People

Robin Beck
Associate Professor, NAS Faculty

rabeck@umich.edu 4017 Museums 734.764.1240

Dmitri Brown
Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows

dmjbrown@umich.edu Haven Hall, 1045

Fields of Study: history, science and Indigenous history and philosophy.

Native American Studies; American Culture

Gregory E. Dowd
Helen Hornbeck Tanner Collegiate Professor, NAS Faculty; Interim Chair of American Culture

dowdg@umich.edu 3703 Haven Hall

FOR DEPARTMENTAL BUSINESS
contact: amcult-chair@umich.edu
calendar: invitations and appointment requests should be directed to Prof. Dowd c/o mlfr@umich.edu

Fields of study:
Native American and Early American history 734.936.6872

Native American Studies

Sherina Feliciano-Santos

sfelic@umich.edu

Native American Studies

Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Professor of American Culture and the Harry Burns Hutchins Collegiate Professor of Law

nimrod@umich.edu 314 Hutchins Hall

Fields of Study: Federal & tribal Indian law, Anishinaabe legal and political philosophy, administrative & Constitutional law, legal ethics.

Native American Studies

Kayla Gonyon
Lecturer I

kgonyon@umich.edu 3732 Haven Hall
505 S. State Street
Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045 734-615-8896

American Culture

Bethany Hughes
Assistant Professor

drbh@umich.edu 3664 Haven Hall

Fields of study:
19th- & 20th-century Native American portrayal, dramaturgy 734.936.4374

Native American Studies

Barbra A. Meek
Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Michigan; University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor

bameek@umich.edu 1085 S. University Ave., Ann Arbor MI 48109-1107 734.936.3192

Native American Studies

Cherry Meyer
Assistant Professor

cherryme@umich.edu Haven Hall

Fields of study: Ojibwe (Algonquian), morphology, semantics, noun categorization, gender, classifiers,language documentation and revitalization, language typology, word order, information structure, figurative language processing, idioms

Native American Studies

Susan Najita

najita@umich.edu

American Culture; Asian Pacific Islander American Studies; Native American Studies

Alphonse Pitawanakwat
LEO Lecturer II, NAS Faculty

apitawan@umich.edu 3732 Haven Hall

Fields of study:
Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) language instruction
734.615.8896

Native American Studies

Katie Schultz

katieasc@umich.edu

Native American Studies

Amy Stillman
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Director of the Native American Studies Program and Undergraduate Advisor for the minor

akstill@umich.edu 3765 Haven Hall

Fields of study: Ethnomusicology, Pacific Islands performance traditions, dance ethnology
734.763.5559