Meranda Roberts, PhD

I am an enrolled member of the Yerington Paiute Tribe in Nevada, as well as Chicana. I grew up in California, but traveled annually to Nevada to fish and be with family. In 2018, I earned my PhD from the University of California, Riverside in Native American history. Over the past few years, I have been working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Field Museum of Natural History; where I am helping to redevelop its seventy year old Native American exhibition hall. I recently co-curated the exhibition Aspaalooke Women and Warriors with tribal member and scholar Nina Sanders.

My passion lies in holding colonial institutions, like museums, accountable for the harmful narratives they have painted about Indigenous people. I use Indigenous methodologies, as well as public history pedagogy, to examine the harm colonialism continues to inflict onto the population so that we can move toward a more “decolonial” landscape.