Department of American Studies PhD alumna Patricia Marroquin Norby was appointed to be the first full-time Native American curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and is featured in an article from CNN.
Ph.D. candidate Hana Maruyama (Department of American Studies) and her brother created the podcast "Campu" to collect and preserve stories of Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II.
Northrop Professor of the Department of American Studies, Brenda Child, is mentioned in Vogue's article "Indigenous Fashion Is More Than Tradition," pointing out Child's Jingle Dress and current exhibit at Mille Lacs Indian Museum.
Northrop Professor Brenda Child of the Department of American Studies talks more on the history of the jingle dress tradition in the Ojibwe culture in an article featured in the Star Tribune.
Professor Emerita Riv-Ellen Prell in the Department of American Studies and director of the Center for Jewish Studies collaborated with Archivist Katie Dietrick to create an exhibit on the history of discrimination against Black and Jewish students called "A Campus Divided."
Northrop Professor in the Department of American Studies Brenda J. Child gives her insight on the similarities between Kamala Harris and Charles Curtis, an American Indian from Kansas who was vice president of the U.S. from 1929-1933, in an article written for the Star Tribune.
