Marcella is an interdisciplinary artist and Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of New Mexico. Her research areas are on the varying relationships between Native art and history, sound studies, remix culture, archival analysis, queer Indigenous critique, and land justice. The Art History courses she teaches at UNM consider a range of theoretical approaches and methodologies for the anti-colonial study of Indigenous visuality and soundscapes.
She received a PhD in American Studies from the University of New Mexico, an MA from the University of Washington’s Native Voices program for Indigenous documentary film and research methodologies, and a BA in Ethnic Studies from Mills College. Marcella is Gunflint Lake Ojibwe and an enrolled member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior and has heritage that includes Eastern European ancestry.
Courses:
Modern and Contemporary Native American Art
Community Scholarship and Heritage Preservation
Visual Sovereignty and the Archive
Queer Indigenous Expressions
Native Art and Feminism
Remix Culture
Sound Studies