Book
Stay tuned! I have been working on a book project since May 2021 and the manuscript will be submitted in 2023 to my publisher... the book is focused on practice in the areas of collaborative research, collections care, and museum anthropology.
Comic Book Series
Stay tuned for more issues of NAGPRA Comics! Stay informed through our NAGPRA Comics Website.
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2017. NAGPRA Comics, Issue 1: Journeys to Complete the Work: Stories about Repatriations and Changing the Way We Bring Native American Ancestors Home.
Series Co-Authors are Sonya Atalay (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), John G. Swogger, and Jen Shannon (University of Colorado, Boulder). Illustrated by John G. Swogger. Journeys to Complete the Work was written in collaboration with Shannon Martin and William Johnson of the Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture & Lifeways, and tribal elders Sydney Martin & George Martin. Two more issues are underway! NAGPRA Comics explains the law and tells true stories about repatriation from tribal perspectives through applied comics. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (1990) is an important law to redress a history of social injustice in the collection of Native ancestors/human remains and the alienation of sacred items from Native communities. NAGPRA empowers tribes to make requests to museums and other federally funded institutions for their return, and determines the legal process to do so under the law. Learn more about the series at the NAGPRA Comics Website. You can view a short video of John drawing a panel in progress here. Listen to a radio interview with Sonya Atalay and Shannon Martin about Journeys here. Paper copies are available for purchase: To order a bound paper copy for $4, you can contact the tribally-owned business Tribal Print Source at (760) 597-2650 or [email protected]. This publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence: You are free to make derivative, non-commercial works based on this comic, but you must attribute its original creators and must distribute it under a similar license. July 18, 2019 Panel on "Recovering Indigenous History through Comics" at San Diego Comic Con! From left: moderator Johnny Bear Contreras (Kumeyaay artist/sculptor), Mike Towry (SD Comic Con founder and panel organizer), Paul Guinan (Aztec Empire graphic novel), Kate Spilde (San Diego State Univ.), Stan Rodriguez (Kumeyaay cultural leader), John Swogger (archaeologist and illustrator), Jen Shannon (Univ. of Colorado), and Elijah Benson (Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation Education Department).
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Podcast
SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human
In August 2018 the online Anthropology magazine SAPIENS.org released its first podcast series to explore our world in new ways through the window of anthropology. SAPIENS Editor-in-Chief Dr. Chip Colwell and I speak with scientists from around the globe. Stories range from exploring the complications and accuracy of at-home DNA tests to how outer space is a cultural invention. The podcast is funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation and produced by House of Pod. For more information, see Sapiens.org or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!
In August 2018 the online Anthropology magazine SAPIENS.org released its first podcast series to explore our world in new ways through the window of anthropology. SAPIENS Editor-in-Chief Dr. Chip Colwell and I speak with scientists from around the globe. Stories range from exploring the complications and accuracy of at-home DNA tests to how outer space is a cultural invention. The podcast is funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation and produced by House of Pod. For more information, see Sapiens.org or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!
Sapiens: Season 1 (2018)
Season 1 episodes are available at https://www.sapiens.org/podcast-season-1/. Find out about DNA tests, TEOTWAWKI, space, quinoa, being Afghan in America, and more!
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Sapiens: Season 2 (2019)
Season 2 episodes are available at https://www.sapiens.org/podcast-season-2/. Find out about eating insects, Denisovans, dreams, and more!
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Sapiens: Season 3 (2020) A special pandemic edition
Season 3 episodes started May 19, and are available at https://www.sapiens.org/podcast-season-3/
This season was a rapid response to the pandemic and how anthropologists help us make sense of what's happening. Find out about how preppers are handling the crisis, where the idea of quarantine comes from, why it's so hard to imagine the threat, and more! |
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Sapiens: Season 4 (2022) Our Past is Our Future - with two new hosts!
"Searching for sunken slave ships. Preserving sacred sites. Challenging narratives. Uncovering hidden histories. This season on the podcast, SAPIENS explores how Black and Indigenous voices are changing the stories archaeology tells. Through an array of deep dives, interviews, and storytelling, we re-center the stories of our pasts to orient us toward a new future."
Dr. Ora Marek-Martinez (she/her/asdzáá) is a citizen of the Diné Nation, she’s also Nez Perce. As the executive director of the Native American Cultural Center, her work includes supporting and ensuring the success of Northern Arizona University Native American and Indigenous students through Indigenized programming and services. As an assistant professor in Northern Arizona University’s anthropology department, her research interests include Indigenous archaeology and heritage management, research and approaches that utilize ancestral knowledge, and decolonizing and Indigenizing methodologies and storytelling in the creation of archaeological knowledge to reaffirm Indigenous connections to land and place. Ora is a founding member of the Indigenous Archaeology Coalition.
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Yoli Ngandali (she/her/hers) is a member of the Ngbaka Tribe from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a Ronald E. McNair fellow, and a Ph.D. candidate in archaeology at the University of Washington. Her research interests span archaeologies of colonialism, Indigenous archaeology, archaeologies of Central Africa, trans-Indigenous traditions of culture sharing, Black and Indigenous futurity, digital conservation science, remote sensing, and multi-spectral imaging. Yoli’s doctoral dissertation develops digital and community-based participatory research approaches to Indigenous art revitalization within museum settings and highlights Indigenous carving traditions in the Pacific Northwest.
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Selected Book Chapters
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2009. “The construction of Native Voice at the National Museum of the American Indian” in Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives, edited by Susan Sleeper-Smith (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press).
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Articles, Blog Posts, & Book Reviews
2022. Guide to Creating Community Engaged Comics. Free guide to download and use non-commercially.
2022. "Drawing Together: Comics and the Return of Museum Collections to White Earth Nation," Ohio History Connection Blog, October 3.
2022. “Dear Concerned About Consent” (Response to “Yours Sincerely, Concerned About Consent”). In "Yours Sincerely, Concerned About Consent," with Nicole Constable. Edited by Paige Edmiston and Alexandra Dantzer, American Ethnologist website, June 15.
