Mindy Morgan

Mindy Morgan is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and an affiliated faculty member of the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program at Michigan State University. She is currently serving as the Associate Chair and Undergraduate Program Director for the Department of Anthropology. Her work lies at the intersection of linguistic and sociocultural anthropology and concerns issues such as Indigenous language use and transmission, literacy practices, and knowledge construction among both historic and contemporary American Indian communities. She is the author of ’The Bearer of this Letter’: Language Ideologies and Literacy Practices among the Fort Belknap Communities (University of Nebraska, 2009). Her ethnohistorical work includes scholarly articles and book chapters related to tribal participation in various Works Project Administration (WPA) programs. She has also written about contemporary efforts to integrate Indigenous languages in university systems, focusing primarily on Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) at Michigan State University. Recent publications focus on the history of the discipline and the ways in which Indigenous communities have responded to anthropological projects in the early 20^th century.