Earthworks

Dr. John Low

Director of the Newark Earthworks Center, Faculty Oversight Committee Member for the American Indian Studies Program, Member of the Ohio State Newark/Central Ohio Technical College Advisory Council for Diversity and Inclusion
Email
low.89@osu.edu
Phone
740-755-7857
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192 LeFevre Hall 
1199 University Drive 
Newark, Ohio 43055

 

Areas of Expertise

  • American Indian Studies, local and global Indigenous studies
  • Museum Studies, Material Culture, and Representation
  • Federal Indian law and treaty rights

 

Education

  • PhD., University of Michigan
  • J.D., University of Michigan

 

Dr. John N. Low received his PhD. in American Culture at the University of Michigan, and is an enrolled citizen of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians. He is also the recipient of a graduate certificate in Museum Studies and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Michigan. He earned a BA from Michigan State University, a second BA in American Indian Studies from the University of Minnesota, and an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago.

Professor Low previously served as Executive Director of the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian in Evanston, Illinois, and served as a member of the Advisory Committee for the Indians of the Midwest Project at the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry Library, and the State of Ohio Cemetery Law Task Force. He has presented frequently at conferences including the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA)), American Society for Ethnohistory (ASE) and the Organization of American Historians (OAH). He continues to serve as a member of his tribes’ Traditions and Repatriation Committee.

 

Ongoing Newark Earthwork's Center's Research

 

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John Low