“Indiana University has selected eight faculty members for the fourth cohort of the Presidential Arts and Humanities Fellows Program. The annual program supports the work of faculty who are poised to become national and international leaders in their fields.
Holly Cusack-McVeigh is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology in the School of Liberal Arts at IU Indianapolis. Her work involves social, medical and cultural anthropology folklore studies; oral history museum studies; material culture Native American studies; and Arctic studies.
Her fellowship project is “Investigating the Challenges, Legal Processes and Ethical Practices of International Repatriation.” The fellowship will support being a visiting scholar in the Repatriation Department at Te Papa national museum in Wellington, New Zealand; academic and public presentations for repatriation teams at museums in British Columbia and Manitoba, Canada; and ongoing repatriation efforts and dialogue in Haiti and possibly with Ainu communities in Hokkaido, Japan.”
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