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Jolene K. Rickard is an Associate Professor at Cornell University's Department of History of Art and Art within the College of Arts and Sciences. She previously served as Director of the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program (2008–2020). A visual historian, artist, and curator, her work bridges Native American/Indigenous Studies, Settler Colonial Studies, and Art History. Her research explores Indigenous sovereignty, anti-colonial artistic strategies, and place-based knowledge systems.
Education: Ph.D. in American Studies and History of Art and Visual Studies from the University at Buffalo - SUNY. Her current book project examines Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' stone carving through Haudenosaunee cosmology. Recent curatorial projects include 'Deskaheh in Geneva' (2023) and co-curation for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.
Research focuses on hemispheric entanglements of art, ecology, and migration in the Americas, funded by Global Cornell and Mellon Foundation. Awards include the 2024 New Frontier Grant and 2020 Fulbright Scholarship. She advises institutions like the Royal Ontario Museum and contributes to projects such as GRASAC and the Forge Project’s Indigenous Steering Council.
Her work emphasizes Indigenous perspectives in public spaces, decolonizing museum practices, and redefining temporal relationships beyond Western modernity. Active in initiatives like the Otsego Institute for Native American Art and Cornell’s Society for the Humanities 'Repair' theme.
