Eastman

Dr. Eastman is an associate professor of anthropology at Western Carolina University and director of the Cherokee Studies Program. She received her Ph.D. from the UNC-Chapel Hill. Her research interests include Native American societies of the Southeastern United States, particularly community organization, gender relations, pottery analysis, and culture contact studies. She is working with Roseanna Belt, director of WCU’s Cherokee Center, on a Cherokee Language Preservation Grant from the Cherokee Cultural Preservation Foundation and is an active member of the Cherokee Language Revitalization Committee. In the summer of 2003 she was elected president of the North Carolina Chapter of the Trail of Tears Association.