Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative

Laurel Tollison

PhD Student, Slavic Studies
Research Interests Russian/Soviet history, Women and gender studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Decolonizing Methodologies, Alaskan history

Biography

Laurel is a PhD student in the Slavic Studies department at Brown University. Her research focuses on the women and gender history of Russian Alaska. She applies indigenous methodologies to this area in hopes of helping decolonize the field of Slavic Studies.