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Elan Pochedley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Michigan State University, specializing in Great Lakes Anishinaabe Knowledge, Spiritualities, and Cultural Practices. His scholarship chronicles traditional Anishinaabe stories and teachings while examining the ecological knowledge that informs the ethical responsibilities of the Anishinaabe/Neshnabé nations' citizens. Pochedley’s research particularly focuses on how technological innovations are incorporated into the Anishinaabeg/Neshnabék efforts to care for their relations with the non-human world. He earned his PhD from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota, where he also received dual graduate minors in American Indian & Indigenous Studies and Heritage Studies & Public History. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Mellon Foundation, and he completed a two-year term as a Charles Eastman Fellow at Dartmouth College. Pochedley is an enrolled citizen of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.
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