Morris W. Foster
Background
Born January 28, l960 in Alva, Oklahoma
Attended public schools in Alva and Stillwater, Oklahoma
Education
1988 Ph.D., Yale University
1984 M.Phil., Yale University
l981 B.A. with Distinction, University of Oklahoma
Honors and Scholarships
1992 Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize for Best Book in Ethnohistory, American Society for Ethnohistory
1981-1984 Graduate School Fellowship, Yale University
1981 Phi Beta Kappa, University of Oklahoma
1978-1979 University Scholar, University of Oklahoma
Academic Employment
2001-present Associate Member, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
2000-present Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
1998-present Adjunct Associate Professor of Native American Studies, University of Oklahoma
1995-present Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma
1995-present Faculty Fellow, Science and Public Policy Program,
University of Oklahoma
1989-1995 Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma
1987-1988 Instructor, University of Oklahoma
1986-1987 Adjunct Instructor, University of Oklahoma
1982-1984 Teaching Fellow, Yale University
Fieldwork Experience
1999-present African American communities in Oklahoma
1997-present Choctaw community
1991-present Plains Apache community
1987-present Creek, Seminole, and Yuchi communities
1984-present Comanche community
Editorial Experience
1993-1997 Editor, American Indian Quarterly
Books
1991 Being Comanche: A Social History of an American Indian Community .
Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Book Chapters and Journal Articles
Submitted Foster MW, Sharp RR. Genetic research with minority populations. Prepared for Race and Research in Focus: Perspectives of Minority Participation in Health Research , Bettina M. Beech and Maurine Goodman (editors), American Public Health Association Monograph Series (expected publication July 2001).
In Press Foster MW , McCullough M. Kiowa-Apache. In the Plains volume of the Handbook of North American Indians , edited by Raymond J. DeMallie. Smithsonian Institution.
2001 Foster MW, Sharp RR, Mulvihill JJ. Pharmacogenetics, race, and ethnicity: social identities and individualized medical care. Therapeutic Drug Monitoring 23: 232-238.
2000 Sharp RR, Foster MW . Involving study populations in the review of genetic research. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , 28:41-51.
2000 Foster MW , Sharp RR. Genetic research and culturally specific risks: one size does not fit all. Trends in Genetics 16:93-95.
1999 Foster MW , Sharp RR, Freeman WL, Chino M, Bernsten D, Carter TH. The role of community review in evaluating the risks of human genetic variation research. American Journal of Human Genetics 64(6):1719-1727.
1998 Tan FK, Stivers DN, Foster MW , Chakraborty R, Howard RF, Milewicz DM, Arnett FC. Association of microsatellite markers near the fibrillin 1 gene on human chromosome 15q with scleroderma in a Native American population. Arthritis and Rheumatism 41(10):1729-37.
• Foster MW , Eisenbraun AJ, Carter TH. Genetic screening of targeted subpopulations: the role of communal discourse in evaluating sociocultural implications. Genetic Testing 1(4): 269-274.
1998 Foster MW , Freeman WL. Naming names in human genetic variation research. Genome Research 8:755-757.
1998 Foster MW , Bernsten D, Carter TH. A model agreement for genetic research in a socially identifiable population. American Journal of Human Genetics 63:696-702.
1997 Foster MW , Eisenbraun AJ, Carter TH. Communal Discourse as a Supplement to Informed Consent in Genetic Research. Nature Genetics , 17:277-279.
1994 Foster MW . Introduction. To The Cheyenne in Plains Indian Trade Relations 1795-1840 by Joseph Jablow. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, pages v-xvi.
1992 Foster MW . Introduction. To Rank and Warfare Among the Plains Indians by Bernard Mishkin. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, pages v-xiii.
1991 Foster MW . Pawnee Usage of Bundle Beliefs and Practices. In New Dimensions in Ethnohistory edited by B. Gough and L. Christie. Canadian Ethnology Service Mercury Series, Paper 120, pages 213-224.
Funded Research
2001-2006 PI, African American Community Review of Genetics Research, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Environmental Health Sciences R01 ES11174.
