Faculty

Ann Braude is Senior Lecturer on American Religious History at Harvard Divinity School where she serves as Director of the Women's Studies in Religion Program. Her work focuses on minority religions and women’s history, informed by a long-term interest in...

Daniel Carpenter is Allie S. Freed Professor of Government in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Director of Social Sciences at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Professor Carpenter's research on petitioning appears in...

Davíd Carrasco is a Mexican American historian of religions with particular interest in native Mesoamerican cities as symbols, and the ways Mexican-Americans draw on indigenous histories and myths to survive and thrive in the “borderlands” of culture. His...

Philip J. Deloria is Professor of History at Harvard University, where his research and teaching focus on the social, cultural and political histories of the relations among American Indian peoples and the United States, as well as the comparative and...

Joseph P. Gone (Aaniiih-Gros Ventre) is an international expert in the psychology and mental health of American Indians and other Indigenous peoples. A professor at Harvard University, he has collaborated with tribal communities for nearly 30 years to...

Eric Henson is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and has been a research fellow/affiliate with the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development ("Harvard Project") since 1998. Mr. Henson teaches the Native Americans in the Twenty-First Century...

Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) was born and raised in Ferndale, Washington and spent a number of years in Palm Springs and Riverside, California, Portland, Oregon, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In Portland he studied and taught...

Joseph P. Kalt is the Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Along with Profs. Stephen Cornell and Manley Begay of The University of Arizona, he directs the Harvard...

Shawon Kinew is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University and a Shutzer Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute. Kinew is an art historian of early modern Southern Europe with a specialization...

Matthew Liebmann is a Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. His research interests include the archaeology of the Southwest U.S., historical archaeology and historical anthropology, collaborative archaeology...

Stephanie Mach is Curator of North American Ethnographic Collections at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, and a member of the Navajo Nation. Mach’s research interests include museum care and stewardship, museum...

Tiya Miles is Professor of History and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is a public historian, academic historian, and creative writer whose work explores the intersections of African American, Native American...

Christopher Pexa is an Associate Professor of English. His research interests include: Očhéti Šakówiŋ Language and Literature, Native American and Indigenous Literatures, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Global Anglophone Indigenous Literatures...

Professor Joseph William Singer is the Bussey Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is one of the executive editors of Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law and had written extensively on federal Indian law. Recent publications include: Indian...

Meredith Vasta is a Collections Steward at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, and an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. As a Collections Steward her job focuses not only on the preservation...