Blaire Morseau
She/Her
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 Religious Studies Department where she also teaches in American Indian and Indigenous Studies. Her research interests are in Indigenous science fiction and futurisms, traditional cultural and ecological knowledge, digital heritage, and Native counter-mapping. She is releasing an edited volume in October 2023 featuring the collection of nineteenth and early twentieth century birch bark books written by nineteenth century Potawatomi author Simon Pokagon titled, As Sacred to Us: Simon Pokagon’s Birch Bark Stories in their Contexts, published by Michigan State University Press.
Publications
Morseau, B., Ed. (2023). “As Sacred to Us” Simon Pokagon’s Birch Bark Stories in their Contexts. Michigan State University Press.
Morseau, B. (under review) “Indigenizing Futures in Museum Contexts.” In Native Lives, Native Truths, Wali, Alaka and Tom Skwerski (eds.). University of Chicago Press.
Morseau, B. (in production). “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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