December 20, 2020
Humanities Council awards grant to launch Native American & Indigenous Studies Working Group
Days after the University announced the creation of an endowed professorship of Indigenous Studies, the Humanities Council awarded an Exploratory Grant in Collaborative Humanities to Professor of English and American Studies Sarah Rivett. The grant will enable Rivett to launch the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative (NAISIP), which will include a working group for the next academic year.
The working group will build upon Rivett’s previous collaborations with the student group Nativ