Elaina Berlin

The University at Albany

is a second-year PhD student in the Department of History at the University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY Albany), where she works under the advisement of Dr. Maeve Kane. Her research interests center on Indigenous history, ethnohistory, and the intersections of anthropology and archival practice in the study of Native communities and settler colonialism. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from SUNY Oswego in 2022. A native of Adams, New York, Berlin brings a strong foundation in fieldwork and archival research to her doctoral training. She has conducted guided fieldwork and archival research on the Miami nation in Indiana under the mentorship of Dr. Kane, an experience that continues to shape her scholarly approach and methodological commitments. Berlin's academic work reflects a commitment to community-engaged, historically grounded research that bridges disciplinary boundaries between history and anthropology, with particular attention to Indigenous sovereignty, memory, and the ethics of archival representation.

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