Welcome Remarks for the Center for the Futures of Native Peoples Director, Dr. Darren Lone Fight

As an undergraduate Dr Fear-Segal studied at the University of East Anglia and as a postgraduate at University College London and Harvard University. She spent two separate years as a visiting lecturer at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris teaching American Civilization, and also a brief stint as a script writer for the BBC World Service. She spent the academic year, 1999-2000, at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania , on an academic teaching exchange with Professor Amy Farrell. The nineteenth and early twentieth century have been her main focus, but land disputes, education, missionary activity, and issues of identity interest her in all periods.

Dr. Alexa Woloshyn, Cooper-Siegel Associate Professor of Musicology, Carnegie Mellon School of Music Abigail Chabitnoy, Assistant Professor @ the University of Massachusetts Amherst Dr. Amalia Pesantes Villa, Assistant Professor, Dickinson College

Lindsay Robertson is an esteemed member of the advisory council for the Center for the Futures of Native Peoples at Dickinson College. He brings a wealth of experience and expertise in Native American and Indigenous Peoples Law. As the Chickasaw Nation Endowed Chair in Native American Law Emeritus at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, Professor Robertson has contributed significantly to the field through his roles as an educator, author, and legal advisor. Dr. Elizabeth Rule is a renowned academic and scholar, and an enrolled citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. She holds the position of Assistant Professor of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies at American University in Washington, DC. Her educational journey includes a B.A. in American Studies from Yale University, an M.A. in American Studies from Brown University in 2014, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Brown University in 2019.