Haley Rains

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Ph.D. Candidate

BA, Indigenous and American Indian Studies, Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, 2017.
MA, Native American Studies - University of California, Davis, 2021

We Are Not Your Savages: Deconstructing the Myth of the American Frontier through Native American Visual Sovereignty

2023 Provost’s Dissertation Year Fellowship in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (2023-2024), University of California, Davis
2023 Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies Graduate Student Fellowship
2022 Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, University of California, Davis

2023 Indigenous Student Seminar (Renewing Indigenous Economies), Hoover Institution, Stanford University
2022 Migrations Summer Institute: The Ongoing Afterlife of Dispossession in Africa and the Americas, Cornell University
2017 Pre-Law Summer Institute (PLSI), Native American Law Center, University of New Mexico

“We Are Not Your Savages: Deconstructing the Myth of the American Frontier through Native American Visual Sovereignty.” Western History Association, The Poetics of Power and Resistance: Studies in Visual Arts, Theory, and Poetry section. October 15, 2022. San Antonio, Texas.
“Obliterating Power Imbalances Implicit in White Constructions of Native Culture through Indigenous Visual Sovereignty.” International Association for Media and Communication, Popular Culture Section, Nairobi (virtual). June 10, 2021.

“Reservation Dogs, Visual Sovereignty, Performative Indigeneity, and the Cultural Imperative of Native American-Produced Media” in Christopher P. Campbell, ed. Race, Representation, and Satire (Lexington Books, 2023). https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/race-representation-and-satire-christopher-p-campbell/1144079870

“KALICO exhibit showcases Indigenous photos.” Daily Interlake. February 3, 2022. https://dailyinterlake.com/news/2022/feb/03/kalico-exhibit-showcases-indigenous-photos
"Of Community and Culture: A Snapshot of Tribal College Alumni.” Volume 33, No. 1 - Fall 2021. Tribal College Journal. August 23, 2021. https://tribalcollegejournal.org/of-community-and-culture-a-snapshot-of-tribal-college-alumni/
“Graduate Teaching Community Reflections: Winter 2021.” UC Davis Center for Educational Effectiveness. April 9, 2021. https://cee.ucdavis.edu/news/graduate-teaching-community-reflections-winter-2021
"UC Davis grad exhibition moves online to showcase student projects during coronavirus.” The Sacramento Bee. Author: Mitchel Bobo. May 26, 2020. https://www.sacbee.com/entertainment/arts-culture/article242975311.html

Yale University (Yale Divinity School), Hope is Ceremony: What a Tribal College Community Can Teach Us about Hope in the Face of Ecological & Cultural Crises. New Haven, CT. March 3, 2023.
KALICO Art Center, Imagining Ourselves: Celebrating Indigenous Culture, Color, and Vibrancy, Kalispell, MT. (Solo). February 5-April 30, 2022.
Manetti Shrem Museum, Arts & Humanities Graduate Exhibition, Davis, CA. May-June, 2020.