Meet Kemeyawi Q. Wahpepah, AMCS Postdoctoral Fellow, whose research and teaching explore the intersections of education, memory, and Native American and Indigenous Studies.
Kemeyawi Q. Wahpepah (Kickapoo, Sac & Fox) is Postdoctoral Fellow in American Culture Studies. Her research lies at the intersection of Education and Native American and Indigenous Studies and explores schooling, memory, and power through the lived experiences of contemporary Native and Indigenous peoples in the United States.
Her current book project, Dislodgement: An Anticolonial Pedagogy for American Schooling, draws on interviews with forty-five Native and Indigenous college students from across the United States to distill strategies for subverting settler colonialism in K-16 classrooms.
She holds a PhD in Education and an AB in Social Studies from Harvard University, as well as an MS in Middle Childhood Education from Hunter College. Before entering academia, Kemeyawi spent over a decade teaching middle and high school humanities in Boston and New York City.
In Spring 2027 Dr. Wahpepah will be teaching a new course,
AMCS 3717 The Histories & Legacies of American Indian Boarding Schools
American Indian Boarding Schools have impacted generations of Native people and shaped the United States education system in significant ways. Yet, they are rarely taught about in school. "I hopes the course will provide a meaningful and supportive space for students of all backgrounds to deepen their understanding of these institutions and begin working toward meaningful forms of repair and redress."
