Diné College Libraries is proud to partner with the Native American Studies Minor program in offering a chance for our campus and general community to engage with the critical research being conducted by Diné doctoral students about Diné people. Dissertations make up an important library resource that our students utilize in their own research. This event page is dedicated to providing information about this series, as well as accompanying materials to support these important conversations.
These statements are all too commonly presented to graduate students who dedicate years to a research topic, pressuring them to wrap up their dissertation without thought to how it will be received by the readers outside of their committee. But what happens when dissertations about Indigenous peoples are read and more importantly, what happens when the people who were written about have a chance to respond to those studies?
When We Read What They Wrote is a series co-sponsored by the Native American Studies Minor program and the Diné College Libraries dedicated to the review of dissertation research on, with, and/or by Indigenous peoples. This series will bring doctoral studies into a contemporary light, allowing for both the dissertation author and the Diné College community to reflect upon research findings, challenges to conducting research, successes of the projects, hindsight alterations to the research, and current status of projects after dissertation periods.
While title of this series was inspired by the collection of essays in When They Read What We Write: Politics of Ethnography (1996) edited by
Join us for a reflection talk by Dr. Gregory I. Redhouse, Native American Studies Assistant Professor at Diné College on his dissertation focusing on the experiences of Native American Veterans in higher education.
