Assistant Professor, Department of American Culture

Bethany Hughes is a cultural historian and performance scholar interested in how performance constructs culturally recognizable categories and offers possibilities to resist or remake those same categories. Her book project draws on the fields of Native American Studies, Theatre, and Performance Studies asking questions about racialization, representation, authenticity, and authority. Hughes is also interested in federal Indian law, musical theatre, and how economic and organizational structures shape cultural production.

Native-Serving Resource at Michigan

• Native American Studies – Department of American Culture
• Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs

Assistant Professor, Department of History

Doug Kiel is a citizen of the Oneida Nation and studies Native American history, with particular interests in the Great Lakes region and twentieth century Indigenous nation rebuilding. He is working on a book manuscript entitled Unsettling Territory: Oneida Indian Resurgence and Anti-Sovereignty Backlash. Prior to joining the Northwestern faculty, he taught at Williams College, Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Middlebury College. He is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Ford Foundation, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, the Newberry Library, and the School for Advanced Research (SAR) in Santa Fe, NM, among others.

Native-Serving Resource at Northwestern

• Multicultural Student Affairs
• Center for Native American and Indigenous Research
• Native American and Indigenous Initiatives
• Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English

Terese Mailhot is a visiting assistant professor in English. Mailhot holds an M.F.A. in fiction writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts and a bachelor’s degree in creative writing from New Mexico State. She spent the 2017-18 academic year at Purdue University as a Tecumseh Postdoctoral Fellow, furthering her research while also mentoring graduate and undergraduate students. In February 2018, she released Heart Berries: A Memoir, a New York Times bestseller and selection in the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers series. Mailhot has worked as an English and composition instructor at Dona Ana Community College in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and as a columnist at Indian Country Today, a Native American news source. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, the Los Angeles Times, Carve Magazine, The Offing, The Toast and Yellow Medicine Review. She is the recipient of the SWAIA Discovery Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Writing by Writers Fellowship, and the Elk Writer’s Workshop Fellowship.

Native-Serving Resource at Purdue

• Native American Educational and Cultural Center (NAECC)
• Native American and Indigenous Studies

Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies

Bayley J. Marquez is an Indigenous scholar from the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians. She earned her doctorate in Education as a part of the Social and Cultural Studies program from the University of California, Berkeley in 2019. Her research examines the role of schools in settler colonialism, antiblackness, and imperialism and particularly how forms of teaching traveled and changed in different racialized and colonial contexts. Her archival research on Black and Indigenous industrial schools has been supported by the College of Arts and Humanities Junior Faculty Fellowship, the Ford Foundation, and the Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues. Her current book project, titled “Teaching Slavery and Settlement: Plantation Pedagogies in Currents of Conquest,” examines the role of industrial education in the production of settler colonial space, structuring the “afterlife of slavery,” and the racialization of imperial subjects.

Native-Serving Resource at Maryland

• Native American Indian Student Involvement – Adele H. Stamp Student Union – Center for Campus Life

Director of American Indian and Indigenous Studies
Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities

Dylan AT Miner, PhD is an artist, activist, and scholar. He is Director of American Indian and Indigenous Studies, as well as Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, at Michigan State University. In Spring 2019, he was Denison Visiting Professor of Native American Studies at Central Michigan University. In 2010, he was an Artist Leadership Fellow at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. He serves on the board of the Michigan Indian Education Council and is a founding member of the Justseeds artist collective. 

His book Creating Aztlán: Chicano Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Lowriding Across Turtle Island was published by the University of Arizona Press. He has published multiple risograph books and booklets, including an artist’s book titled Aanikoobijigan // Waawaashkeshi; a booklet on Métis and Anishinaabe beadwork; a chapbook on quillwork; a notebook for learners of the Odawa and Ojibwe language; and a poem-book titled Bakobiigwaashkwani // She Jumps into the Water. Miner is presently working on a multivolume portfolio of prints on activist-athletes and a risograph book of floral beadwork patterns. 

Miner is a registered citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario.

Native-Serving Resource at Michigan State

• American Indian and Indigenous Studies

Director, Native American Center for Health Professions, School of Medicine and Public Health

Danielle Yancey (Menominee/Santee) has worked in public service for more than fifteen years focusing on programs that promote social justice, education access, and equity. Currently, she serves as the director for the Native American Center for Health Professions at the School of Medicine and Public Health at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to her present role, she served as a Career Pathways Coordinator at UW Health as part of the newly formed Allied Health Education and Career Pathways department, which focuses on workforce development in the healthcare industry. For several years, Danielle also served as a tribal liaison for the State of Wisconsin Department of Transportation in Tribal affairs. In this capacity, she worked closely with Tribal communities to establish workforce development opportunities and capacity building initiatives to enhance employment access on transportation projects. Danielle is originally from the Menominee Indian reservation, and moved to the Madison area to pursue her education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She graduated with undergraduate degrees in women’s studies and social welfare, Master of Science in urban and regional planning, and holds a sustainability leadership graduate certificate from Edgewood College.

Native-Serving Resource at Wisconsin

• The Native American Center for Health Professions
• Information Technology Academy Lac du Flambeau
• Information Technology Academy Onidea