Born in Rabat, Morocco, Helene E. Hagan
received her earlier education in Morocco
and at Bordeaux University, France, where
she received a Masters Degree in British and
American Studies. She also holds two Masters
Degrees from Stanford University, California,
one in French and Education, and the other
in Cultural and Psychological Anthropology.
After conducting fi eldwork among the Oglala Lakota people of Pine
Ridge Indian Reservation, she worked as Associate Professor at the JFK
University Graduate School of Psychology in Orinda, California, and
owned an American Indian art gallery in Marin County. She has served
as President of the non-profi t educational organization, Tazzla Institute
for Cultural Diversity, since 1993. She has written numerous newspaper
and magazine articles, three anthropological books on Berber (Amazigh)
culture and fi lmed, edited and produced over fi fty community service
television programs on a variety of topics related to American Indian and
Berber culture, arts, and human right issues, through Amazigh
Video Productions.
Helene Hagan is a lifetime Associate Curator of the Paul Radin Collection
at Marquette University Special Archives. In 2007, Helene was a guest Professor
for the First Berber Institute held at the University of Oregon, Corvallis. In
2008, she created the Los Angeles Amazigh Film Festival.
Other books by this author published by Xlibris:
The Shining Ones: Etymological Essay on the Amazigh Roots of
Ancient Egyptian Civilization (2000)
Tuareg Jewelry: Traditional Patterns and Symbols (2006)
Tazzunt: Ecology, Ritual and Social Order in the Tessawt Valley of the
High Atlas of Morocco (2011)
