MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — A visiting scholar and author
who studies Native American and indigenous peoples will explain how they used
what’s now the nation’s capital in a free public lecture set Tuesday, March 21,
at MTSU.
Joseph Genetin-Pilawa, an assistant professor of history
at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and MTSU’s 2017 Strickland
Visiting Scholar in History, will speak on “The Indians’ Capital City: Native
Histories of Washington, D.C.” March 21 at 6:30 p.m. in Room 106 of MTSU’s Paul
W. Martin Sr. Honors Building.
A campus
map with parking notes is available at http://tinyurl.com/MTSUParkingMap.
Genetin-Pilawa,
who is the author of “Crooked Paths to Allotment: The Fight over Federal Indian
Policy after the Civil War,” also will meet with Department of History students
and faculty during his visit to MTSU, which is coordinated by the College of
Liberal Arts.
The
professor also co-edited “Beyond Two Worlds: Critical Conversations on Language
and Power in Native North America” and has held fellowships at the Smithsonian
Institution, working at the National Museum of the American Indian, and at the
Library of Congress’ Kluge Center. His current research examines the visual,
symbolic, and lived indigenous landscapes of Washington, D.C., focusing on ways
native visitors and residents claimed and reclaimed spaces in the city.
The
Strickland Visiting Scholar program allows students to meet with renowned
scholars whose expertise spans a variety of historical issues. The Strickland
family established the program in memory of Dr. Roscoe Lee Strickland Jr., a longtime professor of European
history at MTSU and the first president of the university’s Faculty Senate.
For more
information about this Strickland Visiting Scholar Lecture, please contact
MTSU’s Department of History at 615-898-5798.
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