Next month, Associate Professor and Chair of Native American Studies Melanie Taylor and her husband, Alan Taylor, a lecturer in writing, will pack up their house in New London, N.H., and move with their 2-year old son, Abel, into a large Victorian house on North Park Street—part of the College’s new house communities system. Read more about Melanie Benson Taylor to Become North Park House Professor
Vivian Korthuis ’86 has been named the first woman CEO of the Association of Village Council Presidents, made up of 56 tribes in 48 villages throughout Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, reports Alaska Dispatch News. Read more about ALUMNA IS FIRST WOMAN TO LEAD BIG ALASKA NATIVE ORGANIZATION
N. Bruce Duthu ’80, the Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies, will be the next Frank. J. Guarini Associate Dean for International Studies and Interdisciplinary Programs. He succeeds Lynn Higgins, the Edward Tuck Professor of French and a professor of comparative literature, of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, and of film and media studies. She has held the office since 2011. Read more about N. Bruce Duthu ’80 to Lead International and Interdisciplinary Programs
JoRee LaFrance ’17, from Crow Agency, Montana, and Helen Thomas ’18, from Grand Forks, N.D., have been awarded 2016 scholarships from the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation. Read more about Two Undergraduates Named Udall Scholars
Growing up on a ranch on the Crow reservation in Montana, surrounded by family—her mother, father, twin sister, aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents—JoRee LaFrance ’17 knows the power of storytelling. Read more about JoRee LaFrance ’17 Preserves Native American Stories
Melanie Chaplier, PhD, is a Belgian Anthropologist who joined NAS as a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow for the academic year 2015-2016 Read more about 2015-2016 Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow
Professor Nick Reo and Dartmouth students are designing backcountry ski/snowboard trails that are as low impact on the forest and wildlife as possible and are monitoring for unintended ecological impacts. Read more about BackCountry Skiers Team Up With Green Mountain National Forest
Native American Studies’ inaugural Off-Campus Program in Santa Fe, New Mexico launched in September 2015. The program is based at the Institute of American Indian Art. Read more about NAS' inaugural Off-Campus Program in Santa Fe, NM
Farina King, specializing in twentieth-century Native American Studies, is the 2015-2016 Eastman Fellow at the Native American Studies Program at Dartmouth College. Read more about 2015-2016 Eastman Fellow: Farina King
Joy Porter, professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Hull, U.K., was named a 2015-2016 All Disciplines Fulbright Scholar at Dartmouth College. During her stay at Dartmouth College, Joy will be developing her next project, a study of unconventional warfare within Native history across three centuries called Native American Indian Ways of War. Read more about Joy Porter named Fulbright Scholar at Dartmouth
