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Fellowship Start Year

2012

Status

Alumni

Research Topic

Rebuilding Indigenous Nations: Native American Activism and the Long Red Power Movement

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Doug Kiel

He/Him
School of Arts & Sciences

Bio

Doug Kiel, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Northwestern University and a citizen of the Oneida Nation. He specializes in Native American history, focusing on the Great Lakes region and Indigenous nation rebuilding.

At Penn, Doug researched Indigenous land rights and sovereignty, contributing to the understanding of Native American legal and historical issues. His current book project, “Unsettling Territory: Oneida Indian Resurgence and Anti-Sovereignty Backlash,” is under review with Yale University Press.

Doug has taught at Williams College, Columbia University, and Middlebury College. He has received grants and fellowships from the Ford Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. He has also contributed to museum exhibitions and served as an expert witness on Indigenous land rights.

Beyond academia, Doug has been involved in renovating the Field Museum’s exhibition on Native North America and has served as an Indigenous Fellow at the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland

Postdoc Appointment

Department
  • History
Penn Faculty Mentor
  • Doug Richter, Ph.D.

Education

Degrees
  • 2012, Ph.D., U.S. History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • 2007, M.A., U.S. History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • 2005, B.A., American Indian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Disertation Title

The Oneida Resurgence: Modern Indian Renewal in the Heart of America

Research Advisors
  • Ned Blackhawk, Ph.D.
  • William Cronon, Ph.D.