Krouse, Susan Applegate
(Ph.D. University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, 1991)
Associate Professor
Director, American Indian Studies Program

Adjunct Curator of Anthropology, MSU Museum
krouse@msu.edu

SUSAN APPLEGATE KROUSE, Associate Professor of Anthropology, conducts research focused on urban American Indian communities, particularly issues affecting women. She also carries out ethnohistorical research, and recently completed a monograph on American Indian veterans of World War I, focusing on their efforts to acquire United States citizenship following their military service. Dr. Krouse has also worked with MSU colleagues to investigate the health status of American Indians and Latinos in the City of Lansing, Michigan. She is the director of the American Indian Studies Program at Michigan State University.

A few recent publications include:

• 2007 "North American Indians in the Great War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
• 2006 “A Warrior Celebration: Photographs by Tom Jones, Ho-Chunk.” Visual Anthropology. 19:295-314.
• 2005 “The Well-Being of Urban Indian Elders in Rochester, New York.” with Margaret M. Andrews. American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 29,1:65-77.
• 2005 “Transforming Images: The Scholarship of American Indian Women,” In Calling Cards: Theory and Practice in the Study of Race, Gender, and Culture. Jacqueline Jones Royster and Ann Marie Mann Simpkins, eds. Albany: State University of New York Press.
• 2003 “What Came Out of the Takeovers: Women’s Activism and the Indian Community School of Milwaukee.” American Indian Quarterly. 27,3:533-547. Special issue edited by Susan Applegate Krouse and Heather Howard-Bobiwash.
• 2003 “The Health of American Indians and Latinos in Lansing, Michigan.” with Sissi Foster. Julian Samora Research Institute Statistical Papers. Statistical Brief No. 16.
• 2001 “Traditional Iroquois Socials: Maintaining Identity in the City.” American Indian Quarterly. 25,3:400-408
• 2001 "Critical Mass and Other Factors in Developing American Indian Studies Program." American Indian Quarterly.
• 1999 "Kinship and Identity: Mixed Bloods in Urban Indian Communities." American Indian Culture and Research Journal.
• 1997 "Giving Voice: A Course on American Indian Women." Feminist Teacher.