Participant Info
- First Name
- Rose
- Last Name
- Miron
- Country
- United States
- State
- mironr@newberry.org
- Affiliation
- The Newberry Library
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Native American and Indigenous Studies, American Indian History, Public History, Memory Studies
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
Rose Miron is the Vice President for Research and Education at the Newberry Library. She holds a BA in History and a PhD in American Studies from the University of Minnesota. Her research broadly explores Indigenous history in the Great Lakes, especially as it related to public history and memory, and she is particularly invested in place-based histories. Her first book, Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory, was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2024. The project is based in close collaboration with the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Nation since 2010 and highlights one tribe’s efforts to recover historical materials from settler colonial museums and archives and reclaim their right to represent their own history. Miron has been at the Newberry since 2019, previously serving as the Director of teh D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies. Prior to joining the Newberry, she served as the Program Manager for the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition. She is currently co-directing a multifaceted public humanities initiative called Indigenous Chicago. In collaboration with several scholars, Native community members, and tribal nations with historic ties to Chicago, the project includes an exhibition and digital mapping site, as well as curricular resources and new community oral histories.
- Recent Publications
Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory (University of Minnesota Press, 2024)
Indigenous Chicago, Comic Book Catalog. Co-authored with Haku Blaisdell and Analu Maria Lopez, Newberry Library.
“The Story of Chicago’s Founding Erases Centuries of Contributions from Indigenous People” Chicago Tribune, November 22, 2023, https://www.chicagotribune.com/2023/11/22/rose-miron-the-story-of-chicagos-founding-erases-centuries-of-contributions-from-indigenous-peoples/
“Fighting for the Tribal Bible: Mohican Politics of Self-Representation and Repatriation,” Native American and Indigenous Studies, Volume 5, Issue 2. Spring 2019.
“Statues, National Monuments, and Settler-Colonialism: Connections between Public History and Policy in the Wake of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante,” National Council on Public History Blog: History@Work, December 18, 2017, http://ncph.org/history-at-work/statues-national-monuments-settler-colonialism/.
“Sacrificing Comfort for Complexity: Presenting Difficult Narratives in Public History,” National Council on Public History Blog: History@Work. April 24, 2014, http://ncph.org/history-at-work/sacrificing-comfort-for-complexity/.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Indigenous Peoples, Libraries & Archives, Material Culture, Museums, Public History, Women
