Brinker Ferguson

Academic Appointments

  • Lecturing Professor, Native American and Indigenous Studies

  • Research Associate, Data Experiences + Visualizations Lab

Brinker Ferguson, PhD, is a Lecturing Professor and Research Associate in the Native American and Indigenous Studies Department at Dartmouth College. Her scholarship and teaching examines the histories of Pacific material culture and museum archives through postcolonial frameworks, foregrounding how archives produce power, shape historical memory, and influence 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. 

Contact

Meredith.B.Ferguson@dartmouth.edu
44 N. College, Room 203
HB 6047

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)

Courses