Project Team and Funding

Project Director:  Guntram H. Herb, Ph.D.

Field Researcher / Creative Consultant:  Patricia LeBon Herb, enrolled member, Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians

Student Research Assistants, Middlebury College:

        • Lea LeGardeur ’17
        • Abigail Spector ’17
        • Patrick Baldwin Schmidt ’18
        • Anna Cerf ’18
        • Meiriely Amaral ’19
        • Zach Levitt ’20
        • Rachel Kang ’19
        • Frank Wyer ’15
        • Stephanie Ovitt ’16

Creative and Technical Support at Middlebury College:

        • Kristina Golubiewski-Davis, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Fellow for the Digital Liberal Arts Initiative, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow 2016-2017)
        • Alicia Peaker, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Fellow for the Digital Liberal Arts Initiative, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow 2015-2016)
        • Bill Hegman, M.S. (GIS Specialist and Teaching Fellow)
        • Jason Mittell, Ph.D. (Professor and Chair of Film and Media Culture)

I am profoundly grateful for generous funding from the following institutions:

        • National Endowment of the Humanities.  Fellowship, Summer Institute “On Native Grounds”, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, June-July 2015.
        • Digital Liberal Arts at Middlebury College, a Mellon-funded initiative to foster digital scholarship and collaboration.  Sabbatical Faculty Fellowship, Fall Semester 2016.
        • Digital Native American Studies Project, Workshop at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, May 2017
        • Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship for Higher Education of Present and Prospective Teachers, summer 2017
        • Middlebury College. Long-Term Professional Development Fund,  Faculty Professional Development Fund, Faculty Research Assistant Fund.
        • Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Student Research Assistance Fund