Specialties

North American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Ethnohistory, Material Culture Studies, Museum Anthropology.  Native American art histories, emphasis on Plains and Great Lakes arts, material culture and cultural performances; 18th, 19th and 20th c. American Indian histories; federal Indian policy; cultural and material expressions of sovereignty and treaties; representation of Native Americans in museums, popular culture and media; issues of collecting and repatriation; economic significance of women’s work; indigenous aesthetic systems, epistemologies and materialities.  http://indigenousarts.as.virginia.edu/

Specializations

North American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Ethnohistory, Material Culture Studies, Museum Anthropology.  Native American art histories, emphasis on Plains and Great Lakes arts, material culture and cultural performances; 18th, 19th and 20th c. American Indian histories; federal Indian policy; cultural and material expressions of sovereignty and treaties; representation of Native Americans in museums, popular culture and media; issues of collecting and repatriation; economic significance of women’s work; indigenous aesthetic systems, epistemologies and materialities.  http://indigenousarts.as.virginia.edu/