Education Speakers HENRIETTA MANN GARY L. ROBERTS ALBERT HERNÁNDEZ
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Education Speakers HENRIETTA MANN Dr. Henri Mann is Tsistsistas enrolled with the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes and she is the founding President of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College. Dr. Mann was the first individual to occupy the Endowed Chair in Native American Studies at Montana State University, Bozeman, where she is Professor Emerita and continues to serve as Special Assistant to the President. For the greater part of twenty-eight years, she was employed at the University of Montana, Missoula where she was Director/Professor of Native American Studies. She was also the National Coordinator of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act Coalition for the Association on American Indian Affairs. In 1991, Rolling Stone Magazine named Dr. Mann as one of the ten leading professors in the nation. She has published the book Cheyenne and Arapaho Education: 1871-1982, and has been an interviewee and consultant for several television and movie productions which include: In the White Man’s Image, How the West Was Lost, Paha Sapa: Struggle for the Black Hills, and Last of the Dogmen. Dr. Mann has lectured throughout the United States, and in Mexico, Canada, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Spain, Belgium, and The Netherlands. GARY L. ROBERTS Dr. Gary L. Roberts, Emeritus Professor of History, Abraham Baldwin College, Tifton, Georgia, has studied the Sand Creek Massacre for more than fifty years. He has published widely on the American West and continues to work on what will hopefully be his own book on Sand Creek. He has worked with various groups, including the National Park Service, the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, and other organizations and individuals, in relation to Sand Creek. Pursuant to actions of the 2012 General Conference, Roberts was chosen to research the involvement of Colonel John M. Chivington, Colorado Governor John Evans, and the Methodist Church as an institution, and other social, political, and religious leaders of the time, in the Sand Creek Massacre. Roberts will submit his fully-documented findings in writing to the committee charged with reporting to the 2016 General Conference. In addition to his knowledge of Sand Creek and its principal figures, Roberts is himself a Methodist. He teaches the Searchers Sunday School class at First United Methodist Church in Tifton, Georgia, and serves as a member of the Committee on Ordained Ministry for the Valdosta District of the South Georgia Conference. ALBERT HERNÁNDEZ Dr. Albert Hernández has served as Academic Vice President and Dean of the Faculty at Iliff School of Theology since 2009 and as a member of the faculty since 2001. He served as Iliff’s interim president and chief executive officer from May 2012 through July 2013. His teaching areas include the history of Christianity from the Medieval to the Early Modern periods. His research interests include the history of Muslim and Christian relations beginning with the Crusades, the problem of religious diversity in medieval and early modern Spain, and the role of mystical movements and pneumatology in Christian history. Hernández is the author of Subversive Fire: The Untold Story of Pentecost, (Emeth Press, 2010). He has also served on the advisory board of the Hispanic Theological Initiative, located at Princeton Theological Seminary. His most recent book, The Quest for the Historical Satan (Fortress Press, 2011), co-authored with Miguel De La Torre, explores the history of Satan and the problem of evil in the history of Christianity. .