Roslyn Coriz '22 is concentrating in Socio-Cultural Anthropology. She is from the Pueblos of K’awaika and Kewa, located in New Mexico. She’s an active member of Natives at Brown (NAB) and the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative (NAISI). Roslyn's work centers storytelling, history and language preservation, and cultivating community. She aspires to fluently speak her heritage language, contribute to community archivist efforts, and learn more about traditional Pueblo farming. She continually dreams of ways these aspirations can be woven together.

Project:

As a Royce Fellow, Roslyn will collaborate with elders and others in her home community of K’awaika to create a living archive of personal narratives, historical photographs, newspaper articles, and other media. She hopes to explore and preserve the ways K’awaika has defined, and continues to define, their home through tradition, language, song, and story. Her research aims to create a foundation for the youth, of the present and future, to carry on lifeways with the knowledge of the people before them. Roslyn looks forward to growing as a Royce Fellow and community-engaged scholar alongside the 2022 cohort.

Mentor: Robert Preucel, James Manning