voc ep 83: Dr. Elizabeth Rule

Dr. Elizabeth Rule
(Courtesy American University)

Dr. Elizabeth Rule is Assistant Professor of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies at American University. She is an enrolled citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. Rule’s research on indigenous issues has been featured in the Washington Post, The Atlantic, and NPR, among many other outlets. She is author of Indigenous DC: Native Peoples and the Nation’s Capital (Georgetown University Press), and of the Guides to Indigenous DC, Indigenous Baltimore, and Indigenous Maryland mobile internet applications.

Beyond the classroom, Rule presents her research by delivering talks on Native American issues to, for example, the United Nations Association-USA, the Institut des Amériques in Paris, France, the National Congress of American Indians, the Women’s and Gender Studies Intellectual Forum at MIT, the National Gallery of Art, and many others.

Rule is a leading proponent of engaging the general public with the Native and Indigenous heritage of local communities. Guide to Indigenous Maryland is a multi-faceted community engagement initiative of the Maryland State Library Agency and Maryland’s public libraries. The project aims to teach Marylanders about the history of local Native and Indigenous peoples and how their heritage influences contemporary life in Maryland. Content for the app and website is based on crowdsourced contributions and recommendations from individual Native and Indigenous Marylanders, as well as tribal nations heritage organizations in collaboration with Maryland’s public libraries. Rule previously developed and launched the Guide to Indigenous DC, and the Guide to Indigenous Baltimore.

Guide to Indigenous Maryland is supported in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, through the Library Services and Technology Act, administered by the Maryland State Library Agency via the Prince George’s County Memorial Library System. www.indigenousmd