David E. Wilkins

	David E. Wilkins (Lumbee), holds the McKnight Presidential Professorship in American Indian Studies, and has adjunct appointments in Political Science, Law, and American Studies at the University of Minnesota/Twin Cities. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill in December, 1990.  His research interests include indigenous politics and governance, federal Indian policy development, judicial policy-making, comparative politics (Indigenous political development), and intergovernmental relations.  He is married to Evelyn Donald (Navajo) and they have three children, Sion, Niltooli, and Nazhone.
	He has written a number of articles and published ten books, the most recent of which include a revised edition of American Indian Politics and the American Political System (2007) and an edited volume, On the Drafting of Tribal Constitutions, by Felix S. Cohen (2007).