Faculty and Staff

Irene Vernon, Ph.D., Full Professor and Department Chair
Irene.Vernon@colostate.edu
356 SE Aylesworth Hall
Interests: Ethnic Studies, Minority Health Disparities, Native American Health, focus HIV/AIDS

Selected Publications:

Vernon, Irene, 2007, “American Indian Women, HIV/AIDS and Health Disparities,” Substance Use & Misuse: An International Interdisciplinary Forum 42: 741-752.

Thurman, Pamela, Irene S Vernon and Barbara Plested, 2007, “Advancing HIV/AIDS Prevention among American Indians through Capacity Building and Community Readiness Model”. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice (January): S49-S54.

Co-authored with Roe Bubar, 2006, Social Life and Issues, Contemporary Native American Issues Series, New York: Chelsea Publishing. Non-Refereed.

Vernon, Irene and Pamela Thurman, 2005, “The Changing Face of HIV/AIDS Among Native Populations.” Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 37 (September): 247-255.

Vernon, Irene, 2005, “’A happiness that sleeps with sadness’: An Examination of White Scabs in Fools Crow.” American Indian Quarterly 29 (Winter/Spring): 178-197.

Nakai, Anno, Dennis Manuelito, Wesley K. Thomas, William L. Yarber, Robin Milhausen, James G. Anderson, and Irene Vernon, Editors, 2004, HIV/STD Prevention Guidelines for America’s Native Peoples: American Indians/Alaskan Natives/Native Hawaiians. Published by Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention, Indiana University Press and National Native American AIDS Prevention Center, Oakland, CA., Refereed.

Bubar, Roe and Irene Vernon, 2003, “Native Perspective on Teaching Law and U.S. Policy: The Inclusion of Federal Indian Law and Policy in a College Curriculum.” In Teaching Diversity: Challenges and Complexities, Identities and Integrity, eds. W. Timpson and S. Canetto, 153-168. Madison: Atwood Press, quoted in 147 Practical Tips for Teaching Diversity, eds. W. Timpson, R. Yang, E. Borrayo and S. Cannetto, 20, 22, 24, 32, 41, 45, 48, 51, 58-59, 65, 67-69, 75-77, Madison: Atwood Press, 2005.

Vernon, Irene and Pamela Jumper-Thurman, 2002, “Prevention of HIV/AIDS in Native Americans Communities: Promising Interventions,” Public Health Reports 117: S96-S103.

Vernon, Irene, 2002, "Violence, HIV/AIDS and Native American Women in the 21st Century," American Indian Culture and Research Journal 26: 115-133.

Vernon, Irene, 2001, Killing Us Quietly: Native Americans and HIV/AIDS, Norman: University of Nebraska Press, Refereed.

Vernon, Irene and Roe Bubar, 2001, “Child Sexual Abuse and HIV/AIDS in Indian Country,” Wicazo Sa Review 16: 47-63.

Vernon, Irene, 2000, Native Americans and HIV/AIDS Monograph, U.S. Department of Justice, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Norman: U.S. Government Printing, Refereed.

Vernon, Irene, 2000, “Myths and Facts of AIDS and Native American Women,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 24: 93-110.

Vernon, Irene, 1999, “The Claiming of Christ: Native American Post-Colonial Discourses,” MELUS: Journal of the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature 24: 75-88.

Vernon, Irene, 1999, “AIDS the New Small Pox among Native Americans,” Wicazo Sa Review 14: 235-249.

Vernon, Irene, 1999, The Native American AIDS Video Resource Manual, Colorado: Published by the Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research, Non-Refereed.

Vernon, Irene, 1999, Review of Pueblo Children Talking About AIDS Video by Beverly Singer and AIDS and the Native American Family Video by Sandra Osawa in Wicazo Sa Review 14: 304-306.

Vernon, Irene. 1997, Review of Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee by Paul Chaat Smith and Robert Allen Warrior in New Mexico Historical Review (October): 361-361.

Vernon, Irene, 1996, “Religious Rights.” In The Encyclopedia of the American Indian, ed. Fred Hoxie, 541-43, New York: Houghton Mifflin Co.

Vernon, Irene, 1996, “Devils Tower: Placing the Conflict in Context,” The Climbing Art Journal 29 (Winter): 16-17.

Vernon, Irene, 1995, Review of Tricksterism in Turn-of-the-Century American Literature: A Multicultural Perspective, edited by Elizabeth Ammons and Annette White-Parks in The American Indian Culture and Research Journal 19 (Winter): 308-311.

Vernon, Irene, 1995, Review of The Hunt for Willie Boy: Indian-Hating and Popular Culture by James A. Sandos and Larry E. Burgess. In New Mexico Historical Review 70 (April): 227-228.

Vernon, Irene, 1993, “Textual Stimulation: Gerald Vizenor's Use of Law in Advocacy Literature,” Studies in American Indian Literatures 5 (Fall): 31-35.