Blaire Morseau
She/Her/Hers
Wells Hall
619 Red Cedar Rd
East Lansing, MI 48824
www.blairemorseau.com/
blaire-morseau-a10554278/
FacultyReligious StudiesAmerican Indian and Indigenous Studies
Assistant Professor
1855 Professor of Great Lakes Anishinaabe Knowledge, Spiritualities, and Cultural Practices
Biography
Blaire Morseau is a citizen of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians and Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Michigan State University where she is also Affiliate Faculty in Digital Humanities and American Indian and Indigenous Studies. Before becoming a professor, she worked as her tribe’s first full-time archivist, launching an online collections and dictionary website called Wiwkwébthëgen (wiwkwebthegen.com) using traditional Potawatomi cultural protocols of access and traditional knowledge labels. She recently released an edited volume featuring the collection of antique birch bark books written by 19th century Potawatomi author, Simon Pokagon, titled, As Sacred to Us: Simon Pokagon’s Birch Bark Stories in their Contexts, published by MSU Press. Dr. Morseau consults on various exhibitions and collaborative programming for archives, libraries, and museums around the country including the Field Museum of Natural History, The Newberry Library, and The Indiana University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Her research interests are in Indigenous science fiction and futurisms, traditional cultural and ecological knowledge, digital heritage, and Native counter-mapping. She is currently working on a new book project–a monograph titled, Mapping Neshnabé Futurity: Celestial Currents of Sovereignty in Potawatomi Skies, Lands, and Waters, published by the University of Arizona Press with a spring 2025 release date.
Courses
REL 306 Native American Religions
Publications
Morseau, B. (forthcoming) “Indigenizing Futures in Museum Contexts.” In Native Lives, Native Truths, Wali, Alaka and Tom Skwerski (eds.). University of Chicago Press.
Morseau, B. (forthcoming) “Chicago as a Gathering Space.” In Native Lives, Native Truths, Wali, Alaka and Tom Skwerski (eds.). BAR.Morseau, B., Ed. (2023). “As Sacred to Us” Simon Pokagon’s Birch Bark Stories in their Contexts. Michigan State University Press.
Morseau, B. (2023). “Coding Potawatomi Cosmologies: Elements of Bodwéwadmi Futurisms.” In The Routledge Companion to Alternative Futurisms, Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva, Grace Dillon, Isiah Lavender III, and Taryne Jade Taylor (eds.).
Topash-Caldwell, B. (2020). Sovereign Futures in Neshnabé Speculative Fiction, Borderlands Journal, 19(2): 29-62.
Topash-Caldwell, B. (2020). “Beam Us Up, Bgwëthnėnė!” A Discussion of Indigenizing Science (Fiction), Technology, Engineering, and Math, AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 16(2): 81-89.
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