Visiting Scholars
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Tarisa Little
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Departments of History, Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, and the Cogut Institute for the HumanitiesTarisa Little is Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History and the Cogut Institute for the Humanities. She is a Settler and works with members of the Wyandot of Anderdon Nation. Her research focuses on Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing. Her current projects focus on Wendat/Wandat witches and Wendat/Wandat engagement (forced and voluntary) with Western-style schooling. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada and was a visiting professor for two years at Colgate University in the Native American Studies Program.
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Nitana Hicks Greendeer
Visiting InstructorResearch Interests Culture-based education and culturally appropriate curricular models, language education and Indian Education -
Laura Pensa
Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, Hispanic StudiesLaura Pensa holds a degree in Anthropology from the Universidad de Buenos Aires and a PhD in Romance Languages and Literature from the University of Michigan, with a focus on Colonial Latin America and Indigenous Studies. She is interested in insurgent Indigenous groups of the South American lowlands, historical writing, critical cartography, and contemporary Latin American literature. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania (2023-2024) and is currently a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University (2024-2026).
John Carter Brown Library Fellows
Additionally, each year the John Carter Brown Library hosts numerous short and long-term fellows whose research directly engages with Native American and Indigenous Studies. View the Library's Fellows Directory below.