The NAIS Center supports scholarship across the curriculum and offers opportunities for its students to share their work with their peers across campus. Our students do NAIS informed scholarship in religion, art history, anthropology, modern languages and linguistics, history, geography, etc.
Ridwan Balogun
Ridwan Balogun is religious scholar of anthropology of Islam, Indigenous and Minority Muslim Studies in Africa
Joanne Connauton
Joanne Connauton's research is with the Witsuwit'en Nation in Northwestern British Columbia, Canada. She is working on a project related to a totem pole, removed from the Witsuwit'en community of Hagwilget in 1938 and currently housed in Paris, France at the Quai Branly Museum.
Elizabeth Haire
Elizabeth Haire is an anthropologist with a specialty in southeastern archaeology working on "The Chitimacha Tribe's Migration to the Eastern Atchafalaya Basin"
Dean Michel
Dean Michel will be a Mellon Fellow at Dunbarton Oaks for the 2025-2026 academic year. He is completing a dissertation entitled: A Watery Grave in the Desert: Termination, Survivance, and the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe.
Zack Qualls
This fall, Zack Qualls will be a doctoral student. He is finishing his MA this spring where he focused on the history of Seminole art and the marketplace. He plans on continuing this work as a doctoral student.
Sheila Scoville
Sheila Scoville is a 2024–2025 Peter Buck Predoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian. She is completing a dissertation titled "Visualizing Human-Agave Symbiosis in Colonial Nahua Manuscripts."
