Miranda Belarde-Lewis
· Associate ProfessorUniversity of Washington · Information School
Active 2010–2024
About
Miranda Belarde-Lewis (Zuni/Tlingit) is an associate professor of North American Indigenous Knowledge at the iSchool and an independent curator. Her work centers on indigenous knowledge systems, examining the role of social media and the arts in protecting, documenting, and perpetuating Native information and knowledge. She highlights and celebrates Native artists, their processes, and their creations, working with tribal, city, state, and federal museums to develop Native-focused educational programming, publications, and art exhibitions. Belarde-Lewis holds a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Arizona, an M.A. in Museology, and a Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Washington. Her research and contributions focus on indigenous systems of knowledge, data sovereignty, and the intersection of indigenous arts and information practices.
Awards & honors
- Joe and Jill McKinstry Endowed Faculty Fellowship for the st…
- Best Short Paper - Association for Information Science and T…
- Project Award for the Indigenous Curation Speaker Series - C…
- 2020 Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award “for an especially distinguish…
- 2019 PROSE Subject Category Winner for Nature’s Nations: Hum…
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