Brinker Ferguson
Lecturing Professor, Native American and Indigenous Studies
Research Associate, Data Experiences + Visualizations Lab
Brinker Ferguson, PhD, is a Lecturing Professor in the Native American and Indigenous Studies Department and Research Associate at Dartmouth College. Her work focuses on postcolonial and Indigenous approaches to material culture archives as sites of power in the politics of remembering and forgetting. This informs her work in Aotearoa/New Zealand, especially with Māori-led research centers and projects that center heritage continuation and Indigenous sovereignty.
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Selected Publications
The Politics of Digital Repatriation and its Relationship to Indigenous Data Sovereignty, in Digital Humanities, London: UCL Press, 2023.
Recalibrating the Museum: The Physical/Digital Repatriation of Te Hau Ki Turnaga, University of California, 2018
Wai262 and GeoAI: Expanding Mātauranga Māori Sovereignty in the Digital Age (forthcoming)
Tiakitanga in the Information Age: Ecocultural Monitoring and Indigenous Data Sovereignty on Moutoa Island (forthcoming)