American Antiquarian Society
185 Salisbury Street
Worcester, MA 01609
United States
About
Participation is intended for graduate students, college and university faculty, librarians and museum professionals, and other interested researchers.
Accessibility
PHBAC is committed to creating an environment that welcomes all people and meets their access needs. The AAS library and classroom facilities are wheelchair accessible. Other accommodations may be available upon advance request. Participants are encouraged to indicate any accessibility needs in their applications.
Application
The deadline for applications will be in April 2026.
Syllabus
Online access to the seminar readings will be provided to admitted participants.
Housing
The cost of housing is not included in the tuition fee.
Contact
For questions about the seminar, contact John J. Garcia, AAS director of scholarly programs and partnerships, at jgarcia [at] mwa.org or 508-471-2134.
Kelly Wisecup is an associate professor of English and affiliate of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research at Northwestern University. Her recent publications include the coauthored “Completing the Turn: An Introduction to the Joint Forum on Native American and Indigenous Studies Materials and Methods,” published in the William and Mary Quarterly and Early American Literature. She is also coeditor, with Lisa Brooks, of a Library of America volume of primary texts about the Plymouth colonists’ settlement on Wampanoag homelands, and she is completing a book about Indigenous interventions into archives, forthcoming from Yale University Press. Wisecup was a Peterson Fellow at AAS in 2014–15.
Kathryn Walkiewicz (walk-uh-wits) is an enrolled citizen of Cherokee Nation and an assistant professor of Literature at UC San Diego and currently serves as associate director of the Indigenous Futures Institute (IFI). Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Literature, ASAP/Journal, J19, NAIS, Transmotion, Walt Whitman Quarterly, and the Rumpus. She co-edited The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing after Removal with Geary Hobson and Janet McAdams (University of Oklahoma Press, 2010), and their most recent book , Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State, was released from the University of North Carolina Press in 2023. They held an AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society in 2021, and was elected to AAS membership in 2022.