People

Academy Research Fellow
Principal Investigatorreetta.humalajoki@utu.fi

Reetta’s research background is in the history of Indigenous national and transnational political activism and federal Indian policy in the United States and Canada, from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Her work is based on thorough archival research and oral history interviews, coupled with a theoretical grounding in settler colonial studies and Indigenous studies.

Postdoctoral Researcheralice.baroni@utu.fi

Alice’s expertise is on the political theory of asymmetric solidarity. She mobilizes the conceptual lenses of decolonial studies, social movement studies, and black feminist studies, as well as her extensive experience in ethnographic and reflexive methodologies. Alice has previously worked on the politics of asymmetric solidarity among Israeli activists for Palestinian rights.

Assistant Professor
Radboud University
laura.devos@ru.nl

Laura’s research focuses on North American Indigenous social movements and international solidarity with those movements. Their method combines a theoretical grounding in Indigenous, settler colonial, and literary studies with taking seriously practice and story. To this project, Laura is contributing research on Dutch and Belgian solidarity with North American Indigenous social movements between 1970 and 2000.

Lecturer
University of Stirling
gyorgy.toth@stir.ac.uk

György specializes in the transatlantic relations and memory politics of radical Red Power. He brings to bear on this topic archival research methods and approaches from Transnational US Studies, Performance Studies, and Native American History. His first book, From Wounded Knee to Checkpoint Charlie (SUNY Press, 2016) uncovered the alliance between the radical Native American sovereignty movement and solidarity groups in Central Europe across the iron curtain.