Heidi Katter

Heidi Katter is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Department of History. She researches how the federal government coopted Indigenous knowledge to forward treaty- and policymaking. She is particularly interested in how federal agents (mis)translated information provided by Native peoples to facilitate extractive and settler colonial interests. Heidi looks forward to probing federal materials to reveal the Native landscapes pervading the colonial archive. She received her B.A. in History from Yale and her M.Phil. in American History from the University of Cambridge.

Graduate Fellow, 2024-2025