The D’Arcy McNickle Center frequently hosts summer institutes exploring topics in American Indian and Indigenous Studies. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, these institutes feature guest lecturers in American Indian studies, American history, art history, and literature, as well as Newberry staff experts in American Indian materials in several collections, including visual arts and cartography. The institutes bring in college and university teachers, school teachers, and graduate students from across the nation for four weeks of lectures, discussions, museum visits, and opportunities for primary research in the library’s rich humanities archive. The most recent summer institute was titled “From Metacom to Tecumseh: Alliances, Conflicts, and Resistance in Native North America” and featured guest instructors from Brigham Young University, the University of Plymouth, Cornell University, and the University of Michigan.

Upcoming Program

NEH Summer Institute: The Early Republic and Indian Country, 1812-1833
July 16, 2012 to August 10, 2012
NEH Summer Institute for Teachers

Co-Directors:

Scott Manning Stevens, Ph.D., Director, McNickle Center, Newberry Library
Frank Valadez, Executive Director, Chicago Metro History Education Center

Instructors:

R. David Edmunds, Ph.D., Professor of History, University of Texas at Dallas
John W. Hall, Ph.D., Professor of U.S. Military History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ann Durkin Keating, Ph.D., Professor of History, North Central College
Susan Sleeper-Smith, Ph.D., Professor of History, Michigan State University
Scott Manning Stevens, Ph.D., Director, McNickle Center, Newberry Library
Frank Valadez, Executive Director, Chicago Metro History Education Center