The Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative Career Pathways Fellowship

Fátima Valdivia Ramirez, "Drug Trafficking in Tarahumara. Colonial continuities and mestizo criminal masculinities at the base of the modern Mexican colonial fragmented state"

The Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative Postdoctoral Fellowship

Bruno Seraphin, University of Connecticut, "Fires Beyond Crisis: Colonialism and the Resurgence of Indigenous Burning in Karuk Country"

The Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative Predoctoral Fellowship

Cynthia Wilson, (Diné), University of California, Berkeley, "Historicizing Contested Rangelands, Indigenous Mobility, and Food Systems: Navajo Genealogies, Linguistics, and Land Use at Bears Ears (1860-1960)"

The Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative Digital Knowledge Sharing (DKS) Fellowship

Brandon Castle, (Ketchikan Indian Community), University of Massachusetts Amherst, "Building a Tsimshian Bibliography and Resource Guide for Cultural Revitalization"

Lily McEwen, University of Missouri Columbia, "Digitizing Archival Collections for Alaska Native Knowledge Repatriation: A Collaborative Project with Kawerak Inc."

María Angélica García Hernández, (Mixtec), Rennes 2 University, "From the analysis of a collection of traditional narrations to its appropriation by the Mixtec indigenous community"

Nikki Wilcox & Alexander Olson, Western Kentucky University, "Mapping Indigenous Kentucky"

Indigenous Community Research Fund

Bruce Bernstein, Pueblo of San Ildefonso 

José Guarcax, Kaqchikel, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala   

Fernando David Márquez Duarte, Cucapáh 

Talena Atfield, Mohawk/Six Nations, University of Waterloo

The Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative Undergraduate Summer Interns

Avery Yara London, (Okinawan (Uchinaanchu) islander), Pomona College

Amber Nobriga, (Kanaka Maoli), Yale University

Azalea Cisco, (Mescalero Apache Tribe), Institute of American Indian Arts

The Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative Postdoctoral Fellowship

Andrew Abdalian, Tulane University, “Tunica language and culture: Reconnecting through documentation"

The Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative Predoctoral Fellowship

Jessica Locklear (Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina), Emory University, “Negotiating Identity Away From Home: Lumbee Mobility, Racial Hierarchies, and the Shaping of Modern American Indian Identity, 1880-1980"

The Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative Digital Knowledge Sharing (DKS) Fellowship

George Quinten Phoenyx Doxtater (Turtle Clan, Mohawk, Six Nations), Woodland Cultural Centre Language Department, "Cayuga Language Preservation via Reel-to-Reel Digitization"

Lauren Kelly,  University of Southern California, “From the Archives to the Valley: Bringing Nüümü and Newe Interviews Back to Payahuunadü"

Louellyn White (Akwesasne Mohawk), Concordia University, "Children Lost to Indian Boarding Schools: Connecting Archives to Indigenous Communities"

Mikalen Running Fisher (Blackfeet Tribe), University of Montana, "Reindigenizing Amskapii Pikanni Artifacts"

Indigenous Community Research Fellowship

Izaira López Sánchez, Ñuu Savi, The Americas Research Network (ARENET),  "Colección del Ñuu Savi en el APS"

Sean O'Rourke, Kanaka Bar Indian Band, "Preserving ƛ̓əq̓ƛ̓aqtn and Nlaka’pamux knowledge, heritage through collaboration with the American Philosophical Society Library and Museum."

Jakeli Swimmer, Kituwah Preservation & Education Program - Eastern Band of Cherokee, "Reclamation of the Eastern Cherokee People" (Timothy B. Powell Indigenous Community Research Fellowship)

The Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative Undergraduate Summer Interns

Dani Cohen (Muscogee (Creek) Tribe), Princeton University

Naomy Poot Ibarra (Yucatec Maya), Mount Holyoke College

Tia Hunt (Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative Career Pathways Fellowship

Emily Leischner, Independent Scholar, “Activating Nuxalk Ancestral Governance to Protect the Nuxalk Language at the APS"

The Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative Postdoctoral Fellowship

Christopher Roy, Independent Scholar, “Temahigániak and Hallowell"

The Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative Predoctoral Fellowship

Alexandra Lamiña, University of Texas, Austin, “Indigenous Geospatial Mobility: Agency, Gender, and Urbanization in Ecuadorian Amazonia"

The Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative Digital Knowledge Sharing (DKS) Fellowship

Alexander Jimerson, Deadiwënöhsnye's Gëjóhgwa', "Onödowa’ga:’ Gawënö’ Wadwënödahöh"

