News and Updates
(Nov. 7, 2024)
What Does Seventh-Generation Thinking Mean? (A&S Fall Magazine Exclusive)Indigenous values offer alternative roads to sustainability.
(Oct. 21, 2024)
Recognizing Indigenous Women’s Wisdom in the Quest for Global Food SecurityAssistant professor Mariaelena Huambachano is conducting ethnographic research in both Peru and the U.S. for her second book on the topic, funded in part by an NEH Summer Stipend.
(Feb. 27, 2024)
Humanities Center Supports Four Spring 2024 FellowsResearch ranges from recovering ancestral foodways, making Black space in the digital age, natural reasoning through virtue to stereotypical Caribbean images.
(Nov. 27, 2023)
Indigenous Studies Researcher Advises the UN on Inequalities in Food Security and NutritionA&S scholar, Mariaelena Huambachano, travels the world gathering and sharing research on the wisdom of “Traditional Ecological Knowledge”, while passing it down to the next generation through her teaching at Syracuse.
(Nov. 13, 2023)
Sascha T. Scott Receives NFAH Fellowship for Her Work on Modern Pueblo PaintingAssociate professor of art history Sascha Scott has been named an inaugural non-residential fellow of the New Foundation for Art History 2023-24 and will use the grant to complete her new book.
(Nov. 6, 2023)
Reflecting on the Past, Offering Hope for the FutureNative American students at Syracuse University help curate an exhibition of works by contemporary Haudenosaunee artist Peter B. Jones, illuminating Indigenous culture and history.
(Oct. 25, 2023)
Native American and Indigenous Studies Professor to Present at New York State History MuseumProfessor Scott Manning Stevens will examine how museums can navigate the complicated issues around Native American representation in museums.
(March 10, 2023)
Sacred Indigenous Objects Find Their Way HomeIn “an international act of diplomacy,” Syracuse University alumnus Brennen Ferguson ’19 helps repatriate ceremonial Native American items from a museum in Geneva, Switzerland.