Academics

Consistent with the Harvard University Charter of 1650 calling for the "education of English and Indian youth," HUNAP has developed partnerships with established faculties at Harvard to build viable programs of research, teaching, and outreach on issues affecting the lives of Indigenous peoples.

Faculty

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Ann Braude

Senior Lecturer on American Religious History at Harvard Divinity School
Director of the Women's Studies in Religion Program
Dan Carpenter

Dan Carpenter

Allie S. Freed Professor of Government in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Director of Social Sciences at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
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Davíd Carrasco

Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America
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Joseph Gone

Faculty Director of HUNAP
Professor of Anthropology and of Global Health and Social Medicine
Joseph Kalt

Joseph Kalt

Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government
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Shawon Kinew

Assistant Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture
Shutzer Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute
Matt Liebmann

Matt Liebmann

Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Anthropology
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Featured HUNAP Faculty Courses

HIST 1015 Native American Women: History and Myth

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2021

Tiya Miles
Teaching Fellow: Sarah Sadlier
Tuesday/Thursday, 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM ET

This combined lecture/discussion course explores histories of women from diverse Indigenous nations within the current boundaries of the United States. The course traces multiple themes that intersect Native women’s lives: concepts of family and intimate relationships; spiritual understandings and notions of tradition; gender roles and cross-cultural gender difference; processes and kinds of colonialism, conceptions of land and effects of land dispossession; cultural negotiation, change, and...

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DEV 501M Native Americans in the 21st Century: Nation Building I

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2021

Joe Kalt
January Term, 1/12, 1/13, 1/14, 1/15

This course examines the challenges that contemporary Native American tribes and nations face as they endeavor to rebuild their communities, strengthen their cultures, and support their citizens. The range of issues that Native leaders and policymakers confront is wide and encompass political sovereignty, economic development, constitutional reform, cultural promotion, land and water rights, religious freedom, health and social welfare, and education. Because the challenges are broad and comprehensive, the course emphasizes the...

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HIST 97P "What is Indigenous History?"

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2021

Phil Deloria
Sophomore Tutorial, History Department
Wednesdays, 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM ET

What is it to be Indigenous?  Is indigeneity a contemporary political formation, the product of centuries of colonial and imperial incursions into the lands of others?  Is it an aboriginal, autochthonous presence that has existed from ancient time, with a continuity based on both survival and self-possession?  Or something else entirely?  While many first peoples prefer culturally specific identities over the general term indigenous, others embrace Indigeneity...

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Nation Building Course

As part of this mission, HUNAP funded the Nation Building II graduate course offered through the Kennedy School of Government and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Over the last several years, more than 80 Nation Building II Projects have been performed on behalf of tribes and tribal organizations.

Course Information & Past Projects