Brinker Ferguson
Appointments
Lecturing Professor, Native American and Indigenous Studies
Research Associate, Data Experiences + Visualizations Lab
Area of Expertise
Postcolonial theory in the archive,
Pacific material history and culture,
Indigenous data sovereignty
Biography
Brinker Ferguson, PhD, is a Lecturing Professor and Research Associate in the Native American and Indigenous Studies Department at Dartmouth College. Her scholarship and teaching examines the histories of Pacific material culture and museum archives through postcolonial frameworks, foregrounding how archives produce power, shape historical memory, and influence 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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