‘It’s an honour’: Renae Watchman is the first Indigenous Obama Fellow at University of Mainz – Brighter World
October 25, 2024
Indigenous Studies associate professor Renae Watchman has been selected for a prestigious Obama Fellowship in Germany, where she will work on filling a gap in scholars’ understanding of transnationalism and America.
The Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies, based at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, offers research and teaching relating to the Americas in a global context.
As part of her fellowship in November, Watchman will deliver a keynote address: “Hane’tonomy: Restoring/Re-storying Diné Presence and Futurisms with Hózhǫ́.”
Watchman, a citizen of the Navajo Nation (Shiprock Branch in New Mexico) is the first Indigenous Fellow at the Institute.
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