traveled and worked throughout Latin America in various capacities, including ship captain, river pilot, ship builder and explorer.
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