Semester: Fall Offered: 2024 Professors: Tiya Miles & Walter Johnson Th - 12:45pm to 2:45pm This seminar will convene scholars, public-facing intellectuals, writers, and practitioners whose work falls under the broad umbrella of ecological study and care...
Semester: Fall Offered: 2024 Professor: Sky Hopinka W - 12:45pm to 2:45pm This seminar looks at contemporary and historical documentary, narrative, and experimental films made by Indigenous filmmakers and artists. The focus is primarily on North America...
Professor Therese Lautua 2024 Fall Term Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM This course offers an introduction to the complex relationship between Christianity and Indigenous spiritualities in the Pacific, including Polynesia, Melanesia, and...
Semester: Fall Offered: 2024 Professor: Alan Niles T - 9:45am to 11:45am Harvard’s beginnings included a promise to educate both “English and Indian youth.” From its inception, however, Harvard’s endowment included Native lands expropriated through war...
Semester: Fall 2024 Professor: Brenda Croft Mondays: 12 PM - 2:45 PM Australian First Nations cultural practices, cosmological beliefs and creativity span 65,000+ years, deeply grounded in the collective cultural knowledge that we have been on the...
Professor Robert Warrior 2024 Fall Term Wednesdays, 3:00 PM - 4:45 PM Religion and theology, especially Christianity, played a constitutive role in the emergence of intellectual work in colonial languages by Indigenous authors and continue as important...
Semester: Fall Offered: 2024 Professor: Adriana Zenteno Hopp T - 3:00pm to 5:45pm How might Montezuma, the Aztec ruler, or Atahuallpa, the Inca emperor, have told the story of their respective encounters with Europeans? Too often, indigenous voices are...
Professor Robert Warrior 2024 Fall Term Thursdays, 3:00 - 5:00 PM This course focuses on the ways Indigenous artists and media makers represent embodied religious and spiritual experiences in their work. In considering how embodiment and various forms of...
Professor: Kemeyawi Wahpepah Fall 2024 Tuesdays, 4:30 PM - 7:15 PM Native peoples have lived on this continent since time immemorial, yet are frequently omitted from mainstream discussions, research, and coursework in education. This six-week seminar...
Semester: Fall Offered: 2024 Professor: Hannah Waits Th - 3:00pm to 5:00pm This course explores the culture and politics of imperialism in the Americas from the early 19th century to the present, with particular attention to race and ethnicity. We will...
Semester: Fall Offered: 2024 Professor: Ann Braude TH - 12:00pm to 2:00pm Approaching 20th-century abstract art through the lens of religious studies, this course explores alternatives to twentieth-century narratives of modern art centered on the...
Professor Eric Henson 2024 Fall Term Tuesdays, 12:00pm - 2:45pm This community based project seminar focuses on some of the major issues Native Nations, American Indian tribes, and Indigenous communities face as they seek to assert rights of self...