Brinker Ferguson
Appointments
Lecturing Professor, Native American and Indigenous Studies
Research Associate, Data Experiences + Visualizations Lab
Area of Expertise
Postcolonial and Indigenous Pacific theory and practice in the archive,
Computational imaging for cultural heritage preservation (continuation),
Indigenous data sovereignty
Biography
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.
Taught Courses
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)
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