Congratulations to Danika Medak-Saltzman, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, for winning an award  from the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) for having published the Most Thought Provoking Article in Native American and Indigenous Studies for 2010!

Her article,  “Transnational Indigenous Exchange: Rethinking Global Interactions of Indigenous Peoples at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition” was published in 2010 in a special issue of American Quarterly titled “Alternative Contact: Indigeneity, Globalism and American Studies.” The entire issue received special recognition from the American Studies Association in 2011 and has been published as a book by Johns Hopkins University Press.

Medak-Saltzman will spend the 2012-13 academic year as a Katrin H. Lamon Fellow at the School for Advanced Research (SAR) in Santa Fe, N.M., completing her book manuscript, Specters of Colonialism: Native Peoples, Visual Cultures, and Colonial Projects in the U.S. and Japan (1860-1904), forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press.

Johns Hopkins University Press Release