Beginning in high school, American studies professor Bianet Castellanos had an interest in the history and the culture of the indigenous people of Mexico. That particular history wasn’t easy to explore.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is sponsoring a Sawyer Seminar for 2017–18 that promises to examine the conflicts that arise from varying relations to land.
Professors Brenda Child, Kevin Murphy, and Jean O'Brien have joined a nationwide mass incarceration interpretation project focused on American Indian incarceration in Minnesota.
