Biography
Helene Hagan immigrated to the United States in 1960. She is the mother of three children. After obtaining a License-es-Lettres from the Faculté des Sciences et des Lettres, University of Bordeaux in France in 1969, she obtained a Master's Degree in French Literature from Stanford University in 1971. She is of Berber and Catalan ancestries. Her paternal family "Coll" is from the Pyrenees Mountain village of Prats-de-Mollo.
She directed a Photo Project with elders on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, with a grant from the South Dakota Committee on the Humanities, for the benefit of the Archives of the Oglala Lakota Community College from 1983 to 1985, with subsequent showing of the photo exhibit she created in National parks and at the Rotunda, Washington, D.C. She the taught at John F. Kennedy University in California for a number of years.
Helene Hagan has authored numerous articles published in a variety of newspapers and journals. Among those are her well-known article on "Plastic Medicine People" originally published in the Sonoma Press Democrat, and "Apuleius, Amazigh Philosopher" published in The Amazigh Voice, a scholarly journal which also recently published an article of hers titled "The Argan Tree." (2005) She is the author of two books The Shining Ones: An Etymological Essay on the Amazigh Roots of Archaic Egyptian Civilization and Tuareg Jewelry: Traditional Patterns and Symbols ISBN 978-1-4257-0453-7. The first book pioneered the hypothesis of a link between an archaic Egyptian culture, the proto-Berber culture of North Africa, and the Tuareg-Berber cultures of the Sahara desert, focusing on rock art research, archaeology, and comparative linguistics. The second book traces the origins and development of Tuareg (Amazigh) art from rock art to modern jewelry design and production. Helene E. Hagan was twice elected and served on the Board of Directors of Amazigh Cultural Association in America (A.C.A.A.), between 2002 and 2006. Helene E. Hagan inherited a large collection of personal papers and unpublished manuscripts of Paul Radin, which she inventoried and deposited in the Special Archives of Marquette University, with a Wenner-Gren Anthropological grant. She serves as lifetime Associate Curator for that collection.
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