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Madeline Halbach is a white settler historian and PhD student at the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include Indigenous kinship, justice, and sovereignty in the western Great Lakes and upper Mississippi River in the 18th and 19th centuries. She previously served as the docent manager of the Pentacrest Museums in Iowa City, creating and delivering tours about Iowa's early territorial and state history. She is the author of "Murder on Lake Pepin: Indigenous Power and Transcultural Justice in the Western Great Lakes, 1824-1829, published in Early American Studies (Winter 2026).

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Educational Background

  • BA: Honors in History, University of Iowa
  • BA: Social Studies Education, University of Iowa
  • Certificate: Native American Indigenous Studies (NAIS), University of Iowa

Specialties

  • Early US History
  • American Indian History
  • Colonialism/Imperialism
  • Global Indigeneities