Brown University does not currently offer a graduate degree or certificate in Native American and Indigenous Studies. However, NAISI provides professional, academic development, and community-building opportunities for Native American and Indigenous graduate students and graduate students working in the field of Native American and Indigenous Studies. These opportunities include support to attend the NAISA annual meeting and/or other discipline-specific conferences, symposia, workshops and similar gatherings to present on or engage in Native American and Indigenous Studies.
Mark Agostini
PhD Candidate, Anthropological Archaeology Program, Department of Anthropology
Lewis and Clark Field Scholar (American Philosophical Society), Haffenreffer Museum Proctor
Research Interests: Ancestral Pueblo archaeology; Ceramic analysis; Tribal Sovereignty; Repatriation
Chase Bryer (Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma)
Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Ph.D. Program
Research Interests: Historical trauma research, culturally responsive approaches, Indigenous Queer and Two-Spirit health and wellness.
- Profiles:
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Highlights:
- Chickasaw Times: https://rb.gy/v0thk
- Buder Center for American Indian Studies: https://sites.wustl.edu/budercenter/chase-bryer/
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Recent publications:
- Healthy Populations Journal VOL 3, NO 1 (2023), Special Issue on Indigenous Health and Health Equity
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Tobacco Where You Live: Native Communities. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2022
Kimonee M. Burke (Narragansett)
PhD Student, Department of History
Research Interests: Native American and Indigenous Studies, Northeastern Native History, Federal Acknowledgment Policy
Harper Dine
PhD student, Department of Anthropology
Research Interests: Harper is an anthropological archaeologist working in the northern Maya lowlands (Yucatán), and is broadly interested in food security/food sovereignty, political economy, and people-plant relations. Harper's research involves the use of paleoethnobotanical and archaeological methods to examine local household food production and consumption in the context of grand-scale political and economic change across the landscape of the Yaxuna-Coba region in the Classic period (250-900 AD).
Dan W. Everton
MA Student, Public Humanities
Research Interests: As a historian and archaeologist, Dan works within cultural heritage institutions to decolonize and instill ethics in collection management and repatriation. His research includes NAGPRA, global repatriation issues, and human remains.
Luiz Paulo Ferraz
History Department, Ph.D. Program
Research Interests: Modern Latin America, especially Brazil; Indigenous History; Transnational History; Environment and Society; Public History.
Luiz Paulo Ferraz's research examines the struggles for Indigenous rights and environmental protection in Brazil, exploring the interconnection of Indigenous and environmental history during the military dictatorship (1964-1985) and its aftermath from both a national and transnational perspective.
Phoebe Labat
PhD Candidate, History Department
Research Interests: Atlantic History; Native American and First Nations history; Environmental history; Race and slavery; Indigenous natural knowledge and spirituality.
Ally LaForge
PhD Candidate, Department of American Studies
Research Interests: Native American and Indigenous Studies; Histories of the Native Northeast; Decolonizing Methodologies; Public Humanities; Material Culture
Dominique Pablito (Zuni, Navajo, Comanche)
PhD Student, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry
Research Interests: Identifying New Therapeutic Target Genes and Candidate Small Molecules to Treat Glioblastoma Multiforme