Meet the Staff
Paul Grant-Costa
Co-Director
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Paul holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Linguistics from the University of Connecticut, a J.D. (International Law and Human Rights) from the University of Connecticut School of Law, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. He has worked as an archeological researcher in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York, Senior Researcher at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center, a post-doctoral editorial
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Tobias Glaza
Co-Director
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A former senior researcher at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center and land management coordinator for the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation, Tobias holds a M.A in Ethnobotany from Connecticut College. In addition to his more recent work with Connecticut Native people, he has worked for the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission and on a variety of projects in New England including the Boston Harbor Islands Ethnographic Assessment for the National Park Service and the federal
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Julie Fisher
Contracting Editor |
Julie holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Delaware with a focus on Early American and Native American history. Her research centers on English-colonial politics, language acquisition, and borderland communities. She is the co-author of Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts: Diplomacy, War, and the Balance of Power in Seventeenth-Century New England and Indian Country, which appeared with Cornell
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Board of Advisors
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Tisa Wenger, (Co-Chair, Faculty Advocate), Department of Religious Studies/American Studies, Yale University
Claire Bowern, (Co-Chair, Faculty Advocate), Department of Linguistics, Yale University
Lisa Brooks (Abenaki), Professor of English and American Studies, Amherst College
Jody Blankenship, Executive Director, Connecticut Historical Society & Museum
Philip J. Deloria (Dakota), American Studies, Harvard University
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui (Kanaka Maoli), Departments of American Studies and Anthropology, Wesleyan University
Alyssa Mt. Pleasant (Tuscarora), Department of Transnational Studies, The State University of New York at Buffalo
Kenneth Minkema, Executive Editor, The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Yale University
Stephen Pitti, Director, Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity and Transnational Migration, Yale University
Elizabeth Theobald Richards (Cherokee), Director of Creative Strategies, The Opportunity Agenda, NYC; Program Officer Ford Foundation (2003-2010)
David J. Silverman, Department of History, George Washington University
Harry Stout, Yale Divinity School, Department of Religious Studies, Yale University
Kendall Wiggin, Connecticut State Librarian, Connecticut State Library
J. Cedric Woods (Lumbee), Director, Institute for New England Native American Studies, Boston, MA
Claire Bowern, (Co-Chair, Faculty Advocate), Department of Linguistics, Yale University
Lisa Brooks (Abenaki), Professor of English and American Studies, Amherst College
Jody Blankenship, Executive Director, Connecticut Historical Society & Museum
Philip J. Deloria (Dakota), American Studies, Harvard University
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui (Kanaka Maoli), Departments of American Studies and Anthropology, Wesleyan University
Alyssa Mt. Pleasant (Tuscarora), Department of Transnational Studies, The State University of New York at Buffalo
Kenneth Minkema, Executive Editor, The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Yale University
Stephen Pitti, Director, Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity and Transnational Migration, Yale University
Elizabeth Theobald Richards (Cherokee), Director of Creative Strategies, The Opportunity Agenda, NYC; Program Officer Ford Foundation (2003-2010)
David J. Silverman, Department of History, George Washington University
Harry Stout, Yale Divinity School, Department of Religious Studies, Yale University
Kendall Wiggin, Connecticut State Librarian, Connecticut State Library
J. Cedric Woods (Lumbee), Director, Institute for New England Native American Studies, Boston, MA
- Advisor Emeritus: David Scott, Associate Editor, History of Parliament, London
- Advisor Emeritus: John Demos, History Department (retired), Yale University
Subject Specialists & Consultants
Nicholas Bellantoni, Connecticut State Archaeologist
Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone), History Department, Yale University
James Caudle, Research Associate, Robert Burns Editions, University of Glasgow
Christine DeLucia, History Department, Williams College
John Mack Faragher, History Department, Yale University (retired)
Jeffrey Glover, Department of English, Loyola University
Rae Gould (Nipmuc), Associate Director, Native American and Indigenous Studies Program, Brown University
Pekka Hämäläinen, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford
Russell Handsman, Research Anthropologist, Independent Consultant
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Department of History, New York University
Elizabeth Mancke, Canada Research Chair, University of New Brunswick
Daniel Mandell, Department of History, Truman State University
Michael Sletcher, Stanford University OHS, Stanford University
David Smith, Faculty of History, Cambridge University
Cheryll Toney Holley (Nipmuc), Chief and Historian of the Hassanamisco Band of Nipmuc
John Warner, Archivist of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Wendy Warren, History Department, Princeton University
Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel (Mohegan), Tribal Historian/Medicine Woman, Mohegan Tribe
Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone), History Department, Yale University
James Caudle, Research Associate, Robert Burns Editions, University of Glasgow
Christine DeLucia, History Department, Williams College
John Mack Faragher, History Department, Yale University (retired)
Jeffrey Glover, Department of English, Loyola University
Rae Gould (Nipmuc), Associate Director, Native American and Indigenous Studies Program, Brown University
Pekka Hämäläinen, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford
Russell Handsman, Research Anthropologist, Independent Consultant
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Department of History, New York University
Elizabeth Mancke, Canada Research Chair, University of New Brunswick
Daniel Mandell, Department of History, Truman State University
Michael Sletcher, Stanford University OHS, Stanford University
David Smith, Faculty of History, Cambridge University
Cheryll Toney Holley (Nipmuc), Chief and Historian of the Hassanamisco Band of Nipmuc
John Warner, Archivist of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Wendy Warren, History Department, Princeton University
Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel (Mohegan), Tribal Historian/Medicine Woman, Mohegan Tribe
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Editorial Alumni Michael Sletcher, Senior Associate Editor, 2009-2014 Adrina Garbooshian, Consulting Editor, 2011-2012 Brian Parker, Photographer, 2009-2013 Allen Phillips, Travel Photographer, 2012 Rachel Sayet, Mohegan Visiting Native Scholar, 2013 Matthew Ryan (Central Connecticut State University), Editorial Intern, 2012-2013 Gabe Benjamin (Central Connecticut State University), Editorial Intern, 2014 Zoe Waldman (Brandeis University), Editorial Assistant, Summer 2014 Anya Montiel (Yale), Native Editorial Assistant, 2014 Ryan Hall (Yale), Editorial Assistant, 2014 Justin Brooks (Yale), Editorial Assistant, 2014 Justin Hawkins (Yale), Editorial Assistant, 2014 Emily Van Alst (Yale), Native Editorial Assistant, 2014 Sharon Welch (Yale), Native Editorial Assistant, 2014 Kyle Armstrong (Central Connecticut State University), Editorial Intern, 2015 Zachary Dann (Central Connecticut State University), Editorial Intern, 2015 Sebi Medina-Tayac (Yale), Native Editorial Intern, 2015 Marc Strickland (Yale), Native Editorial Intern, 2015 Peter Cherry (Wayne State University), Research Assistant, 2015 Patricia Mandernach (Wayne State University), Research Assistant, 2015 Liam Ahern (Yale University), Editorial Assistant, 2017 Anya Montiel (Yale University), Native Editorial Assistant, 2018 Sarah Babinski (Yale University), Editorial Assistant, 2019 |
Yale Indian Papers Project Advisory Board (2013)
Back Row (L-R): Kendall Wiggin, John Demos, Tobias Glaza, Jay Gitlin, Kate Steinway, Michael Sletcher, John Faragher, Ken Minkema, David Scott, Peter Spang
Front Row (L-R): Faith Davison, Margaret Powell, Paul Grant-Costa, Betsy Theobald Richards |
