Participant Info
- First Name
- Fallon
- Last Name
- Burner
- Country
- United States
- State
- VA
- fallon.burner@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- William & Mary
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Indigenous Eastern Woodlands, material culture, Virginia Indigenous history, Wendat & Wyandot history, language revitalization & revival, ethnohistory, oral histories, the Atlantic World, and Vast Early America.
- Availability
- 1
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- MA
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
https://www.wm.edu/as/history/gradprogram/graduate-student-bios/burner_f.php
BA History, University of California Berkeley, summa cum laude, History’s Highest Honors, multiple awards for my honors thesis about oral history, historical and transgenerational trauma, and language revival (revitalization) in the Wendat and Wyandot nations.
MA History, University of Saskatchewan, my masters thesis was nominated for the University Prize.
I’m currently working on my PhD in History at William & Mary.
- Recent Publications
“A History of Language and Revival in the Wendat and Wyandot(te) Nations, 1534-2023,” Masters Thesis, University of Saskatchewan, 2023.
Essay in The Williamsburg Bray School: A History Through Records, Reflections, and Rediscovery, Colonial Williamsburg, 2024.
“An Educational Experiment: The Brafferton Indian School’s goals of introducing English culture and religion met resistance,” Trend & Tradition Magazine, Fall 2023.
- Media Coverage
- https://wydaily.com/features/2023/05/15/ten-questions-with-fallon-burner/
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Eastern Woodlands - North America & Canada
- Expertise by Geography
- Atlantic, North America, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- Pre-17th century, 17th century, 18th century, Early Modern
- Expertise by Topic
- American Revolution, Colonialism, Gender, Indigenous Peoples, Material Culture, Museums, Public History, Race, Sexual Violence, Slavery, Women
