Megan Baker
· Assistant ProfessorNorthwestern University · Linguistics
Active 1979–2025
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About
Megan Baker is a sociocultural anthropologist and tribal historian who specializes in Oklahoma Choctaw law, history, and material culture. Her research and teaching consider the intersections of Indigenous sovereignty, race, economy, and the history of anthropology in North America, with particular attention to the relationship between tribal and U.S. property laws, economic development, and settler colonialism. Her book project treats historical and anthropological knowledge production on Oklahoma Choctaws as ethnographic objects to reveal how those works have informed and worked in tandem with U.S. property laws to facilitate land dispossession and challenges to Choctaw sovereignty in the current era of resurgent American Indian political-economic power. Baker's community-based projects include archiving Choctaw collections with a county historical society and collaborating with artists to study and revitalize traditional textiles and rivercane basketry. From 2019 to 2023, she worked as a Cultural Research Associate for the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma's Historic Preservation department, developing public history and community-engaged projects, serving as the editor and author of the Historic Preservation column in the Choctaw Nation's Biskinik newspaper, hosting a virtual speaker series on Choctaw history and culture, and consulting on government projects and collaborations with archives and museums. She is an expert in 19th and 20th-century Choctaw legal history and…
Research topics
- Medicine
- Internal medicine
- Oncology
- Computer Science
- Artificial Intelligence
- Natural Language Processing
- Machine Learning
- Surgery
- General surgery
- Medical emergency
Frequent coauthors
- 203 shared
Fred A. Luchette
Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital
- 164 shared
Zaid M. Abdelsattar
Loyola University Medical Center
- 92 shared
Sujay Kulshrestha
- 79 shared
Corinne Bunn
Loyola University Chicago
- 70 shared
Celsa Tonelli
Loyola University Medical Center
- 58 shared
Mark S. Talamonti
NorthShore University HealthSystem
- 45 shared
Tyler Cohn
Loyola University Medical Center
- 45 shared
James Swanson
Loyola University Chicago
Awards & honors
- Graduate Student Awards
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