Treatied Spaces

HIKE: “Brightening the Covenant Chain” Soundscape: a new and creative route to experiencing the past Jul 3, 2023 - Nov 29, 2024
This project requests critical support to showcase an immersive Soundscape of historic Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) diplomatic orations and songs at significant North American and UK heritage sites and museums. Funding is requested to establish iPad kios... Read More about HIKE: “Brightening the Covenant Chain” Soundscape: a new and creative route to experiencing the past.

HIKE: Indigenizing the Curriculum: engaging with Indigenous histories Mar 1, 2024 - May 11, 2025
This project requests urgent HIKE support to facilitate the dissemination of the Treatied Spaces Research Group’s (TSRG) innovative work Indigenizing the UK History curriculum, at the prestigious Historical Association Annual Conference (10-11 May 20... Read More about HIKE: Indigenizing the Curriculum: engaging with Indigenous histories.

Treatied States of America: Interior Diplomacy and the Contest for (Native) American Resources Sep 1, 2024 - Aug 31, 2027
Between them, Britain and the United States concluded nearly 1000 agreements with Native American nations. Historians have dismissed treaties as instruments of colonial and then national domination, and in doing that have obscured their internationa... Read More about Treatied States of America: Interior Diplomacy and the Contest for (Native) American Resources.

What Would Nixon Do?:The Forgotten Republican Roots of American Environmentalism’ Sep 1, 2019 - Mar 2, 2023
At a critical juncture in environmental history, when conventional warnings are dismissed by conservative voters as ‘fake news’, the research will engage with conservative and Republican traditions by asking: ‘What Would Nixon Do?’ The study will ex... Read More about What Would Nixon Do?:The Forgotten Republican Roots of American Environmentalism’.

Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship - Damien Lee Aug 1, 2024 - May 31, 2025
Before colonization, Indigenous Peoples in Canada had their own complex systems of government. Dr. Lee Damien, Canada Research Chair in Biskaabiiyang and Indigenous Political Resurgence, aims to increase our understanding of the significance of the p... Read More about Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship - Damien Lee.

Green Toolkit for a New Space Economy May 16, 2022 - Aug 15, 2022
*Retrospective award from successful pitch*

To design a rigorous toolkit enabling industry to evaluate the social and environmental impact of the entire lifecycle of space projects. The toolkit would benefit industry, governments and users by offe... Read More about Green Toolkit for a New Space Economy.

Brightening the Covenant Chain: Revealing Cultures of Diplomacy Between the Crown and the Iroquois Apr 1, 2021 - Sep 30, 2024
This project will showcase cultures of diplomacy between the British Crown and the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee), focusing specifically on the range of objectives listed below. Although the processes surrounding settlement of American lands have been expl... Read More about Brightening the Covenant Chain: Revealing Cultures of Diplomacy Between the Crown and the Iroquois.

Mahogany, Enslaved Africans, Miskito Indigenous People at Chiswick House, Kenwood and Marble Hill, North London Sep 1, 2021 - Aug 31, 2025
Mahogany was once a highly esteemed luxury commodity, but now is emblematic of environmental degradation. This studentship will explore the cultural significance and exceptional intercultural narrative surrounding mahogany in U.K. heritage environmen... Read More about Mahogany, Enslaved Africans, Miskito Indigenous People at Chiswick House, Kenwood and Marble Hill, North London.

Using computer vision to recover Indigenous presence and knowledge via a genealogy of colonial maps of America Mar 1, 2022 - Oct 1, 2022
I propose an exploratory analysis on how we can use machines to extract and compare text from 50 pre-modern colonial maps, to create a genealogy that will help historians quantify and visualise how Indigenous knowledge played an essential role in Eur... Read More about Using computer vision to recover Indigenous presence and knowledge via a genealogy of colonial maps of America.

Conquest and the ‘Right to Hold’: Territorial Sovereignty and the American Revolution Oct 1, 2017 - Dec 31, 2018
Historians hold these truths to be self-evident: that the ideological origins of the American Revolution lie in arguments about political rights, which were conducted exclusively within English and European frameworks of political ideas. This project... Read More about Conquest and the ‘Right to Hold’: Territorial Sovereignty and the American Revolution.

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