Noelle Marie Iati

Noelle (they/she) is a Ph.D. student whose research focuses on the role violence against Indigenous women has played in American state formation, with particular attention to enduring legacies of resistance and possibilities of transformative change. Noelle holds an M.A. in Women’s & Gender History from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, a B.A. with concentrations in Politics, History, and Gender & Sexuality Studies from the same, and an A.A. from Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Though trained as a historian, their work directly challenges the disciplinary rigidity characteristic of the historical establishment, utilizing concepts from anthropology, sociology, economics, and political science as analytical tools and valuing artistic expression, storytelling, and oral history equally to the written word. Noelle’s work has been presented at the American Society for Ethnohistory Conference and the Sarah Lawrence College Women’s History Conference and published in the journal Essays in History. Noelle comes to O’ahu from Brooklyn, New York, land historically stewarded by Canarsie Lenape, and grew up on Lenni Lenape land in northwestern New Jersey.