Faculty members from numerous departments and programs have taken part in the Indigenous Studies Working Group, including colleagues from American Studies, Anthropology, Biology, English, Environmental Science, History, Human Rights, International Studies, Language and Culture Studies, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Public Policy and Law, Religious Studies, Studio Arts, Theater and Dance, and Urban Studies.
Faculty Areas of Interest
Conveners
Hilary Wyss: literatures of Native New England; Indigenous education in early America; Native American literacy practices in colonial America.
Thomas Wickman: environmental history; Native American history; history of colonialism in North America.
We also gratefully acknowledge the work and leadership of co-founder Anne Lambright (Chickasaw), now Department Head and Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of Hispanic Studies at Carnegie Mellon.
Affiliated Faculty
Diana Aldrete: Ecocriticism and environmental humanities; Indigenous-led movements across North America: water protectors and land defenders.
Amanda Guzman: Caribbean material culture and materiality; Puerto Rico; histories of North American museum collecting and exhibition; cultural representation; community practice; intersections of Indigenous ways of knowing and institutional sites of memory.
Christopher Hager: American literature and culture; history of literacy and conceptions of illiteracy, including settler-colonial (mis-) understandings of Indigenous epistemologies.
Dora Hast: ethnomusicology; Bermuda Gombeys; legacies of the enslavement of New England indigenous peoples in Bermuda in the seventeenth century.
Shaznene Hussain: Decolonial feminist and queer theory; transnational social and political movements; land rights; international relations and human rights.
Isaac Kamola: African anticolonial theory; critical globalization studies; political economy of higher education; international political economy; African politics.
Garth Myers: Indigenous urban studies in the Northeast US; Indigenous Hartford history; Indigenous-colonizer relations in Connecticut and Northeastern Pennsylvania; Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
Juliet Nebolon: Global American studies; race and indigeneity; gender and sexuality; intersections of empire, militarism, and settler colonialism in the Pacific Islands and Asia.
Tennyson O’Donnell: cultural rhetoric; Oceania; history of the Pacific Islands.
Giancarlo Rolando: Indigenous-settler relations in Amazonia, environmental conservation and development, Indigenous ecologies and land rights.
Gabriel Salgado: race and colonization in the Spanish Empire; Colonial Mexico; Indigenous Political Thought; the relationship between (settler) colonialism, anti-Blackness, antisemitism, and Islamophobia.
Lynn Sullivan: Contemporary art (sculpture and interdisciplinary work) with a focus on history, environment, and social justice.
Anthony Trujillo (Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo), M.Div. Yale University, 2019, and currently PhD candidate in American Studies, Harvard University: Native American history, literature and material culture; the interplay between Indigenous political, spiritual and territorial sovereignties.