2021. “My Cry Gets Up to My Throat: Dysplacement, Indigenous Storywork, and Visual Sovereignty in the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation.” Collaborative Anthropologies. 14(1):44-73.
2021. “Anthropology, Empathy, and the Need for More Social Science Communication." Commentary, Science Communication, May. Coauthored with Claire Quimby, Chip Colwell, and Scot Burg. Open access preprint available here.
2020. "Guest Post: SAR Guidelines in Teaching: The University of Colorado Museum Studies Program." Blog post for The Museum Anthropology Blog. December 22. Modified repost of "Guidelines in Action: The University of Colorado Museum Studies Program" at School for Advanced Research Blog, Dec. 17.
2020. “Repatriation as a Foundation for Research.” Blog post for the University of Denver NAGPRA Community of Practice website. February 3.
2019. "Trusting You Will See This as We Do: The Hidatsa Water Buster (Midi Badi) Clan Negotiates the Return of a Medicine Bundle from the Museum of the American Indian in 1938" In the Special Issue "Native Survivance and Visual Sovereignty: Indigenous Visual and Material Culture in the 19th and 20th Centuries." Arts 8(4), 156, 1-29.
2019. "MULTIMODAL ANTHROPOLOGIES: Ethno/Graphic Storytelling: Communicating Research and Exploring Pedagogical Approaches through Graphic Narratives, Drawings, and Zines." American Anthropologist. 121(3):769-772, continued multimodal online. Co-authored with Sonya Atalay, Letizia Bonanno, Sally Campbell Galman, Sarah Jacqz, Ryan Rybka, Cary Speck, John Swogger, and Erica Wolencheck.
2019. "Museum Anthropology has a lot to offer Public Anthropology!" Available at The Museum Anthropology Blog since April 22, 2020. [Originally posted at American Anthropological Association Blog, February 11; site no longer available].
2019 “Posterity is Now” in Museum Anthropology 42(1): 5-13.
2019. Forward to Extinct Monsters to Deep Time: Conflict, Compromise, and the Making of Smithsonian's Fossil Halls by Diana Marsh (New York: Berghahn).
2018. "Three Tribes at the Heart of the Fracking Boom: In North Dakota oil exploration opens new opportunities—and old wounds." Scientific American Voices Blog. October 10.
2018. “Collections Care Informed by Native American Perspectives: Teaching the Next Generation” in Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals 13(1):205-224.
2017. "Introduction: Repatriation and Ritual, Repatriation as Ritual” [Co-authored with Laura Peers and Lotten Gustafsson Reinius] and “Ritual Processes of Repatriation: A Discussion" for Special Section: Ritual Repatriation, in Museum Worlds: Advances in Research 5: 1–8, 88-94.
2016. Book Review, Interpreting Native American History and Culture at Museums and Historic Sites. By Raney Bench. (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014). Public Historian 39(1): 114-116.
2016. Book Review, We are Coming Home: Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Confidence. Plains Anthropologist 61(239): 277-278..
2015. "SIMA Faculty Fellow Program: SIMA as a Teaching Model for Engaging University Collections." Museum Anthropology Blog. December 14.
2015. "Artifacts of Collaboration at the National Museum of the American Indian." New Proposals 7(2): 37-55.
2015. “The Professionalization of Indigeneity in the Carib Territory of Dominica.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 38(4):29-56.
2014. “Museum Anthropology: Conversations in the Field.” Feature essay, Museum Anthropology 37(2): 87-101. Co-authored with Lillia McEnaney (Hamilton College), Museum Anthropology Blog intern.
2014. "Embracing the Future of Museum Anthropology." Editorial, Museum Anthropology 37(2). Co-authored with Cynthia Chavez Lamar.
2013. “On Transitions and Change: Considerations for a Sustainable Future.” Editorial, Museum Anthropology 36(2): 97-100. Co-authored with Cynthia Chavez Lamar.
2013. “Introduction to Commentaries: The April 2013 Auction in Paris, France.” Editorial comments, Museum Anthropology 36(2): 101. Co-authored with Cynthia Chavez Lamar.
2013. “Embracing the Diversity of Museum Anthropology.” Editorial, Museum Anthropology 36(1): 1-3. Co-authored with Cynthia Chavez Lamar.
2012. “On Working with the National Taiwan Museum.” Taiwan Natural Science 31(3): 10-17.Special issue featuring articles about the iShare project.
2009. “The Carib Liberation Movement: The Legacy of American Indian Activism in Dominica” in Visions and Voices: American Indian Activism in the Sixties, edited by Terry Straus & Kurt Peters (Chicago: Albatross Press). Coauthored with Garnette Joseph, Chief of the Carib Territory, Dominica.
2007. “Informed Consent: Documenting the intersection of bureaucratic regulation and ethnographic practice.” Political and Legal Anthropology Review 30(2): 229-248.
2002. “Research in Igloolik, Nunavut.” Arctic Studies Center Newsletter 10:14. Washington, DC: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
2002. “Mr. Okalik, the First Premier of Nunavut, Visits the Smithsonian.” Arctic Studies Center Newsletter 10:22-24. Washington, DC: NMNH, Smithsonian Institution. [Coauthored with Stephen Loring, NMNH]
1999. “Venetie Goes to Court: Inherent Sovereignty and Indian Country in Alaska.” M.A., Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences (Anthropology) at University of Chicago.
- This Guide was created by Jen Shannon to describe a process that Jen Shannon and John Swogger, co-Producers of NAGPRA Comics and the Kumeyaay Visual Storytelling Project, call "Community Engaged Comics" (CEC). CEC are basically applied comics that are developed for heritage and community-based projects with Indigenous communities and museums. However, CEC can be developed with any community. The guide includes information about process, budgeting, and additional resources.
2022. "Drawing Together: Comics and the Return of Museum Collections to White Earth Nation," Ohio History Connection Blog, October 3.
- "In the museum world, we often hear that Native American items were collected “under duress.” This repatriation story helps us to understand what that really means...Another lesson we learn in this issue is that when seeking repatriation from museum collections, it is good to think beyond the items alone and to ask for the return of associated documentation, as held in the museum and elsewhere."