Sara Snyder Hopkins, Western Carolina University, "Scoping the Cherokee Language Journals of Will West Long"

Maureen Matthews, Independent Scholar, "Hallowell Photographs: Images and Memories"

Laura Spaan, Eyak Cultural Foundation, "Accessing Eyak: Connecting the Community to its Audiovisual Heritage"

Indigenous Community Research Fellowship

Etta Anderson, Colorado River Indian Tribes, “Mohave Language Revitalization”

Ensley Guffey, Catawba Nation, "Making Catawba holdings available remotely through digital objects"

Ian McCallum, Munsee-Delaware Nation/University of Toronto, “Asiiskusiipuw”

The Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative Undergraduate Summer Interns

Mara Gutierrez, (Diné), Yale University

Kiwenke Hubbard, (Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation), Washburn University

Keyen Singer, (Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation), University of Oregon

The Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative Postdoctoral Fellowship

Eli Nelson,  (Mohawk), Williams College, “Sovereign Knowledge: Native Informants, Settler Occupation, and the Becoming of Native Science”

The Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative Predoctoral Fellowship

Ruth H. Matamoros Mercado, (Miskitu), University of Texas, Austin,"Land is Life: Towards a Political Reconfiguration of Miskitu People’s Relations with Land"

Maura Sullivan, (Chumash), Tulane University, "Redefining our record: Chumash inquiry in Smithsonian archives"

The Mellon Foundation NASI Digital Knowledge Sharing (DKS) Fellowship

Tressa Berman, Independent Scholar, "Voices from Fort Berthold: Mandan (Nueta)-Hidatsa-Arikara (Sa'nish)"

Sean Guistini, Nunavut Arctic College, "Returning Digtial History to Nunavut Communities

Eric Johnson, Brown University, "Mapping Munsee Lenape Landscapes"

Dawn Randazzo, Chugachmiut Heritage Preservation Archive, 

Indigenous Community Research Fellowship

Robert Jimerson, Seneca Nation/Rochester Institute of Technology

Heather George, Deskaheh and 1924 Community Research Group

Pueblo of Isleta, Puebo of Isleta Department of Cultural and Historic Preservation

Angelina Jumper and Bo Taylor, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians - Junaluska Memorial Site and Museum, "Cherokee First Language Project" (Timothy B. Powell Indigenous Community Research Fellowship)

The Mellon Foundation NASI Undergraduate Summer Interns

Gunnar Barnes, University of New Mexico

Katie McGhee, (Poarch Band of Creek Indians), University of Texas, Austin

Alexis Lucero, (Pueblo of Isleta), University of New Mexico

The Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative Postdoctoral Fellowship

Anna Antoniou, "Living Off the Bay, Past & Present: Revitalizing Chinookan and Lower Chehalis Foodways"

The Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative Predoctoral Fellowship

Jarrett Chapin, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Indian Interiors of the National Imaginary: Industry and Individualism in Nineteenth-Century America"

Anabelle Rodriguez, Rutgers University, "Curating Xunantunich: Conserving Ancient Maya Art & Architecture & Preserving Natural Heritage in an Urban Cultural Landscape of Western Central Belize"

The Mellon Foundation NASI Digital Knowledge Sharing (DKS) Fellowship

[None this year due to COVID disruptions]

Indigenous Community Research Fellowship

Gertrude Smith and Reba Franco, Yavapai-Apache Nation, “Yavapai-Apache Nation Language Revitalization” (Timothy B. Powell Indigenous Community Research Fellowship)
Abelardo de la Cruz de la Cruz, University at Albany, SUNY, “Nahuatl Voices in Nahua Communities in the Huasteca Region of Mexico”

The Mellon Foundation NASI Undergraduate Summer Interns

[None this year due to COVID disruptions]

The Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative Postdoctoral Fellowship

Brooke Bauer, University of South Carolina, Lancaster, “Catawba Women and Nation-building, 1540-1840"

The Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative Predoctoral Fellowship

Candy Martinez, University of California, Santa Cruz, "Rethinking Structural Inequalities and Emotional Illnesses in Oaxacan Communities"

The Mellon Foundation NASI Digital Knowledge Sharing (DKS) Fellowship

Cassandra Smith, University of Illinois, Chicago, “Telling History from the Land”

Robbie Jimerson, Rochester Institute of Technology, “Seneca Language Revitalization”

Dianne Hinkley, Cowichan Tribes Land Research, “Oral Histories with Cowichan Elders”

Hilary Leathem, University of Chicago, and Pedro Guillermo Ramon Celis, Indiana University, Bloomington, “Este Lugar Tiene Muchas Historias”

