Darren Lone Fight
Assistant Professor of American Studies (2020).
(717) 254-8105 | lonefigd@dickinson.edu
Office: Room 303, Center for the Futures of Native Peoples
Darren Lone Fight arrives at Dickinson from the PhD program in American Studies at the University of Massachusetts. For the last two years, Darren served as visiting faculty in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University; his recent journal article in Studies in American Indian Literatures explores the political and cultural effect of Indigenous visual artists revising pop-culture iconography in their work. Darren has taught across a diverse range of institutions and organizations, ranging from research universities and small liberal arts colleges to a land conservation organization. Darren feels fortunate to have assisted his former students as a research program mentor, thesis committee member, and faculty advisor, as well as helping students publish their work, win academic awards, and organize campus events. His current work orients around ontologies of narrative and experiential reality in contemporary American Indian art and philosophy.
John Truden
(he/him/his)
Post Doctoral Fellow (2023)
(717) 254-8273 | trudenj@dickinson.edu
Office: Room 203, Center for the Futures of Native Peoples
John Truden earned his PhD in US History from the University of Oklahoma. His first book- currently under review at the University of Nebraska Press - explores Indigenous-settler relationships in Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas between Reconstruction and the Red Power era. His second book will examine Native America during the 1970s. He has published in both academic journals - notably the Western Historical Quarterly - and in more accessible forums such as Oklahoma Humanities magazine, the Osage News, and the Metro Library Podcast. John Truden worked on extensive projects with the Absentee Shawnee Tribe Cultural Preservation Office, the Seminole Nation Historic Preservation Office, and Greetham Law, the Chickasaw Nation's principal legal counsel. Among other projects at Dickinson College, he coordinates the Indigenous Consortium, a campus wide (and beyond) monthly discussion group for faculty interested in Indigenous issues. Outside of academia, John Truden and his wife Emily enjoy traveling, trying new foods, reading together, and playing with their dog Ruffles.
Daniel Schiedewind
(he/him/his)
Post Doctoral Fellow (2023).
(717) 254-8274 | schniedd@dickinson.edu
Office: Room 202, Center for the Futures of Native Peoples
Daniel Schniedewind is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Native American and Indigenous Studies appointed through the Center for the Futures of Native Peoples and the Department of American Studies. An interdisciplinary scholar of indigeneity, race, and nature, Daniel was trained in anthropology and feminist studies at UC-Santa Cruz. Daniel utilizes ethnographic, archival, and field ecology methods in researching the entangled politics of human and nonhuman difference. Drawing from Native studies, Black studies, and the environmental humanities, Daniel's current research explores how contemporary landscape practices in the Hudson Valley of New York state both interrupt and sustain deep legacies of racial slavery and settler colonialism.
Andrea Lopez
(she/her/hers)
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish & Portuguese (2021).
(717) 245-1539 | lopezand@dickinson.edu
Office: Room M05, Bosler HallB.A.
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, 2015; M.A., Vanderbilt University, 2018; Ph.D., 2021
Amalia Pesantes Villa
Assistant Professor of Anthropology (2020). | pesantma@dickinson.edu
Office: Room104, Denny Hall
I received my Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology and M.P.H. from the University of Pittsburgh in 2014. I also have a Master's degree in International Development from Clark University. My research looks at health inequalities among vulnerable populations. I study the challenges faced by Indigenous people to access culturally-appropriate health care and to have their medical traditions recognized and incorporated into state health services. I also conduct research about the experiences and health needs of underserved populations with chronic conditions. I am especially interested in research that can contribute to designing better strategies to improve healthcare access for people with diabetes and hypertension in low and middle income countries.
Jed Kuhn
(he/him/his)
Assistant Professor of American Studies (2021). | kuhnj@dickinson.edu
Office: Room 19, Denny Hall
Jedediah Kuhn's research takes a relational look at Native American-Mexican American racialization in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. He is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled Traces of Intimacy: Native Americans and Mexican Americans in the Sierra Borderlands. His recent publications include "A (Mexican) Native American Rock Band: Redbone, Racial Legibility, and Native-Chicanx Intimacy" in the April 2022 issue of American Studies. His teaching interests include Latinx studies and Chicanx studies, American cultural history, relational ethnic studies, queer studies, and queer of color critique.
Christopher Bilodeau
Associate Professor of History (2006).
(717) 245-1385 | bilodeac@dickinson.edu
Office: Room 207, Denny Hall
He focuses his research on the history of American Indian-European interaction during the American colonial period, paying particular attention to the French, English, and Indian interaction. He teaches courses on Colonial America, the American Revolution, American Indian History, and the roles that violence plays in colonial situations.