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Blaire Morseau is a citizen of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Michigan State University. She is also an Affiliate Faculty in Digital Humanities and American Indian and Indigenous Studies. Before becoming a professor, she worked as a full-time archivist for her tribe, where she launched an online collections dictionary website called Wiwk wébthëgen, using Potawatomi cultural protocols to give access to traditional knowledge labels. Dr. Morseau has released an edited volume featuring a collection of antique birch bark books written by the 19th-century Potawatomi author, Simon Pokagon, titled Sacred Simon Pokagon’s Birch Bark Stories Contexts, published by MSU Press. She consults on exhibitions and collaborative programming in archives, libraries, and museums across the country, including the Field Museum of Natural History, Newberry Library, and Indiana University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Her research interests encompass Indigenous science fiction futurisms, traditional ecological knowledge, digital heritage, and Native counter-mapping. Her latest book project, titled Mapping Neshnabé Futurity: Celestial Currents Sovereignty Potawatomi Skies, Lands, Waters, is set to be published by University of Arizona Press in 2025 and investigates how Native peoples in the Great Lakes region leverage traditional knowledge in environmental activism through speculative fiction to reclaim Indigenous space and tribal sovereignty.
Department of Psychology