2022. “Dear Concerned About Consent” (Response to “Yours Sincerely, Concerned About Consent”). In "Yours Sincerely, Concerned About Consent," with Nicole Constable. Edited by Paige Edmiston and Alexandra Dantzer, American Ethnologist website, June 15.
- "The IRB and the forms we fill out for research approval can make it seem like the researcher alone is in control of the project. But without the people in the communities where we work, there is no project. Collaborative research with tribes offers one model for creating more reciprocal and respectful research relations and outcomes. Community-based research in other contexts might lead to different methodological innovations and models for sharing authority. What I would like to suggest is that anthropological research design and methods can be made more effective and creative when developed in dialogue with the people with whom we work. In other words, not only theory but also appropriate methods can emerge from our experiences in the field."
2021. “My Cry Gets Up to My Throat: Dysplacement, Indigenous Storywork, and Visual Sovereignty in the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation.” Collaborative Anthropologies. 14(1):44-73.
- "Through this process of slow museology that led to collaborative filmmaking, community members seized the opportunity to reflect on the present in light of the past, and in turn through individual contribution and group discussion create a greater capacity for action to determine their future during another major transition period in their community’s history."
2021. “Anthropology, Empathy, and the Need for More Social Science Communication." Commentary, Science Communication, May. Coauthored with Claire Quimby, Chip Colwell, and Scot Burg. Open access preprint available here.
- "This is a call to science communicators and science journalists to feature social science research and researchers in their reporting, with an emphasis on anthropology and its potential to increase public empathy, improve the quality of public discourse, and contribute to contextual and narrative news trends."
2020. "Guest Post: SAR Guidelines in Teaching: The University of Colorado Museum Studies Program." Blog post for The Museum Anthropology Blog. December 22. Modified repost of "Guidelines in Action: The University of Colorado Museum Studies Program" at School for Advanced Research Blog, Dec. 17.
- "After many meetings and conference presentations to vet the guidelines among Native and non-Native museum professionals, what resulted is a succinct and useful set of guidelines. Their brevity, and their direct and clear language, is what makes the guidelines powerful and incredibly useful in undergraduate and graduate classes."
2020. “Repatriation as a Foundation for Research.” Blog post for the University of Denver NAGPRA Community of Practice website. February 3.
- "My experience has been the opposite: repatriation has been an excellent foundation for research, led to an increase in knowledge about our collections through consultation, and created a more positive and meaningful experience in the museum for both Indigenous peoples and museum staff."
2019. "Trusting You Will See This as We Do: The Hidatsa Water Buster (Midi Badi) Clan Negotiates the Return of a Medicine Bundle from the Museum of the American Indian in 1938" In the Special Issue "Native Survivance and Visual Sovereignty: Indigenous Visual and Material Culture in the 19th and 20th Centuries." Arts 8(4), 156, 1-29.
- "Perspectives and attitudes are changing about the potential for museum professionals and Native communities to work together, and towards common goals—a stark contrast to the 'long return' the Water Buster clan members endured. Frank Weasel Head (2015, p. 181) concluded his account about the return of Blackfoot medicine bundles from the Glenbow Museum by noting that the museum people—who at first they 'regarded with suspicion'—are now allies and friends. Jisgang (Nika Collison) (Haida), Curator of the Haida Gwaii Museum, writes, 'whether we are bringing home an ancestor’s remains, or repatriating knowledge, the healing is visible on the faces of our community members… the people working in [museums] today (for the most part) did not steal our relative’s bones or hide our cultural heritage away. Like us, they’ve inherited the right and responsibility to do things differently—to make things right' (Krmpotich and Peers 2013, p. 24)."
2019. "MULTIMODAL ANTHROPOLOGIES: Ethno/Graphic Storytelling: Communicating Research and Exploring Pedagogical Approaches through Graphic Narratives, Drawings, and Zines." American Anthropologist. 121(3):769-772, continued multimodal online. Co-authored with Sonya Atalay, Letizia Bonanno, Sally Campbell Galman, Sarah Jacqz, Ryan Rybka, Cary Speck, John Swogger, and Erica Wolencheck.
- "Comics and animation not only are effective for communicating but also are excellent for thinking. They challenge us to clearly explain complex concepts and ideas, using words and images together to interweave multiple lines of evidence into coherent, compelling, and engaging visual narratives. These tools allow us to move academic knowledge into the hands and minds of diverse audiences, including policymakers, community partners, and other scholars, both in our own field and across disciplines."
2019. "Museum Anthropology has a lot to offer Public Anthropology!" Available at The Museum Anthropology Blog since April 22, 2020. [Originally posted at American Anthropological Association Blog, February 11; site no longer available].
- "If the field of anthropology is highlighting 'the value of public forms of communicating, writing and publishing as scholarship,' including 'experimentation and risk-taking,' then now is the time to advocate to our peers and to the broader discipline that museum anthropology is an excellent place to look for methods, models, and literatures to do so."
2019 “Posterity is Now” in Museum Anthropology 42(1): 5-13.
- "Posterity is now—it is Indigenous peoples. They are inviting those of us who work in museums to participate in their efforts to increase the health and well‐being in their communities. So, can we reimagine the museum, alongside Native community members, as a place that enables relations and practices that support community health and well‐being, and museum anthropologists as allies in doing so? As examples in this essay suggest, it is through this collaborative work and shared commitment that our research is expanding in new and exciting ways."
2019. Forward to Extinct Monsters to Deep Time: Conflict, Compromise, and the Making of Smithsonian's Fossil Halls by Diana Marsh (New York: Berghahn).
2018. "Three Tribes at the Heart of the Fracking Boom: In North Dakota oil exploration opens new opportunities—and old wounds." Scientific American Voices Blog. October 10.
2018. “Collections Care Informed by Native American Perspectives: Teaching the Next Generation” in Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals 13(1):205-224.
- "Through examples of traditional care, exhibits, course work, and student projects, we show how Native peoples are influencing how we think about and care for museum collections. We illustrate future collections managers’ increasing sense of purpose and excitement toward working with Native peoples and reimagining the museum to be a resource for increasing Native community well-being and a welcoming place for alternative ways of seeing and relating to the collections in their care."
