Lawrence J Evers

Biography

Larry Evers is a professor in the Literature Program, English Department, University of Arizona.  He received his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and was a post-doctoral fellow in Anthropology at the University of Chicago.   Founding editor of Sun Tracks: an American Indian Literary Series published by the University of Arizona Press, he holds a joint appointment with American Indian Studies.  Larry Evers served as Head of the English Department from 1995 to 2007 and again from 2011 to 2013.   He led an NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers and has received a number of fellowships and grants from NEH and NEA.  He was the recipient of the Vision 2000 Award for Exceptional Leadership from the UA Commission on the Status of Women, the Graduate and Professional Students Association’s Administrator of the Year, and a Burlington Resources Foundation Faculty Achievement Award.  Publications include: Yaqui Deer Songs/ Maso Bwikam, Coyote Songs/Wo’i Bwikam, and Hiakim: The Yaqui Homeland, all co-authored with Felipe S. Molina;Home Places, co-edited with Ofelia Zepeda; Native American Oral Traditions: Collaboration and Interpretation, co-edited with Barre Toelken; and The South Corner of Time.   Evers produced Words and Place: Native Literature from the American Southwest, a series of eight films in cooperation with Arizona Public Media (http://wordsandplace.arizona.edu).  The Poetics and Politics of Water  (http://poeticsandpolitics.arizona.edu) is an ongoing project with Professor Ofelia Zepeda and the American Indian Studies Program.

Degrees

• Ph.D. English
• University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
• "The Literature of the Omaha"
• M.A. English
• University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
• B.A. English
• University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

Awards

• Vision 2000 Award for Exceptional Leadership
• UA Commission on the Status of Women, Spring 1999
• Humanities Scholar
• St Gregory School, Council of Basic Education and NEH, Fall 1998
• Administrator of the Year
• Graduate and Professional Students Association, Spring 1998
• Community Partnership Award
• Program for Academic Leadership, Spring 1997
• Spicer Award
• Best article published in Journal of the Southwest, Spring 1993
• Burlington Resources Foundation Faculty Achievement Award
• U of A Provost, Spring 1992
• Distinguished Service Award
• Graduate College, Spring 1991
• American Indian Studies Program, Spring 2007
• Multicultural Programs, UA Dean of Students, Spring 2001
• Program Grant
• Tucson Community Foundation, Spring 1990
• Chicago Folklore Prize, First Prize for Yaqui Deer Songs
• University of Chicago, Spring 1988
• Program Grant to direct NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers
• NEH, Summer 1987
• Program Grant, Folk Arts, NEA
• National Endowment for the Arts, Fall 1981
• NEH Summer Stipend
• NEH, Summer 1980