Many at the University remember Laura De Vos for their engaging academic discussion and the students for their wonderful teaching as an AIS lecturer. We are proud to share that last week Laura was announced as the 2021 winner of the Beatrice Medicine Award for Best Published Academic Essay for their essay “Spiralic Time and Cultural Continuity for Indigenous Sovereignty: Idle No More and The Marrow Thieves” which was published in Transmotion 6.2. The award is bestowed by the members of the Native American Literature Symposium and Association for the Study of American Indian Literature and highlights exceptional work published in the field of Indigenous studies in the year 2020.
This was Laura's first peer-reviewed published article, and we look forward to seeing what comes next. You can read the full essay here.