2017. "Introduction: Repatriation and Ritual, Repatriation as Ritual” [Co-authored with Laura Peers and Lotten Gustafsson Reinius] and “Ritual Processes of Repatriation: A Discussion" for Special Section: Ritual Repatriation, in Museum Worlds: Advances in Research 5: 1–8, 88-94.
2016. Book Review, Interpreting Native American History and Culture at Museums and Historic Sites. By Raney Bench. (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014). Public Historian 39(1): 114-116.
2016. Book Review, We are Coming Home: Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Confidence. Plains Anthropologist 61(239): 277-278..
2015. "SIMA Faculty Fellow Program: SIMA as a Teaching Model for Engaging University Collections." Museum Anthropology Blog. December 14.
- "Through teaching SIMA-like classes we can encourage university faculty to move beyond viewing the university museum as simply a source for borrowed objects for class, and we can show students that a museum has more potential for learning than just earning extra credit for visiting an exhibit. By engaging the anthropology collections as a site for research, students can learn skills in primary research, help increase documentation of collections, and highlight the value and relevance of the museum to the wider campus and its administration."
2015. "Artifacts of Collaboration at the National Museum of the American Indian." New Proposals 7(2): 37-55.
2015. “The Professionalization of Indigeneity in the Carib Territory of Dominica.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 38(4):29-56.
2014. “Museum Anthropology: Conversations in the Field.” Feature essay, Museum Anthropology 37(2): 87-101. Co-authored with Lillia McEnaney (Hamilton College), Museum Anthropology Blog intern.
2014. "Embracing the Future of Museum Anthropology." Editorial, Museum Anthropology 37(2). Co-authored with Cynthia Chavez Lamar.
2013. “On Transitions and Change: Considerations for a Sustainable Future.” Editorial, Museum Anthropology 36(2): 97-100. Co-authored with Cynthia Chavez Lamar.
2013. “Introduction to Commentaries: The April 2013 Auction in Paris, France.” Editorial comments, Museum Anthropology 36(2): 101. Co-authored with Cynthia Chavez Lamar.
- "We thought it important to provide a forum for this discussion within our respective fields as many who work in museums and with Native communities have been saddened and outraged by the sale. We invited representatives with tribal, legal, museological, and anthropological backgrounds to offer their perspectives on this issue."
2013. “Embracing the Diversity of Museum Anthropology.” Editorial, Museum Anthropology 36(1): 1-3. Co-authored with Cynthia Chavez Lamar.
2012. “On Working with the National Taiwan Museum.” Taiwan Natural Science 31(3): 10-17.Special issue featuring articles about the iShare project.
- "The iShare project, then, is an outcome of, and an argument for, striving towards decolonizing museum practice. We, museum professionals and anthropologists, have to be equally vulnerable, equally willing to be interviewed and on display. In short, all four partners were sharing our past, and collecting for the future. As we continue to build our collections of tangible and intangible culture, we are thinking of the future members of our communities whether they are part of the museum professional community, or an indigenous community, or both."
2009. “The Carib Liberation Movement: The Legacy of American Indian Activism in Dominica” in Visions and Voices: American Indian Activism in the Sixties, edited by Terry Straus & Kurt Peters (Chicago: Albatross Press). Coauthored with Garnette Joseph, Chief of the Carib Territory, Dominica.
2007. “Informed Consent: Documenting the intersection of bureaucratic regulation and ethnographic practice.” Political and Legal Anthropology Review 30(2): 229-248.
2002. “Research in Igloolik, Nunavut.” Arctic Studies Center Newsletter 10:14. Washington, DC: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
2002. “Mr. Okalik, the First Premier of Nunavut, Visits the Smithsonian.” Arctic Studies Center Newsletter 10:22-24. Washington, DC: NMNH, Smithsonian Institution. [Coauthored with Stephen Loring, NMNH]
1999. “Venetie Goes to Court: Inherent Sovereignty and Indian Country in Alaska.” M.A., Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences (Anthropology) at University of Chicago.
Selected Presentations
2021. “Community Engaged Research Design and Communication,” workshop for the Summer Institute for Community Engaged Humanities Scholarship at the University of California Merced. June 3, remote.
2021. "Collaboration is Theory in Motion: Redesigning the Chapin Mesa Archeological Museum at Mesa Verde National Park in Partnership with Twenty-Six Pueblos and Tribes" co-presented with Dr. Joseph "Woody" Aguilar (Pueblo of San Ildefonso) at the University College London forum for Heritage, Participation, Performativity, Care. Remote, March 12.
2021. “The Law and Beyond the Law: The spirit of NAGPRA” at the University of New Mexico; invitation from students in the UNM School of Law Historic Preservation Law Society. Remote, February 3.
2019. “Public Engagement: Meaning, Motives, and Models,” invited presentation and workshop for the environmental sustainability and community-engaged scholarship learning community in the Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Group at the University of California Merced. November 18.
2019. “Collaborating with Descendant Communities to Re-imagine Chapin Mesa Archeological Museum at Mesa Verde National Park,” session organizer and chair. Council for Museum Anthropology Conference, "Museums Different." Santa Fe, NM. September 21.
2019. “SAR Guidelines for Collaboration,” panel participant. CMA Conference, "Museums Different." Santa Fe, NM. September 20.
2019. “Native Futurisms: Art and Conversation about Contemporary Indigenous Healing,” invited panelist. Part of an Inclusiveness and Equity Series, organized by the Office for Outreach and Engagement and the Boulder County Arts Alliance together with the CU Art Museum. Dairy Center, Boulder, CO. September 18.
2019. “Recovering Indigenous History through Comics.” Invitation from co-founder of convention to participate in the panel. With Co-producer of NAGPRA Comics John Swogger and Co-author of NAGPRA Comics Issue 2 Elijah Benson. San Diego Comic Con. San Diego, CA. July 18.
2018. “NAGPRA Comics: Risking the Media for the Message.” American Anthropological Association (AAA). Washington, DC. November 17.
2018. “Reimagining Museums: Transforming Relationships between Museums and Native Peoples.” Ted-style talk for University of Colorado Research and Innovation Week. Boulder, CO. October 17.
