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Rose Miron

Vice President of Research and Education at the Newberry Library

BA, History, University of Minnesota; PhD, American Studies, University of Minnesota
Curriculum Vitae

Interests

Geographic Field(s):  American History, Before 1900; American History, Since 1900

Thematic Field(s):  Colonial, Imperial, & Diasporic History; Gender and Sexuality History

Principal Research Interest(s):  American Indian and Indigenous History in the Great Lakes, Public History and Memory

Biography

Dr. Rose Miron is 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 5.5 years before stepping into her current role. A non-Native historian, her research explores Indigenous history across the Great Lakes, especially related to public history and memory. In addition to academic publishing, Dr. Miron has also worked on and 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.

Affiliated Programs

  • Adjunct Faculty, History Department, Northwestern University
  • Affiliate Faculty, Center for Native American and Indigenous Research, Northwestern University

Select Publications

  • Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory (University of Minnesota Press, 2024)
  • Indigenous Chicago, Comic Book Catalog. Co-authored with Haku Blaisdell and Analu Maria Lopez, Newberry Library.
  • “The Story of Chicago’s Founding Erases Centuries of Contributions from Indigenous People” Chicago Tribune, November 22, 2023, https://www.chicagotribune.com/2023/11/22/rose-miron-the-story-of-chicagos-founding-erases-centuries-of-contributions-from-indigenous-peoples/
  • “Archaeology and Social Justice in Native America” Co-authored with Nicholas C. Laluk, Lindsay M. Montgomery, Rebecca Tsosie, Christine Diindiisi McCleve, Stephanie Russo Carroll, Joseph Aguilar, Ashleigh Big Wolf Thompson, Peter Nelson, Jun Sunseri, Isabel Trujillo, Georgeann M. Deantoni, Greg Castro, and Tsim Schneider in American Antiquity,
  • “Gathering the Records of U.S. Indian Boarding Schools in Pursuit of Truth, Healing, and Justice” Co-authored with Christine Diindiisi McCleave, in Digital Mapping and Indigenous America, (New York: Routledge Press, 2021).
  • “Fighting for the Tribal Bible: Mohican Politics of Self-Representation and Repatriation,” Native American and Indigenous Studies, 5 no. 2 (Fall 2018): 91-122.
  • “Statues, National Monuments, and Settler-Colonialism: Connections between Public History and Policy in the Wake of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante,” National Council on Public History Blog: History@Work, December 18, 2017, http://ncph.org/history-at-work/statues-national-monuments-settler-colonialism/.
  • “Sacrificing Comfort for Complexity: Presenting Difficult Narratives in Public History,” National Council on Public History Blog: History@Work. April 24, 2014, http://ncph.org/history-at-work/sacrificing-comfort-for-complexity/.