16 Facts About Regna Darnell

Regna Darnell was born on July 10,1943, Cleveland, Ohio and is an American-Canadian anthropologist and professor of Anthropology and First Nations Studies at the University of Western Ontario, where she has founded the First Nations Studies Program.

Regna Darnell is an American-Canadian anthropologist known for her linguistic anthropological fieldwork with the Plains Cree of northern Alberta and with southwestern Ontario First Nations peoples as well as for her scholarship on the history of anthropology.

Regna Darnell attended Bryn Mawr College where she had received her B A in Anthropology and English in 1965.

Regna Darnell continued to the University of Pennsylvania, where she initially earned her M A in 1967, followed by her Ph.

Regna Darnell's career has displayed a focus towards language, Indigenous Knowledge, social change, mobility, traditional medicine, ecosystem health, identity and the history of anthropology.

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Regna Darnell was employed at the University of Alberta from 1969 to 1990, where she achieved the title of professor in 1979.

Regna Darnell relocated to the University of Western Ontario, working as Chair of Anthropology from 1990 to 1993 and Director of the Center for Research and Teaching of Canadian Native Languages in 1992.

Additionally, Regna Darnell served as an educator affiliated in Women's Studies and Feminist Research.

Regna Darnell remains incorporated in the centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, in which she worked in cooperation with McMaster University from 1994 to 2010.

In early 2000, Regna Darnell was awarded the Hellmuth Prize and was the first woman to gain this achievement.

Regna Darnell received the Distinguished University Professor Award from the University of Western Ontario in 2005, which recognizes sustained excellence in scholarship over a substantial career at Western.

Regna Darnell has been awarded the 2005 Anthropological Association's Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology.

Regna Darnell has previously resided as president of the Society for Humanistic Anthropology, the American Society of Ethnohistory, the Northern American Association for the History of the Languages, and the American Philosophical Society.

Regna Darnell had chaired for the American Anthropological Associations Centennial Executive and Advisory Commissions in 2002.

Regna Darnell served two terms as president of the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association, as well as a representative for faculty on the UWO Board of Governors between 2011 and 2015.

Regna Darnell is one of five fellows for the Royal Society of Canada, as well as a member of the American Philosophical Society.