Collaborations
Artist: Lawerence Paul Yuxweluptun, Usufruct
Native American and Indigenous Studies at Princeton
Princeton’s Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative (NAISIP) fosters a cross-disciplinary dialogue among faculty, students, staff, and community members whose research and teaching interests focus on Indigenous peoples. This initiative seeks to increase awareness and understanding of the cultural traditions and experiences of Indigenous people in the Western Hemisphere and globally. The goal is to transform Indigenous-settler relationships in our research, classrooms, and practices.
Grave of Theyandanegea, Captain Joseph Brant, Canada
Material Economies of Religion in the Americas: Arts, Objects, Spaces, Mediations
The Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion (MAVCOR) is about the study of the religious lives of things (pictures, objects, monuments, buildings, and spaces, for example). It directs attention to the pressures of secularization theory on past and present material practices and ideas about them. MAVCOR Project Cycle II: Material Economies of Religion in the Americas: Arts, Objects, Spaces, Mediations is an international, multi-institutional collaboration that began in the summer of 2016. The collaboration’s forty-plus fellows will convene three times in interdisciplinary research seminars although a fourth international conference will take place soon in 2022.