Inaugural Indigenous Fellow

Notes from the Charging Elk Sketchbook, 1940: A Dialogue on Art and Epistemology

Dr. Philip Deloria is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University, where he chairs the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature.

His research and teaching focus on the social, cultural and political histories of the relations among American Indian peoples and the United States, as well as the comparative and connective histories of indigenous peoples in a global context.

Deloria was recently named to President Biden’s Committee on Arts and Humanities.

He is a trustee of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, and the former president of the American Studies Association.

His books include Playing Indian(1998), Indians in Unexpected Places(2004), American Studies: A User’s Guide (2017), with Alexander Olson, and Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract (2019).