Collaboration is the core of my work.

Collaboration is creative - each partnership takes a different shape. You may be interested in collaborating with me if…

  • You want to convene diverse groups of people to explore our past and how it connects to the present

  • You are looking for a subject matter expert in the areas of Indigenous history, race, & identity in the US South

  • You want to move beyond performative land acknowledgements to build true partnerships with communities

  • You want to reimagine landscapes, narratives, and spaces with a lens of Indigeneity

"Community" is not only those who live and work outside an institution's walls; your community is the people you spend the most time with. If an organization wants to serve a community better, its leaders need to belong to that community.

Native Studies Partnership with the College of the Muscogee Nation

“The Mellon Foundation has awarded Emory University and the College of the Muscogee Nation (CMN) in Oklahoma a $2.4 million grant that will help develop collaborative and independent programs advancing Native and Indigenous Studies and the preservation of the Mvskoke language in a unique partnership between the two schools.

The joint initiative in Native and Indigenous Studies is the only one of its kind in the nation between a tribal college and a private research university. The work of the initiative, and the nature of the partnership between Emory and CMN, is intended as a new approach for scholarship, teaching and collaboration that centers Indigenous knowledge and values in ways that advance all societies.”

Read more about the partnership from the Emory News Center and The Emory Wheel.

Imaging UNC’s Future through Art - Reckoning with Silent Sam

“Monuments are art, and they reflect values—they are not historical instruction and they do not reflect a historical understanding (though members of society who would like us to believe in their versions of the past have consciously labeled them as “history,” and the public is divided over whether that is at issue). In fact, what is at issue with these monuments are values, and who gets to decide what represents a community’s values.”

- Malinda Maynor Lowery

Somewhere South: It’s a Greens Thing

Chef Vivian Howard and Lumbee historian Malinda Maynor Lowery get a tour of Glenn and Dorsey Hunt ’s collard sandwich stand at Lumbee Homecoming in Pembroke, N.C., in Somewhere South: It's a Greens Thing (Season 1 Episode 5).