Dr. Jacki Rand

Biography

Jacki Rand (citizen, Choctaw Nation Oklahoma) joined the American Indian Studies Program in 2021 and has a joint appointment serving as Associate Vice Chancellor for Native Affairs at the University of Illinois. Her current research interests focus on federal Indian law policy, settler colonialism, and global indigenous histories. Rand is producing a book manuscript on the violence against Native women, contextualized in the history of southeastern tribes in the late twentieth century. She teaches courses in the history of Native North America, federal Indian law policy, museums, human rights, and public history, and is developing a course on global indigenous peoples and settler colonialism. Rand is a member of the editorial board of the Native American Indigenous Studies Association Journal and is a co-founder of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) American Indian Studies Consortium, having served on its Executive Committee from 2000 to 2006. She organized the CIC AIS graduate research conference in 1999 at the University of Iowa. Before entering graduate school, Rand worked at the Smithsonian Institution from 1983 to 1994, where from 1990 to 1994 she organized numerous consultations between senior staff members at the National Museum of the American Indian and Native community members across the United States. She graduated with a doctoral degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1998.

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