Research Expertise and Interest

North America, Native American history, indigenous methodologies, Tewa philosophy, community-based research, oral history, history of physics, colonialism

Research Description

Dmitri Brown is an assistant professor in the Department of History. He is interested in the ways Native communities in the 19th and 20th centuries accommodated and resisted colonial incursions. His book in progress is a Tewa Pueblo history of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos and the dawn of the Atomic Age. By placing Tewa philosophy in dialogue with quantum physics, the work offers a new framework for understanding historical change and continuity in Pueblo and other Indigenous communities. Brown is also in the early stages of projects on Southwestern ethnobotany and cultural conceptions of madness. He is a member of Santa Clara Pueblo and has been involved in community-based research and publications.