New A&S faculty bring Indigenous studies expertise
June 3, 2021 Two new faculty members who specialize in Native American and Indigenous literatures will join the Department of Literatures in English for the fall of 2021. The hires of Jodi Byrd, currently faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Juliana Hu Pegues, currently faculty at the University of Minnesota, build upon the 2019 addition of Kiowa filmmaker Jeffrey Palmer to Performing and Media Arts in broader efforts to increase faculty diversity, said Derk Pereboom, senior associate dean for arts and humanities and the Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy. “On...
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