Dr. Julia Lewandoski

Biography

Julia Lewandoski is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, San Diego. Her research focuses on early Native America, particularly how Indigenous nations interacted with European empires and emerging nation-states through law and cartography. Her book, 'Land Tenure Survival: Imperial Law Indigenous Creativity Treaty Era', explores the patterns of settler colonialism and Indigenous survival in eighteenth and nineteenth-century North America. Her scholarly interests include the Abenakis, Sokokis of Quebec, Louisiana’s Petites Nations, the Tongva, Tataviam, and Chumash peoples of the Los Angeles Basin. Lewandoski argues that instead of being merely victims of erasure or military aggression, these nations employed a strategy of defending their territories while asserting their sovereignty against American private land ownership. She is committed to public history and community-engaged projects, having contributed to the development of the Digital Atlas of California Indians. Lewandoski completed her Ph.D. in History with a Designated Emphasis in Science and Technology Studies from the University of California, Berkeley in 2019.

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