Earthworks
Former Director Dr. Richard Shiels addressing a World Heritage meeting in Baker Hall. Image courtesy of Nick Franga.

People

Faculty and Scholars

Faculty and staff of The Ohio State University or other academic institutions and relevant entities, as well as elders and independent scholars, can apply for Affiliate status with the Newark Earthworks Center.
 
Affiliate status is a designation for those who are not hired to directly work for the Newark Earthworks Center but who share a demonstrated interest in the pursuit of teaching about, research on, and/or engagement with the ancestral and contemporary Indigenous places, peoples, cultures and experiences within and around Ohio.
 
Please contact Dr. John Low (low.89@osu.edu) for more information.
Beth Blostein
Professor of Architecture, Knowlton School of Architecture
The Ohio State University
Phone
614-292-1012
Cheryl Cash
Senior Lecturer, Comparative Studies, Religious Studies
The Ohio State University
Phone
740-366-9342
Marti Chaatsmith
Associate Director
Newark Earthworks Center
Phone
740-364-9575
Dr. Michael Charles
Cornell Provost’s New Faculty Fellow, Visiting Assistant Professor
Cornell University
Dr. Robert Cook
Member of the Faculty Oversight Committee
Professor of Anthropology | The Ohio State University
Phone
740-366-9159
Virginia Cope
Associate Dean and Associate Professor of English
The Ohio State University
Phone
740-366-9293
John Crissinger
Reference and Special Collections Librarian | The Ohio State University Libraries
Lecturer of Geography | The Ohio State University
Phone
740-366-9306
Megan Cromwell
Office Associate
Newark Earthworks Center | The Ohio State University
Phone
740-755-7383
Dr. Stephen M. Gavazzi
Director of CHRR, Department of Human Sciences
Professor of College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University
Phone
614-247-7911
Dr. Shannon Gonzales-Miller
Lecturer of Undergraduate Education | Undergraduate Education, Administration
College of Education and Human Ecology
Phone
(614) 292-8569
Dr. Niles Johnson
Associate Professor of Mathematics
The Ohio State University
Phone
740-755-7856
Dr. Timothy Jordan
Affiliate Faculty
Dr. Brad Lepper
Curator of Archaeology | The Ohio History Connection
Visiting Professor of Anthropology | The Ohio State University
Phone
614-298-2064
Dr. John Low
Director of the Newark Earthworks Center, Faculty Oversight Committee Member for the American Indian Studies Program
Associate Professor of Comparative Studies | The Ohio State University
Phone
740-755-7857
Dr. Teresa Lynch
Director of Chronos Laboratory
Assistant Professor of Communications| The Ohio State University
Phone
614-688-2117
Dr. Kenneth Madsen
Member of the Faculty Oversight Committee
Associate Professor of Geography | The Ohio State University
Phone
740-364-9643
Dr. Michael Mangus
Senior Lecturer of History
The Ohio State University
Phone
740-366-9196
Dr. Daniel Rivers
Associate Professor of History
The Ohio State University
Phone
614-292-5478
Dr. J. Andrew Roberts
Faculty Oversight Committee Member of the Newark Earthworks Center
Associate Professor of Behavioral Ecology, The Ohio State University
Phone
740-366-9178
Dr. Michael Sherfy
Adjunct Instructor of History
North Central State College
Dr. Michael Stamatikos
Associate Professor of Physics Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy | The Ohio State University
Founding Director of the SciDome| The Ohio State University at Newark and The Works; Chief Science Officer | The Works
Phone
740-755-7822
Dr. Binaya Subedi
Faculty Oversight Committee Member of the Newark Earthworks Center
Assistant Dean and Associate Professor of Education: Teaching and Learning | The Ohio State University
Phone
740-366-9269
Dr. Christine Warner
Member of the Faculty Oversight Committee
Associate Professor of the Department of Teaching and Learning | The Ohio State University
Phone
740-366-9401
Elissa Washuta
Faculty Oversight Committee Member of the Newark Earthworks Center
Program Director of American Indian Studies, Assistant Professor of English | The Ohio State University
Dr. Elizabeth Weiser
Faculty Oversight Committee Member of the Newark Earthworks Center
Professor of English, The Ohio State University
Phone
740-366-9175
Dr. Anna Willow
Professor of Anthropology
The Ohio State University
Phone
7407256259
Dr. Christine Ballengee-Morris placing ashes into a central fire exhibit at the Newark Earthworks Day exhibit, 2009. Image courtesy of Timothy E. Black.

“Without collective traditional ways, the earthworks would not exist. The builders’ knowledge enfolded in the everyday and the story of the everyday was passed down generation to generation; connecting who they were to who we are becoming.”

Dr. Christine Ballengee-Morris
Former Director of American Indian Studies at The Ohio State University

Members of the American Indian Studies (AIS) Advisory Committee at Ohio State University

The American Indian Studies Program Plays Several Roles at Ohio State

  1. We offer an interdisciplinary undergraduate Minor.
  2. We collaborate with other university programs and departments to develop American Indian Studies programming.
  3. We work with the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and the Multicultural Center to promote awareness of Native issues on campus and to promote the recruitment and retention of Native students.
  4. We work with departments to promote the hiring of faculty working in American Indian Studies fields.
  • Marti Chaatsmith
    (Comanche Nation, descendant of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) Associate Director of the Newark Earthworks Center
  • Cheryl Cash
    (Choctaw/Cherokee descendant), Senior Lecturer of Comparative Studies and Religious Studies, Ohio State Newark
  • Alcira Dueñas
    Associate Professor of History, Ohio State Newark
  • Shannon Gonzales-Miller
    (Ute descendant), Director of the Scholars Program, Office of Diversity and Inclusion
  • John Low
    (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi), Assistant Professor of Comparative Studies, Ohio State Newark; Tribal Representative of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi
  • Teresa Lynch
    (Lakota (Cheyenne River – Mnikȟówožu)), Director of Chronos Laboratory, Assistant Professor of Communications
  • Daniel Rivers
    (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), Associate Professor of History, Program Coordinator of American Indian Studies
  • Tim San Pedro
    Associate Professor, Education and Human Ecology
  • Elissa Washuta
    (Cowlitz Indian Tribe), Assistant Professor of English

Retired Scholars

Dr. Christine Ballengee-Morris
Professor Emeritus in the Arts Administration, Education and Policy Department
The Ohio State University
Dr. Melissa Beard-Jacob
American Indian/Indigenous Student Initiatives Intercultural Specialist
Office of Student Life, Multicultural Center | The Ohio State University
Phone
614-688-8449
Madison Eagle
Intercultural Specialist, Women's Student Initiatives
Office of Student Life, Multicultural Center | The Ohio State University
Phone
614-688-8449
Dr. Casey Hoy
Professor Emeritus in the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Former Faculty Director OSU InFACT | The Ohio State University
Phone
330-263-3611
Dr. John Hancock
Professor Emeritus
University of Cincinnati
Phone
513-556-6426
Dr. Lucy E. Murphy
Former Member of the Faculty Oversight Committee
Professor Emeritus of History | The Ohio State University
Phone
740-364-9692
Dr. Alan Price
Associate Professor Emeritus
Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD), Department of Design | The Ohio State University
Phone
614-247-8957
Dr. Richard Shiels
Former Director of the Newark Earthworks Center
Associate Professor Emeritus of History | The Ohio State University
Phone
614-292-4094
Dr. Brian Snyder
Former Executive Director of the Food and AgriCultural Transformation
Office of Academic Affairs | The Ohio State University