Boozhoo! I am an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation of Ojibwe (Bear Clan). I currently work and study on the traditional homelands of the Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ (Cayuga) at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY where I am a PhD Candidate in the Medieval Studies Program and a graduate minor in American Indian and Indigenous Studies. I come from a long legacy of Ojibwe historians, researchers, educators, dreamers, and community leaders.

As a critical Indigenous medievalist, I research rhetorics of settler colonialism across the medieval-modern divide. My dissertation research brings texts from early medieval England into conversation with settler documentations of New York State during the long nineteenth century.

I have experience teaching both medieval and Indigenous studies topics. While at Cornell, I have been selected to be a Graduate Teaching Assistantship for a lecture course on “Indigenous North America” (AIIS 1100/AMST 1600/ANTHR 1700) twice, and was an Instructor of Record for a self-designed Freshman Writing Seminar on “Women in Medieval Art and Literature” (MEDVL 1101). As an undergraduate, I served as a teaching assistant to Beginning Latin I & II (LAT 1001, 1002), “Ancient to Medieval Art and Architecture” (ARTH 1111), “Interpreting the Visual World: An Introduction to Art History” (ARTH 1021), and “Renaissance to Modern Art” (ARTH 1201).

During my time at Cornell, I have earned my M.A. in Medieval Studies (2022), awarded the Summer Graduate Fellowship in Digital Humanities (2024), the Zhu Family Graduate Fellowship (2023-24), and the Dean’s McNair Fellowship (2019), and received the prestigious designation of a Graduate Dean’s Scholar (2019). In 2019, I earned my B.A. in Medieval Studies, Art History, and Classical Civilizations from the University of Minnesota, Morris, where I also received the Scholar of the College Award (2019) and the Art History Book Award (2019).