Dr. Schrems To Serve on the National Advisory Committee for the Native American Initiative

Associate Professor of History and Coordinator of Native American Studies Melissane Schrems has been selected to serve on the National Advisory Committee for the Native American Initiative at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont. In this role, Schrems will work with other committee members to advise on the care and presentation of a collection of Native American art as well as the construction of a building “and integrated landscape designed to create a national resource for the study and care of Indigenous art.”

Schrems' research interests include Native American, European and African diasporic, and settler-colonial American history. She has taught courses on Native American history, colonial British America, African American, and Adirondack history. Schrems is currently working on a piece for Humanities NY for its Land, Liberty and Loss Project and holds a doctorate in history from Boston University.