Robert E. Bieder

Background

Mr. Bieder was born in Rochester, New York, United States, on December 25, 1938.

Education

Robert Bieder graduated from University of New Mexico with Bachelor of Arts degree in 1965, from Indiana University, Bloomington, with Master of Arts in 1965 and from University of Minnesota,Twin Cities,receiving his Doctor of Philosophy in 1972.

Career

Mr. Beider served as an assistant professor of history at Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, 1972-1973. From 1973 to 1974 he held the post of an assistant director of Center for the History of the American Indian at Newberry Library, then acted as an associate director, 1974-1975. Mr. Beider was an assistant professor of Native American studies at University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Chicago, during 1977-1980.

He was appointed senior Fulbright lecturer in ethnology and American studies at University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany, in 1980-1981. He also worked at Indiana University, Bloomington, as a visiting assistant professor, summers, in 1982-1983 and 1985, visiting associate professor of history, 1985-1987, associate professor in Malaysian Program, 1987, associate professor of history, since 1995.

Robert Beider served as a senior Fulbright lecturer in history at Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, from 1988 till 1989. He worked as a Soros Foundation Professor of American Civilization at L. Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary, in 1991 and 1992, senior Fulbright lecturer in history between 1992 and 1994. Then he acted as an expert witness for U.S. Departments of Justice and the Interior, Sault Ste, Marie Ojibwas, and Native American Rights Fund.

Achievements

• Robert Beider is the author of many books and articles on North American natural history, folklore and ethnology.

Works

• book

  • Native American Communities In Wisconsin 1600-1960: A Study Of Tradition And Change

    (The first comprehensive history of Native American tribes...)

  • Science Encounters the Indian, 1820–1880: The Early Years of American Ethnology

    (Early nineteenth-century ethnologists viewed the American...)

  • Kitchi-Gami: Life Among the Lake Superior Ojibway (Borealis Books)

    ("Johann Kohl was an educated, urbane, and well-trained Ge...)

  • Bear (Animal)

    (The angry grizzly and the cuddly teddy: few animals posse...)

  • Science Encounters the Indian, 1820?1880: The Early Years of American Ethnology by Robert E. Bieder (2003-05-12)

    (Science Encounters the Indian, 1820?1880: The Early Years...)

  • Orso.

    (Milano, 2007, 8vo brossura con copertina illustrata, pp. ...)

Membership

• member of executive council

  American Society for Ethnohistory , United States

  1984 - 1986

• American Historical Association , United States

• Social Science History Association , United States

• Organization of American Historians , United States

• History of Education Society , United States