1997-1999 PI (Norman campus subcontract), Cross-cultural issues in genetic research
among Plains Apaches, National Science Foundation, Physical Anthropology Program, SBR9610336.
1997-2001 Collaborator, Specialized Center of Research in Scleroderma. National
Institutes of Health, located at University of Texas Health Sciences Center
at Houston.
1995-1998 PI, Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Research in Two Native
American Communities. National Institutes of Health, R01 HG01302.
1994-1997 Co-PI, Health-Related Risk Perceptions Among the Mvskokes of
Oklahoma. National Science Foundation, SBR 9320991.
1992-1993 Principal Investigator, Native American Language Preservation Project. Oklahoma Historical Society.
1991-1993 Investigator, Diabetes Representations and Signs of Mvskoke Indians.
National Institutes of Health, RO1 NR02618.
Recent Conference and Meeting Activities
1996 NSF Conference on Cross-Cultural Risk Perception, Juneau, Alaska, July 1996 (participant)
1997 NSF Conference on Research on Human Genetic Diversity, Washington, DC, December 1997 (participant)
1998 University of Texas at Houston Medical School, April 1998 (invited lecture)
1998 Indian Health Service Research Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 1998 (plenary presentation)
1998 Cold Spring Harbor Genome Mapping and Sequencing Meeting, May 1998 (plenary presentation)
1998 National Human Genome Research Institute Meeting on Involving Communities in Genetic Research, Bethesda, Maryland, October 1998 (participant)
1999 National Science Foundation Workshop on Research on Human Genetic Variation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, February 1999 (presentor)
1999 Wenner-Gren Foundation Conference on Anthropology in the Age of Genetics, Brazil, July 1999 (participant)
1999 3 rd Annual Conference on Genetics and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, December 1999 (plenary presentation)
2000 CDC Genetics Section Distinguished Speakers Series, Atlanta, Georgia, February 2000 (invited lecture)
2000 National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Bioethics Lecture Series, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, April 2000 (invited lecture)
2000 National Institute of General Medical Sciences Community Consultation on Genetic Research, Rockville, Maryland, September 2000 (participant)
2000 National Institute of Human Genome Research Human Genetic Variation Consortium Meeting, Bethesda, Maryland, October 2000 (participant)
• National Human Genome Research Institute Decade of ELSI Conference,
Bethesda, Maryland, January 2001 (plenary presentation)
2001 Toxicogenomics Working Group, Initial Meeting, Orlando, Florida, March 2001 (participant)
2001 Haplotype Map Meeting, Washington, DC, July 2001 (presenter)
Service
1998-present Member, Committee A, Department of Anthropology
1997-present Admissions Officer, Sociocultural Anthropology
1997-2001 Native American Language Program Committee, Chair
1993-present Consultant, Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, Language Retention and Oral
History.
1993-present Consultant, Euchee Tribe of Indians, Petition for Federal
Acknowlegment.
1993-1994 Coordinator, Native Language Preservation and Instruction Workshop,
Sovereignty Symposium.
1992-present Member, Arts and Sciences Academic Misconduct Board.
1992-2000 Consultant, Comanche Nation, Language Retention.
1992-1993 Consultant, Ponca Nation, Language Retention.
1992-1993 Member, Native American Language Committee, Oklahoma State
Department of Education.
1992-1993 Chair, Certification Subcommittee, Native American Language
Committee, Oklahoma State Department of Education.
1992 Teaching American Indian Languages in the Public Schools,
Teleconference for Teachers, University of Oklahoma.
1992 Consultant, Wichita and Affiliated Tribes, Language Retention.
1992 Preserving American Indian Languages, Teleconference for Tribal
Officials, University of Oklahoma.
1991-95 Supervisor, Native American Languages Program, Department of
Anthropology, University of Oklahoma.
1991-1992 Consultant, Yuchi Tribal Organization.
1990 Program Co-Chair, 48th Plains Anthropological Conference, Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma.
1989-1990 Consultant, Economic Development Office, Comanche Nation.
1988-1990 Undergraduate Advisor, Department of Anthropology, University of
Oklahoma.
1987-2000 Consultant, Mvskoke-Creek Tribal Towns Organization.