Department of Anthropology

Emily Van Alst (Lakota/Anishinaabe descent) is currently a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University. She graduated from Yale University in 2016 with a double major in archaeology and anthropology.  Her dissertation project is focused on Indigenous women’s relationship to rock art, and how those images are related to the cultural and environmental landscape. Taking a diachronic approach, her research connects rock art images created in the past to contemporary landscapes and ceremonies in the present. Her work is grounded in methods of Indigenous archaeology and community-based research practices.