From 2013 to 2017, she was the Director of American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Associate Professor in the Department of History. Her book Ogimag: Anishinaabeg leadership 1760-1845 was published with the University of Nebraska Press in 2010 and she previously has published in books such as Centering Anishinaabeg Studies: Understanding the World through Stories and the Encyclopedia of United States Indian Policy and Law.

Research Interests

• Anishinaabe leadership in the early 19th century
• Anishinaabe women’s history
• Treaties and sovereignty
• Wisconsin Indian History
• Cultures of the Great Lakes Region