2018. “NAGPRA Comics: An Unconventional and Effective Means of Sharing Stories about Ancestral Repatriation and Community Activism” with Shannon Martin (Director, Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture & Lifeways). Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM). Minneapolis, MN. October 11.
2017. “Completing the Journey: A Graphic Narrative about Native Testimony and Expertise in NAGPRA” with Sonya Atalay (UMass-Amherst). American Anthropological Association. Washington, DC. December 2.
2017. “Using Museum Collections in Teaching Anthropology.” Panel organized by Candace Greene at the Council for Museum Anthropology Museum Anthropology Futures Conference. Montreal, Quebec. May 26.
2017. “Allies in Unexpected Places: Transforming Museology through Partnerships between Indigenous Peoples, Anthropologists, and Museums.” Presentation at Oxford University Pitt Rivers Museum Research Seminar in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology. April 27.
2016. “Local Voices in a Global Play: Collaborative Filmmaking with the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation.” Presented at the Society for Cultural Anthropology Biennial Meeting. Ithaca, NY. May 13.
2016. “My Cry Gets Up to My Throat: Museum Anthropology and Collaborative Filmmaking in the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation.” Presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA). Vancouver, BC. March 30.
2015. “Museums, Tribes, and Donors: Building a Collaborative Website, Archive, and Video Documentary.” Co-presented with UCMNH anthropology collections manager Christina Cain at Association of Tribal Archives Libraries and Museums (ATALM). September 11.
2014. “Museum Anthropology: NAGPRA as a Foundation for Research.” Guest Lecture in Cultural Property Law class. University of Colorado – Boulder. October 13.
2014. “Our Lives: Collaboration, Native Voice, and the Making of the National Museum of the American Indian.” Book talk at the “Native American and Indigenous Studies Research Showcase” at the University of Colorado. Boulder, CO. Nov. 18.
2014. “Museum Anthropology as Applied Anthropology.” Roundtable participant at the SfAA annual meeting. Albuquerque, NM. Mar. 21.
2013. "Contemporary Museum Anthropology: Digital strategies for collaborative practice." Presentation at the department of anthropology at Kansas State University. Manhattan, KS. Oct. 4.
2013. “Collaborative Museum Anthropology with the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation.” Presented at the American Anthropological Association meetings in the panel session, “The Museum Provocateur: Community Co-Curated Exhibitions as Experimental Scholarly Praxis.” Chicago, IL. Nov. 21.
2013. “Museum Anthropology: Digital strategies for collaborative research.” Presentation at the dh+CU Digital Humanities Symposium on Future Directions. Boulder, CO. Aug. 22. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeUY3HDjlCk.
2013. “How to do collaborative research with Tribes: Opportunities for museums and students.” Organized and presented at round table with museum staff and graduate students at the Colorado Wyoming Association of Museums annual meeting. Golden, CO. Apr. 26.
2013. “A ‘Case’ Study in Collaborative Research between the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History and the Three Tribes Museum, ND.” Paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology annual meetings. Denver, CO. Mar. 22.
2012. “Beyond Repatriation: Forging collaboration among indigenous and non-indigenous museums and communities.” Participated in roundtable at the American Anthropological Association meetings. San Francisco, CA. Nov. 13.
2012. “Connecting Global Communities: Striking Successes, Fabulous Flops, and Lessons Learned.” Participated in roundtable at the American Association of Museums meetings. Minneapolis, MN. May 1.
2011. “Dissolving Boundaries through Online Collaborative Museology: Connecting Museums and Communities East and West through the iShare Project.” Co-authored with Chao-Ling Kuo, Tzu-ning Li and Chen-yu Wei from the National Taiwan Museum. Presented by Chao-Ling Kuo at the ICOM International Committee for Museums of Ethnography meetings. Bamberg, Germany Oct. 5.
2011. “Writing an Ethnography of ‘Our Lives’: Collaborative exhibit making at the NMAI.” Colloquium talk for the summer scholar program at the School for Advanced Research. Santa Fe, NM. Jul. 6.
2011. "Connecting Museums and Source Communities: using anthropological methods to promote indigenous voices.” Co-authored for the Society for Applied Anthropology meetings. Seattle, WA. Apr. 1. [Co-authored with Kendall Tallmadge, CU Anthropology graduate student, advisee and research assistant.]
2010. “Museum Ethnography: Methods and Perspectives.” Presented at the American Anthropological Association meetings. New Orleans, LA. Nov. 18.
2010. "Museums and Communities: The Promise and Perils of Collaboration." Presented at the Colorado and Wyoming Association of Museums (CWAM). Laramie, WY. May 15.
2009. “’Exhibiting Eskimos’ at the Smithsonian: From Objects to Experts in the Exhibition Process.” Presented at the 17th Annual Arctic Conference of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR). Boulder, CO. Nov. 14.
2009. “The Professionalization of Indigeneity: Transnational ideas of indigeneity in the Carib Territory of Dominica.” Presented at the Canada Anthropology Society Conference. Vancouver, BC. May 13-16.
2021. "Collaboration is Theory in Motion: Redesigning the Chapin Mesa Archeological Museum at Mesa Verde National Park in Partnership with Twenty-Six Pueblos and Tribes" co-presented with Dr. Joseph "Woody" Aguilar (Pueblo of San Ildefonso) at the University College London forum for Heritage, Participation, Performativity, Care. Remote, March 12.
- From Woody: "At stake for indigenous people in this endeavor are: the inherent right to control and contribute to the production of knowledge about our cultures and histories, the inherent right to protect and represent our heritage on our terms, and the inherent right to present our own accounts of our histories, pasts, and futures…and at the core of our involvement is the recognition that, as a Western scientific practice, archaeology, and museums as a Western institution, do not hold a monopoly on understanding the past and that archaeology and museums can benefit from engaging with non-Western, Indigenous peoples’ perspectives.”
2021. “The Law and Beyond the Law: The spirit of NAGPRA” at the University of New Mexico; invitation from students in the UNM School of Law Historic Preservation Law Society. Remote, February 3.
