People
Graduate Students
Rain Charger
Rain Charger is an Itazipacola Lakota Graduate scholar in the Indigenous Studies program at the University of Kansas. His work is centered on themes of identity, representation, agency and cultural revitalization. Through multiple projects and works, he is pursuing a unified project called the Living Indigenous Media. In this iteration, he is focused on dynamic, community driven archives as a space for cultural revitalization and preservation.
Links
Living Indigenous Media Podcast
Souliography Blog
Red and Blues band
Twitter
Shane Lynch
Shane Lynch is a second-year graduate student in the Indigenous Studies Program at the University of Kansas. Shane’s research has involved Indigenous Knowledge systems, Indigenous Theory, Indigenous epistemologies, Environmental Justice, Federal Indian Law, and Digital Humanities. Shane is currently a HASTAC scholar working on a Digital Humanities project that intertwines oral histories, oral tradition, and mapping of the Pee Posh culture. Shane is also designing a 2D pixel art video game that is based on the O’odham creation story. In the fall, Shane will continue to expand his research in the American Studies doctoral program at the University of Kansas.
Links
Pee Posh Migration
Twitter
HASTAC Blog
Tweesna Mills
Tweesna Rose Mills is from the Eastern Shoshone-Yakama-Umatilla Nations and is a second year graduate student in the Indigenous Studies Program at the University of Kansas. Her research is centralized around her thesis: Sustaining Salmon, and Our Way of Life through Sovereignty, Activism and Culture. This entails of various ways of storytelling including Digital Humanities that incorporates Indigenous thought, knowledge and theory. She is the founder and president of Graduates United by Indigeneity, an organization on campus that promotes, enhances and encourages Indigenous scholarship through conferences, workshops and seminars. She is a recipient of the 2019 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for spring and summer semesters, where she is learning Kaqchikel Mayan and will be attending summer school in Antigua Guatemala to immerse herself in the language and culture. Her main objective is to create a documentary series that would allow an Indigenous narrative to the histories of Indigenous people called “R History: Real History from the Indigenous Perspective.”
She plans to graduate in the summer of 2019 in Indigenous Studies and continue in the fall in the Film and Media Studies Program at the University of Kansas.
Victoria Kaye
Faculty & Staff
Robert Warrior, Hall Distinguished Professor of American Literature & Culture
Joshua Miner, Assistant Professor, Film and Media Studies
Dhanashree Thorat, Postdoctoral Researcher, Instiute for Digital Research in the Humanities
Brian Rosenblum, Digital Initiatives Librarian & Co-Director, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities