Vera B. Palmer
- Office: 203 Sherman House (corner of N. Main and Maynard St.)
- Phone: 646-3855
- Visiting Faculty, Native American Studies
- Tribal Enrollment: Tuscarora, Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy
As well as teaching Writing 5, and a Writing 7 seminar in Environmental Studies, Vera Palmer teaches courses in Native American Studies; several are cross-listed in English:
Native American Contemporary Literature--NAS 35/ENG 45
Native American Poetry--NAS 81/ENG 68.2
Native American Oral Traditions Literatures--NAS 34/ENG 60.3
Native American Lives (Autobiography)--NAS 22
Perspectives in Native American Studies--NAS 8
Bear Clan Texts--NAS 80
Vera serves as Visiting Faculty in NAS, and Tribal Mentor/Faculty Liaison for NAS/NAP. She wrote the grant and served as Director of a 3 year, NSF-funded project at Dartmouth that created NALCA (Native American Living Cultures Archive), an oral traditions project in NAS which prepared and arranged for students to record oral histories in tribal communities. Vera earned her BA and MA degrees in Philosophy from Bryn Mawr College, a MA in English Language and Literature from Cornell, and ABD in English Language and Literature from Cornell.