2019. “Public Engagement: Meaning, Motives, and Models,” invited presentation and workshop for the environmental sustainability and community-engaged scholarship learning community in the Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Group at the University of California Merced. November 18.
2019. “Collaborating with Descendant Communities to Re-imagine Chapin Mesa Archeological Museum at Mesa Verde National Park,” session organizer and chair. Council for Museum Anthropology Conference, "Museums Different." Santa Fe, NM. September 21.
2019. “SAR Guidelines for Collaboration,” panel participant. CMA Conference, "Museums Different." Santa Fe, NM. September 20.
2019. “Native Futurisms: Art and Conversation about Contemporary Indigenous Healing,” invited panelist. Part of an Inclusiveness and Equity Series, organized by the Office for Outreach and Engagement and the Boulder County Arts Alliance together with the CU Art Museum. Dairy Center, Boulder, CO. September 18.
2019. “Recovering Indigenous History through Comics.” Invitation from co-founder of convention to participate in the panel. With Co-producer of NAGPRA Comics John Swogger and Co-author of NAGPRA Comics Issue 2 Elijah Benson. San Diego Comic Con. San Diego, CA. July 18.
2018. “NAGPRA Comics: Risking the Media for the Message.” American Anthropological Association (AAA). Washington, DC. November 17.
2018. “Reimagining Museums: Transforming Relationships between Museums and Native Peoples.” Ted-style talk for University of Colorado Research and Innovation Week. Boulder, CO. October 17.
2018. “NAGPRA Comics: An Unconventional and Effective Means of Sharing Stories about Ancestral Repatriation and Community Activism” with Shannon Martin (Director, Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture & Lifeways). Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM). Minneapolis, MN. October 11.
2017. “Completing the Journey: A Graphic Narrative about Native Testimony and Expertise in NAGPRA” with Sonya Atalay (UMass-Amherst). American Anthropological Association. Washington, DC. December 2.
2017. “Using Museum Collections in Teaching Anthropology.” Panel organized by Candace Greene at the Council for Museum Anthropology Museum Anthropology Futures Conference. Montreal, Quebec. May 26.
2017. “Allies in Unexpected Places: Transforming Museology through Partnerships between Indigenous Peoples, Anthropologists, and Museums.” Presentation at Oxford University Pitt Rivers Museum Research Seminar in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology. April 27.
2016. “Local Voices in a Global Play: Collaborative Filmmaking with the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation.” Presented at the Society for Cultural Anthropology Biennial Meeting. Ithaca, NY. May 13.
2016. “My Cry Gets Up to My Throat: Museum Anthropology and Collaborative Filmmaking in the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation.” Presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA). Vancouver, BC. March 30.
2015. “Museums, Tribes, and Donors: Building a Collaborative Website, Archive, and Video Documentary.” Co-presented with UCMNH anthropology collections manager Christina Cain at Association of Tribal Archives Libraries and Museums (ATALM). September 11.
2014. “Museum Anthropology: NAGPRA as a Foundation for Research.” Guest Lecture in Cultural Property Law class. University of Colorado – Boulder. October 13.
2014. “Our Lives: Collaboration, Native Voice, and the Making of the National Museum of the American Indian.” Book talk at the “Native American and Indigenous Studies Research Showcase” at the University of Colorado. Boulder, CO. Nov. 18.
2014. “Museum Anthropology as Applied Anthropology.” Roundtable participant at the SfAA annual meeting. Albuquerque, NM. Mar. 21.
2013. "Contemporary Museum Anthropology: Digital strategies for collaborative practice." Presentation at the department of anthropology at Kansas State University. Manhattan, KS. Oct. 4.
2013. “Collaborative Museum Anthropology with the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation.” Presented at the American Anthropological Association meetings in the panel session, “The Museum Provocateur: Community Co-Curated Exhibitions as Experimental Scholarly Praxis.” Chicago, IL. Nov. 21.
2013. “Museum Anthropology: Digital strategies for collaborative research.” Presentation at the dh+CU Digital Humanities Symposium on Future Directions. Boulder, CO. Aug. 22. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeUY3HDjlCk.
2013. “How to do collaborative research with Tribes: Opportunities for museums and students.” Organized and presented at round table with museum staff and graduate students at the Colorado Wyoming Association of Museums annual meeting. Golden, CO. Apr. 26.
2013. “A ‘Case’ Study in Collaborative Research between the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History and the Three Tribes Museum, ND.” Paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology annual meetings. Denver, CO. Mar. 22.
2012. “Beyond Repatriation: Forging collaboration among indigenous and non-indigenous museums and communities.” Participated in roundtable at the American Anthropological Association meetings. San Francisco, CA. Nov. 13.
2012. “Connecting Global Communities: Striking Successes, Fabulous Flops, and Lessons Learned.” Participated in roundtable at the American Association of Museums meetings. Minneapolis, MN. May 1.
2011. “Dissolving Boundaries through Online Collaborative Museology: Connecting Museums and Communities East and West through the iShare Project.” Co-authored with Chao-Ling Kuo, Tzu-ning Li and Chen-yu Wei from the National Taiwan Museum. Presented by Chao-Ling Kuo at the ICOM International Committee for Museums of Ethnography meetings. Bamberg, Germany Oct. 5.
2011. “Writing an Ethnography of ‘Our Lives’: Collaborative exhibit making at the NMAI.” Colloquium talk for the summer scholar program at the School for Advanced Research. Santa Fe, NM. Jul. 6.
2011. "Connecting Museums and Source Communities: using anthropological methods to promote indigenous voices.” Co-authored for the Society for Applied Anthropology meetings. Seattle, WA. Apr. 1. [Co-authored with Kendall Tallmadge, CU Anthropology graduate student, advisee and research assistant.]
2010. “Museum Ethnography: Methods and Perspectives.” Presented at the American Anthropological Association meetings. New Orleans, LA. Nov. 18.
2010. "Museums and Communities: The Promise and Perils of Collaboration." Presented at the Colorado and Wyoming Association of Museums (CWAM). Laramie, WY. May 15.
