Courtesy Appointment
Courtesy Appointment: Rose Miron
Rose Miron, PhD, is a faculty affiliate and the Vice President of Research and Education at the Newberry Library. She has been at the Newbery since 2019, serving as the Director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies for five and a half years before stepping into her current role. At Northwestern, she has already co-taught a course on Native American and Indigenous Literatures with Kelly Wisecup in the English Department.
A non-Native historian, her research explores Indigenous history across the Great Lakes, especially related to public history and memory. Dr. Miron has worked on and also written about several public history projects. She is co-director of a multifaceted public history project called Indigenous Chicago, which is an extended collaboration between the Newberry Library, Native community members, and tribal nations with historic ties to the Chicago region. Prior to joining the Newberry, she served as the Program Manager for the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, where she primarily worked on the development of their digital archive project. Her work on repatriation, digital projects, and representations of Indigenous history in the public has been published in both scholarly and public-facing mediums.
Miron’s book, Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History & Memory, was published in April 2024 by University of Minnesota Press and tells the story of one tribe's efforts to recover their scattered historical materials and rewrite their history. The book won the National Council on Public History’s Book Award, which honors work that “display[s] the public aspects of their conception, development, and execution, and how they illuminate issues and concerns significant to audiences beyond the academy.” Indigenous Archival Activism was recognized as the “best book about or growing out of public history published within the previous two calendar years (2023 and 2024).”