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Dupee Family Professor of Social Science and Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology
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Many of Stephen Houston’s classes concern the civilizations of ancient Mesoamerica (Mexico and northern Central America), especially that of the Maya and their royal courts, cities, visual culture, and systems of writing. All of these peoples, from the Maya to the Aztec, were indigenous to the Americas.
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Professor of History, Ethnic Studies, and American Studies
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Evelyn Hu-Dehart’s research and teaching concerns the Yaqui nation of the US-Mexico borderlands, Native history and issues of the US Mexico Border and Mexican Revolution.
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Assistant Professor of American Studies
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Adrienne's work is engaged with questions of creating Indigenous futures through higher education, specifically thinking through the role of college in projects of Indigenous nation building. She also examines the importance of representations in allowing for Indigenous imaginings and reimaginings of history, present, and future, and how cultural appropriation, stereotypes, and misrepresentations conflict with assertions of Indigenous knowledges and sovereignty.
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Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology
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Jessaca Leinaweaver's research with indigenous Andean Quechua speakers in southern Peru has focused on families, children, elders, and rural-to-urban migration. She's also published about how Latin Americans, including Native Latin Americans, are represented in Spain.
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Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences and Environment and Society; Director of the Brown Institute for Environment and Society
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Focus: Indigenous knowledge, global change
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Joukowsky Family University Librarian
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Adjunct Associate Professor of History
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Member of the Royal Historical Society
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Under Joe Meisel’s leadership, the University Library is working closely with the Initiative to strengthen collections and other resources for research and teaching in Native American and Indigenous Studies.
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
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Iris Montero's research focuses on indigenous epistemologies and memory keeping practices of the Nahua peoples, from pre-Columbian to contemporary times. Her courses "The Nature of Conquest" and "Visions and Voices of Indigenous Mexico" center the revalorization of indigenous ways of knowing in and beyond indigenous communities. She is also invested in linguistic revitalization, particularly amongst Nahuatl speakers in Mexico and the United States.
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Professor, Department of Anthropology
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Director, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology
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Robert Preucel’s research focuses on the history and significance of archaeological resources related to Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico. He began work with Cochiti in 1996 and together with the tribe they gathered information on their Pueblo Revolt village, Hanat Kotyiti, which resulted in a land return in 2004.
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Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
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Associate Director Diversity and Inclusion, Mindfulness Center at Brown
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Jeffrey Proulx's research focuses on addressing health outcomes in underserved communities through culturally-adapted mindfulness classes that reflect the cultures of the people he is serving. Although Dr. Proulx's work is designed to address health outcomes, such as diabetes and dementia in Native American communities, his work is also designed to highlight cultural methods of living and healing as a means of cultural revival.
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Professor of Anthropology
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Patricia Rubertone’s research and teaching navigates the intersections of anthropology (especially, anthropological archaeology), and history to explore indigenous and settler colonial experiences, landscape and memory, and representations of modernity in the Native Northeast. Her research on Providence challenges myths of Native American disappearance and urban life by re-envisioning this city’s past through the everyday experiences of Indigenous people. She teaches a course on “Indians, Colonists, and Africans in New England” about the intertwined histories of the region’s peoples as viewed from the perspectives of settler colonialism and survivance. Her new course, “Archaeology of Settler Colonialism,” considers settler colonialism and resistances within a global comparative framework with emphasis on North America.
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Associate Professor of History
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Focus: 18th-century European colonialism, Brazil, South America
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Associate Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology
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Undergraduate Advisor; Anthropology
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The archaeological project that Andrew Scherer directs involves collaboration with an indigenous community (Lacanja Tzeltal) in Chiapas, Mexico. Although his research is focused on the Classic period Maya, the process of archaeology has implications for contemporary indigenous folks. More broadly, he is tuned in to indigenous issues in Mexico and Guatemala and minored in Native American studies as an undergraduate, and is therefore mindful of the points of articulation and friction between anthropology and Indigenous studies.
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Assistant Professor of Chemistry
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Emily’s work is focused on understanding the mechanistic details of solar energy harvesting across a range of energy, time, and length scales. She develops state-of-the-art optical probes to create ‘molecular movies’ of light activated chemical reaction dynamics in novel substrates with applications to catalysis and renewable energy. Her work encourages Indigenous knowledge and the stewardship of Native Lands for community-driven solutions towards a just and equitable energy transition. Emily (Osage) also practices culturally sensitive approaches towards mentorship in chemistry-related disciplines for Native and non-Native students alike.
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Assistant Professor of Music
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Focus: international circulation of indigenous Andean music and imagery
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology
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Parker VanValkenburgh is engaged in Native American and Indigenous Studies through work on the ways in which indigeneity (primarily, in western South America) has been produced through colonial discourse. He is particularly engaged in understanding colonial period forced resettlement and its long-term effects on indigenous communities, as well as in the politics of archaeology in Peru.
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