2009. “’Exhibiting Eskimos’ at the Smithsonian: From Objects to Experts in the Exhibition Process.” Presented at the 17th Annual Arctic Conference of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR). Boulder, CO. Nov. 14.
2009. “The Professionalization of Indigeneity: Transnational ideas of indigeneity in the Carib Territory of Dominica.” Presented at the Canada Anthropology Society Conference. Vancouver, BC. May 13-16.
Exhibits
More than Meets the Eye
As the students noted in their introduction to this exhibit, "2020 was a difficult year for all of us. We are excited to be back in the classroom again, even if we have to wear masks." In this 2021 student exhibit, they asked us to "carefully look at each object. What do you see - A shoe? A bowl? A mix of random objects? We believe there is more to these items than meets the eye..." They concluded, "Each of us conducted research on items from all over the world that led us to learn things we did not expect. These are more than beautiful objects – we learned they also can connect us to prayer, to the natural world, and to relationships between individuals. We learned to find the people and their values, the touch of the artist and their larger cultural influences, in each piece." |
The Secret Life of Objects
This is 2019 iteration of the anthropology collections research class exhibit. Students ask, "How can objects of material culture help us understand the world around us and those who inhabit it?" They invite visitors to "follow along with us as we make exciting discoveries about our objects each week throughout the Fall 2019 semester— what can you discover about the lives they had and the ones they are still living alongside us?" They conclude, "This semester, we learned that while we saw the lives of these objects as secrets to be revealed, they were already known by their originating communities...As we hope you can see in this exhibit, we discovered that working together to explore collections from different parts of the world helped us all to better understand and appreciate cultural and global diversity." [Co-curated by Undergraduate students Maddie King, Aaron LaMaskin, Jacks Pastuer, Jack Piephoff, Alexis Thiel, Gina Sandoval-Gibson, Brianna Shriner, Brian Weinberger, and Jade Zimmerman; Graduate students Alex Elliott, Patrick Cruz, Ashley Muggli, and Emily Tarantini] (CUMNH, Boulder, CO 2019) |
Questions in Culture
This exhibit reveals museum studies in practice. A group of seven students taking my cultural anthropology collections research course selected items from the museum’s collections to study throughout the semester. Each week students shared new insights on their clipboards about the history, use, and meaning of the items on display. In the final exhibit, they provide two introductory panels and interpreted each item in a 75 word label. [Co-Curated with Museum and Field Studies graduate students Claire Steffen, Veronica Rascona, Andrea Blaser, Emma Noffsinger, and Jane Richardson, and Anthropology seniors Caroline Goussetis and Elise Tomasian] (CUMNH, Boulder CO 2017) |
Poveka: Master Potter Maria Martinez
[Co-Curated with Steve Lekson]. This exhibit features a special selection of renowned ceramic artist Maria Martinez's (1887-1980) blackware pottery and a series of bowls she created that show, step by step, how black-on-black pottery is made. (CUMNH, Boulder CO 2019) |
Weaving the World into a Basket
[Curated by MFS Graduate Student Jesse Dutton-Kenny]. This exhibit included five rotations of baskets from our collection (CUMNH, Boulder CO 2016-2017) |
More Moccasins! A companion exhibit to the traveling banner exhibit To Feel the Earth: Moccasins in the Southwest by Cynthia Chavez Lamar at the SAR Indian Arts Research Center, NM. (CUMNH, Boulder 2014)
iShare: Connecting Museums and Communities East and West (CUMNH, Boulder CO 2011)
Click here information about iShare discovery teaching kits. Shelley Niro: Borders [co-curated with Penny Kelsey] (CUMNH, Boulder CO 2010)
What in the World? Birch Bark Canoe (CUMNH, Boulder CO 2011) [Text panels by museum studies student Danielle Dosunmu]
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Contemporary Pueblo Pottery [co-curated with Steve Lekson] (CUMNH, Boulder CO 2010)
Igloolik Exhibit, Our Lives Gallery [Curatorial Lead Researcher] (NMAI, Washington DC 2004)
Terry Turner: Over 40 Years with the Kayapo (Cornell University, Ithaca NY 2004)
What in the World? Samurai (CUMNH, Boulder CO 2014)
[Curated by two students, a graduate student and an undergraduate - Kerrie Iyoob and Joe Orzynkski] |
Selected Grants and Fellowships
2023 Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies Grant, PI ($5,940,000), “Increasing Outreach, Access to Collections, and Community Knowledge” at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI); funds the creation of an Outreach & Engagement Planning Office including staff, fellowship and tribal museum programs, and community engagement projects.
2023 Lily Endowment, PI ($1,500,000), “Community Engagement and Cultural Patrimony of Religious Collections at NMAI;” a grant to support collections reviews and cultural care documentation and implementation with Native communities from North, Central, and South American.
2022 Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies Grant, PI (original PI Dr. Cynthia Chavez Lamar) ($2,900,000), “Community Loans, Training, and Professional Development” at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI); took over management of staff and budget in May 2022 in the grant’s third and final year after Dr. Chavez Lamar became NMAI director; developed next grant application for 2023.
2022 Lily Endowment, PI (original PI Michael Pahn) ($99,000), “Community Engagement and Cultural Patrimony of Religious Collections at NMAI;” a planning grant for NMAI consultation with North, Central, and South American communities about care of museum collections; took over development and management of program and budget in May 2022.
2021 Whiting Foundation Public Engagement Fellowship ($50,000), “Kumeyaay Comics: Indigenous Histories of California” to produce a comic series with Campo Kumeyaay Nation tribal historians and the San Diego Office of Education.
2021 California Humanities for All Grant, Grant Writer and Project Coordinator ($20,000), “Kumeyaay Comics: Indigenous Histories of California,” in
collaboration with tribal historian Mike Connolly and submitted by Campo Kumeyaay Nation.
2019 Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania Grant to Return Indigenous Knowledge to Pacific Island Communities, PI ($763), "Application for Funding Publishing Costs of Book of Primary Sources of the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History’s 1949 Bougainville Collection of Objects and Archival letters, and photographs by the collector from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science."
