People

2025 cohort

Rhys Benoit, Laudato si’ and Land & Water Acknowledgement Project

Ashaila Jackson, Wild Rice Project

Karlye Kriewaldt, Wild Rice Project

Lauren Reszczynski, Milwaukee Public Schols Act 31 Project

Norah Timmerman, Catholic Indian Mission Schools Archives Project

Ethan Vander Leek, Graduate Fellow

2024 cohort

Iyo Abeyemi, Graduate Fellow

Briget Clark, Wild Rice Project

Ashaila Jackson, Wild Rice Project

Norah Timmerman, Forest Home Cemetary Project and Catholic Indian Mission Schools Archives Project

2023 cohort

Iyo Abeyemi, Graduate Fellow

Danielle Barrett, Wild Rice Project and Catholic Indian Mission Schools Archives Project

Madison Black, Wild Rice Project and Catholic Indian Mission Schools Archives Project

Mairin Couch, Indigenize Milwaukee Digital Mapping Project

Alexandra Gambacorta, Graduate Fellow

Faith Hall, Catholic Indian Mission Schools Archives Project

Ashaila Jackson, Wild Rice Project

Marshall Kopacki, Indigenize Milwaukee Digital Mapping Project

2022 cohort

Danielle Barrett, Wild Rice Project and Catholic Indian Mission Schools Archives Project

Madison Black, Wild Rice Project and Catholic Indian Mission Schools Archives Project

Clare Camblin, Indigenize Milwaukee Digital Mapping Project and Historic Milwaukee, Inc. Project

Alexandra Gambacorta, Graduate Fellow

Marshall Kopacki, Indigenize Milwaukee Digital Mapping Project and Historic Milwaukee, Inc. Project

Miriam Schwabe, Wild Rice Project

Julia Solberg, Wild Rice Project

2021 cohort

Danielle Barrett, Wild Rice Project

Bailey Birenbaum, Catholic Indian Mission Schools Archives Project

Clare Camblin, Indigenize Milwaukee Digital Mapping Project

Rebecca DeBoer, Catholic Indian Mission Schools Archives Project

Cameron Fronczak, Indigenize Milwaukee Digital Mapping Project

Alexandra Gambacorta, Graduate Fellow

Alex Liberato, Indigenize Milwaukee Digital Mapping Project

Sir Lawrence Tender, Wild Rice Project

Will Egan Waukau, Wild Rice Project

Faculty and staff

Kirsten Boeh collaborates on the Laudato si’ and Land & Water Acknowledgement Project.

Alex Gambacorta collaborates on the Catholic Indian Mission Schools Archives Project.

Dr. Paul Gasser leads the Laudato si’ and Land & Water Acknowledgement Project.

Maxwell Gray leads the 1833 Treaty of Chicago Digital Reader Project and Unceded Milwaukee Digital Mapping Project.

Dr. Nathan Lemoine collaborates on the Laudato si’ and Land & Water Acknowledgement Project.

Dr. Bryan C. Rindfleisch leads the Indigenize Milwaukee Digital Mapping Project and collaborates on the Laudato si’ and Land & Water Acknowledgement Project.

Dr. Michael Schläppi leads the Wild Rice Project.

Dr. John J. Su serves as Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Student Success.

Faculty and staff emerita

Dr. Samantha Majhor (Dakota and Assiniboine) led the Catholic Indian Mission Schools Archives Project.

Dr. Jacqueline Fontaine Schram (Sagkeeng First Nation) served as Director of Public Affairs and Special Assistant for Native American Affairs.

Special thanks

Mishiikenh Vernon Altiman, Electa Quinney Institute, UW-Milwaukee

Robin Carufel, Council on Native American Affairs, Marquette University

Amy Cooper Cary, Archival Collections, Raynor Library, Marquette University

Fannie Cliff, St. Charles Mission School (Pryor, Montana)

Wade Fernandez, Menominee Nation artist and educator

Julia Griffith, Historic Milwaukee, Inc.

Dr. Jennifer Haas, Anthropology, UW-Milwaukee

Kitty Hill, Council on Native American Affairs, Marquette University

Melanie Julio, Urban Ecology Center

Richanda Kaquatosh, First Nation Studies, Milwaukee Public Schools

Dr. Sarah Kizuk, Philosophy, Skidmore College

Dr. Jodi Melamed, English, Marquette University

Dr. Karen Michel, President and CEO of IndiJ Public Media

Alyssa Mussa, First Nation Studies, Milwaukee Public Schools

Karen Parr, Creative Director, Office of Marketing and Communication Team, Marquette University

Mary Annette Pember, Author and Journalist

Laree Pourier, Mahpiya Luta Summer Research Institute (Pine Ridge, South Dakota)

Dr. Mark Powless, Indian Community School (Franklin, Wisconsin)

John Teller Sr., Menominee Indian School District (Keshena, Wisconsin)

Jo Ann Schedler, Council on Native American Affairs, Marquette University

Dawn Scher Thomae, Milwaukee Public Museum

Sara Tomlin, Forest Home Cemetery and Arboretum (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)

Dr. Ethan Vander Leek, Campus Ministry, Marquette University