Indigenous Community Research Fellowship

Marianne Nicolson and Midori Nicolson, Dzawada’enuxw First Nation, “George Hunt Maps” (Timothy B. Powell Indigenous Community Research Fellowship)
Tom Child, Kwagu'ł (Kwakiutl First Nation), “Kwakwaka’wakw Songs and Language”
George Greendeer, Ho-Chunk Nation, “Review of Ho-Chunk/Winnebago Materials for Hoocąk Waaziija Haci Language Division”

The Mellon Foundation NASI Undergraduate Summer Interns

Dynette Chavez, Whittier College

Nancy Mendoza-Ruiz, University of Washington

Tieranny Keahna, Coe College

The Andrew W. Mellon Native American Scholars Initiative Postdoctoral Fellowship

Timothy Vasko, Barnard College, “Native Information: Indigenous Subjectivity and Political Autonomy in Early-Modern Colonial Arts of Governance, 1492-1690”

The Andrew W. Mellon Native American Scholars Initiative Predoctoral Fellowship

Mary Kate Kelly, Tulane University, “Speech Carved in Stone: Language Variation among the Ancient Lowland Mayas”

Angela Tapia, University of Texas Austin, "Mujeres de Polleras: Weaving A Way of Being in The Altiplano Region"

The Andrew W. Mellon NASI Digital Knowledge Sharing (DKS) Fellowship

Laverne Demientieff, University of Alaska Fairbanks, "Digitizing Deg Xinag: Inspiring Connections Between Language Learning and Well-Being”

Amy E. Den Ouden, University of Massachusetts, Boston, "Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribal Archive"

Brandon Graham, Chippewas of the Thames, “Chippewas of the Thames First Nation Treaty Research”

X'unei Lance Twitchell, University of Alaska Southeast, “Tlingit Language Revitalization”

NASI Undergraduate Summer Interns

William Cummins, Virginia Commonwealth University

Jasmine Gloria, Tulane University

Liandra Skenandore, Northland College

The Andrew W. Mellon Native American Scholars Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow

Tiffanie Hardbarger, (Cherokee Nation), Northeastern State University, “Sustainable Communities: Through the Lens of Cherokee Youth”

The Andrew W. Mellon Native American Scholars Initiative Predoctoral Fellow

Morgan Ridgway, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “This Feeling of Being Together with Your Own: Competing Indigeneities in 20th century Philadelphia”

The Andrew W. Mellon NASI Digital Knowledge Sharing (DKS) Fellows

Patrick DeɁileligi Burtt, (Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California (Wašiw)/Tule River Tribe (Yokut)), University of Nevada, Reno, "Reclaiming Wašiw History: Washoe Digital Archive Construction"

Ashley Cordes, (Coquille Indian Tribe), University of Oregon, "Currency as Communication and Oregon Colonial Processes of the 1850s"

Maria Montenegro, UCLA, "What Makes Evidence Evidence? The Use and Interpretation of Records in the Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians’ Federal Acknowledgment Petition"

Saul Schwartz, University of California, Berkeley, "Unarchiving Chiwere Language Documentation: Recontextualizing the Marsh/Small Texts"

The Andrew W. Mellon Native American Scholars Initiative Undergraduate Summer Interns

Ashton Dunkley, (Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape), Temple University 

Mowana Lomaomvaya, (Hopi Tribe), Northern Arizona University 

Ian McAlpin, (Squirrel Ridge Ceremonial Grounds/Gaduwa), Northeastern State University/University of Oklahoma Tulsa

Andrew W. Mellon Native American Scholars Initiative Postdoctoral Fellowship

Tiffany Hale, (Cherokee and African American descent), Yale University, “Hostiles and Friendlies: Memory, U.S. Institutions, and the 1890 Ghost Dance”

Andrew W. Mellon Native American Scholars Initiative Predoctoral Fellowship

Teresa Montoya, (Diné), New York University, “Tracing Toxicity: Dine Politics of Permeability”

Andrew W. Mellon NASI Digital Knowledge Sharing (DKS) Fellowship

Holly Miowak Guise, (Iñupiaq), Yale University, “World War II and the First Peoples of the Last Frontier”

Megan Lukaniec, (Huron-Wendat Nation), University of California, Santa Barbara, “A Grammar of Wendat (Huron)”

Anna Naruta-Moya and Daniel Moya (Tewa, P’o Suwae Ge Owingeh), Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, “Indigenous Digital Archive”

Edward Noel Smyth, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC), “Digital Archives of Natchez Oral Histories”