2018 NAGPRA Consultation/Documentation Grant, Apache Tribes, PI ($75,000); travel for 7 THPOS and 14 elders to attend repatriation consultation regarding ethnographic collections.
2018-19 University of Colorado Research & Innovation Office (RIO) Faculty Fellow, a leadership program that supports faculty to achieve impact within and beyond campus, focusing on Research Leadership, Collaboration, and Systems Thinking.
2016 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Academic Writing Residency, Italy.
2015-17 Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) Museums for America Collections Stewardship Grant, PI ($46,899); “Digitization of CUMNH Ethnographic Collections from Native American Tribes of Colorado and Online Publication of the Full Anthropology Catalog.”
2015-16 CU Outreach Grant, PI ($18,170); with co-PI Prof. of Environmental Engineering Joe Ryan in collaboration with Fort Berthold Community College, “Tribal College Citizen Science assessing Oil Boom Risks.”
2015-16 University of Colorado Innovative Seed Grant (IGP), PI ($40,900); for five months of fieldwork for PI and ethnographic filmmaker, “Documenting Everyday Life in the Oil Boom on the Fort Berthold Reservation.”
2011-13 NAGPRA Consultation/Documentation Grant, Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation, PI ($59,120); for part-time Registrar salary and tribal liaison travel, “NAGPRA: Three Affiliated Tribes Consultation.”
2011 School for Advanced Research Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Summer Scholar, Santa Fe, NM; “Revising An Ethnography of Our Lives: Collaboration, Native Voice, and the making of the National Museum of the American Indian.”
2010-13 NAGPRA Consultation/Documentation Grant, Navajo Nation, PI ($90,000); for part-time Registrar salary and tribal liaison travel, “Ethnology Collection/Navajo Consultation Grant.”
2010-11 American Association of Museums, Museums & Community Collaborations Abroad Grant, PI ($90,500); with Senior Museum Educator Jim Hakala, “iShare: Connecting Museums and Communities East and West.”
I applied for and received a number of smaller internal University of Colorado grants supporting research and student engagement, including two Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program team grants in 2014 and 2015, and four UROP assistantship grants from 2020 to 2021 with multiple students each to participate in and contribute to the collaboration between Mesa Verde National Park and the University of Colorado Museum Studies program. (I love working with students! They were the secret sauce to a successful start to the Mesa Verde partnership.)
2023 Lily Endowment, PI ($1,500,000), “Community Engagement and Cultural Patrimony of Religious Collections at NMAI;” a grant to support collections reviews and cultural care documentation and implementation with Native communities from North, Central, and South American.
2022 Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies Grant, PI (original PI Dr. Cynthia Chavez Lamar) ($2,900,000), “Community Loans, Training, and Professional Development” at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI); took over management of staff and budget in May 2022 in the grant’s third and final year after Dr. Chavez Lamar became NMAI director; developed next grant application for 2023.
2022 Lily Endowment, PI (original PI Michael Pahn) ($99,000), “Community Engagement and Cultural Patrimony of Religious Collections at NMAI;” a planning grant for NMAI consultation with North, Central, and South American communities about care of museum collections; took over development and management of program and budget in May 2022.
2021 Whiting Foundation Public Engagement Fellowship ($50,000), “Kumeyaay Comics: Indigenous Histories of California” to produce a comic series with Campo Kumeyaay Nation tribal historians and the San Diego Office of Education.
2021 California Humanities for All Grant, Grant Writer and Project Coordinator ($20,000), “Kumeyaay Comics: Indigenous Histories of California,” in
collaboration with tribal historian Mike Connolly and submitted by Campo Kumeyaay Nation.
2019 Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania Grant to Return Indigenous Knowledge to Pacific Island Communities, PI ($763), "Application for Funding Publishing Costs of Book of Primary Sources of the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History’s 1949 Bougainville Collection of Objects and Archival letters, and photographs by the collector from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science."
2018 NAGPRA Consultation/Documentation Grant, Apache Tribes, PI ($75,000); travel for 7 THPOS and 14 elders to attend repatriation consultation regarding ethnographic collections.
2018-19 University of Colorado Research & Innovation Office (RIO) Faculty Fellow, a leadership program that supports faculty to achieve impact within and beyond campus, focusing on Research Leadership, Collaboration, and Systems Thinking.
2016 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Academic Writing Residency, Italy.
2015-17 Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) Museums for America Collections Stewardship Grant, PI ($46,899); “Digitization of CUMNH Ethnographic Collections from Native American Tribes of Colorado and Online Publication of the Full Anthropology Catalog.”
2015-16 CU Outreach Grant, PI ($18,170); with co-PI Prof. of Environmental Engineering Joe Ryan in collaboration with Fort Berthold Community College, “Tribal College Citizen Science assessing Oil Boom Risks.”
2015-16 University of Colorado Innovative Seed Grant (IGP), PI ($40,900); for five months of fieldwork for PI and ethnographic filmmaker, “Documenting Everyday Life in the Oil Boom on the Fort Berthold Reservation.”
2011-13 NAGPRA Consultation/Documentation Grant, Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation, PI ($59,120); for part-time Registrar salary and tribal liaison travel, “NAGPRA: Three Affiliated Tribes Consultation.”
2011 School for Advanced Research Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Summer Scholar, Santa Fe, NM; “Revising An Ethnography of Our Lives: Collaboration, Native Voice, and the making of the National Museum of the American Indian.”
2010-13 NAGPRA Consultation/Documentation Grant, Navajo Nation, PI ($90,000); for part-time Registrar salary and tribal liaison travel, “Ethnology Collection/Navajo Consultation Grant.”
2010-11 American Association of Museums, Museums & Community Collaborations Abroad Grant, PI ($90,500); with Senior Museum Educator Jim Hakala, “iShare: Connecting Museums and Communities East and West.”
I applied for and received a number of smaller internal University of Colorado grants supporting research and student engagement, including two Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program team grants in 2014 and 2015, and four UROP assistantship grants from 2020 to 2021 with multiple students each to participate in and contribute to the collaboration between Mesa Verde National Park and the University of Colorado Museum Studies program. (I love working with students! They were the secret sauce to a successful start to the Mesa Verde partnership.)