I have been working in the AIS office as a research assistant and a graduate office assistant since my arrival in the fall of 2001 first as a graduate student in the Native Voices Documentary Program. I have a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems Management from California Baptist University, and a Masters of Communication from the University of Washington. My Master’s Thesis, Half of Anything, has won numerous film awards and has screened at such notable locations as the American Indian Film Festival, The National Museum of the American Indian, imagineNATIVE, and Terres En Vues.
I began my Ph.D. program in the UWs Department of Communication in the fall of 2004 and is currently a Ph.C. His dissertation topic is titled, “Camera and Indians: Performance and Resistance by First Nations Actors in both Mainstream and Alternative Films.” Mr. Tomhave serves as a member of the “House of Knowledge” Project Advisory Committee (HOKPAC) and also serves as a graduate senator for the Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS). He is also a re-founding member of Native American Students in Advanced Academia (NASAA) which hosts an annual symposium focusing in on international Indigenous graduate research.
Mr. Tomhave has taught video editing at Bellevue Community College and continues to teach native youth the art and science of filmmaking. For more information regarding Mr. Tomhave and his work is available at www.jnh1066.com.
