Indigenous Humanities Lab

The HRC Indigenous Humanities Lab will create vital spaces for collaboration between our scholars, students and Virginia's tribal nations, fostering meaningful relationships that transcend traditional academic boundaries.

Students, staff, faculty, and community members whose interests intersect with the work of the lab are welcome to join. Please contact the lab director, Cristina Stanciu, at cstanciu@vcu.edu

Pamunkey gourd art of three women collecting water as a blue jay flies above them

Meet the Team

HRC

Sarah Montoya, PhD

Co-Director

Sarah Montoya's work examines the representations and material histories of technological and computational development in the U.S. through the lens of settler colonial studies. 

 

 

Contact: smontoyacw@gmail.com 

Cristina Stanciu

Cristina Stanciu, PhD

Co-Director

Cristina Stanciu is an immigrant scholar of Indigenous and Multiethnic Literatures of the United States. Her career so far has been driven by a desire to recover and recirculate Indigenous histories, understand multi-ethnic voices, texts, and archives across time and space, and to think deeply about institutions of knowledge production and dissemination (archives, print culture, spaces of education, and the academy, more broadly).

Contact: cstanciu@vcu.edu

Upcoming Meetings

Please check back soon for our Fall 2025 meetings.