Educational Career
Deer has taught in the School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison since 1977, currently holding the title of Distinguished Lecturer. She is also currently the director of the American Indian Studies Department at UW–Madison. During her tenure, she co-founded Milwaukee's Indian Community School and created the first program to provide social work training on Native American reservations. After taking four years off from 1993 to 1997 to serve as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Deer returned to campus, where she was appointed director of the Department of American Indian Studies in 1999. In addition, she is a fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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