About the Facilitator
Professor Brenda L Croft, 2023-24 Gough Whitlam & Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies,
Departments of History of Art & Architecture; Art, Film & Visual Studies, Harvard University
Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra Peoples, Northern Territory, Australia; Anglo-Australian/Chinese/German/Irish/Scottish heritage
Panelists
Director, Anthropology Museum; ARC Research Fellow, School of Social Science
University of Queensland
First Nations
Professor, Academic Director (Indigenous Research), Office of Pro-Vice Chancellor (International), La Trobe University, Australia
Woiwurrung, Yorta Yorta Peoples,
Member of the Dhulanyagan family clan of the Ulupna people
Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University, Art Historian and Arts Consultant
Métis/ Irish / English
PhD student, Department of the History of Art, Yale University
Curator and creative
Citizen of the Navajo Nation
NAGPRA (Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act), Associate Director, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, Harvard
Enrolled Citizen, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
Curator, ‘Emily Kam Kngwarray’, National Gallery of Australia (2023-24), Tate Modern, UK (2025)
Warumungu and Luritja Peoples
Assistant Professor
CRC in Indigenous History of North America, York University, Canada
Bne doodemid (Ruffed Grouse clan), Anishinaabe, M’Chigeeng First Nation, Manitoulin Island
First Nations Curatorial Fellow, Kluge Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, University of Virginia
Curator, Indigenous Australian Art
Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art
Kullilli/Yuggera Peoples
Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History
Chair, Committee on Degrees in History and Literature
Harvard University
Yankton Dakota Sioux Nation
Associate Professor, School of Indigenous Studies; Senior Lecturer, School of Indigenous Studies
University of Western Australia
Yamatji people of the Inggarda language group
Professor of Anthropology and of Global Health and Social Medicine; Faculty Director, Native American Program
Harvard University
Aaniiih-Gros Ventre
Multidisciplinary artist, curator and consultant
Kanyen’kehà:ka Mohawk, from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, Ontario
Assistant Professor
Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies
Harvard University, US
Film-maker
Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians
Associate Professor, Fine Arts, University of Alberta, Canada
Carry-the-Kettle First Nations, Saskatchewan
Tribal and Community Visit Coordinator
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
Cheyenne River Lakota (Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe)
College Fellow in Indigenous Religions, School of Divinity, Harvard University, US
Samoan, Irish and Swiss descent/heritage
Curator of North American Collections
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, Harvard
Navajo Nation
Cultural educator, Traditional Story Teller, tribal drummer/dancer & motivational speaker, poet & writer
Citizen of the Nipmuc Tribe of Massachusetts
Ph.D. Candidate in History of Art, Department of History of Art and Visual Studies, Cornell University
(Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe descent)
Mellon Assistant Professor
Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora
Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora (RCD)
School of Arts and Sciences
Tufts University
Enrolled Citizen of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe
Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Gender Studies and American Indian Studies
University of California Los Angeles
Chiricahua Apache
Director/Writer/Producer, Film & Television Practitioner.
Senior Manager, First Nations Engagement at the National Film & Sound Archives of Australia.
Wodi Wodi/Dharawal/Yuin
Adjunct Curator Indigenous Art for the TATE Modern London, Tate Modern London, and Senior Curator RISING Melbourne International Art Festival
Yorta Yorta People
Founding director, aabaakwad
Helen Frankenthaler Visiting Professor in Curating in the Ph.D. Program in Art History Art History, Graduate Department of Art History , City University of New York (CUNY), US
Anishinaabe-kwe, Beausoleil First Nation
Evelyn A. J. Hall and John A. Friede Curator for Oceanic Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, US/Maori
Maori (Ngai Tai) descent/English
Associate Professor, Department of English
Affiliate, Harvard University Native American Program
Affiliate, American Studies, Harvard University
Bdewákaŋtunwaŋ Damákota
Mní Wakáŋ Oyáte Dakóta omáwapi (enrolled, Spirit Lake Dakota Nation)
Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs & Curator of Indigenous Art, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, US
Citizen of Osage Nation
Associate Professor, departments of History of Art and Art
Former Director of the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program 2008-2020 (AIISP)
Cornell University, US
Skarù·ręʔ / Tuscarora Nation, Hodinöhsö:ni Confederacy
Curator, Modern & Contemporary Maori & Indigenous Art (independent),
Curator, Sharjah Biennial 16, 6 Feb-25 June 2025.
Te Ātiawa, Ngāi Tahu and Kāti Māmoe Māori descent
Inaugural Ellyn McColgan Assistant Curator of Native American Art, Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Boston, US
CHamoru People, Guåhan (known as Guam), US
Visiting Professor of Native American Culture and Traditions, Harvard Divinity School
Citizen/Member of the Osage Nation
Doctoral candidate in the History Department at Harvard University
Enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation (Bourassa & Muller families; Bear Clan)