Congratulations to NAS faculty and advisory board member, Kirby Brown, who was recently awarded with an Oregon Humanities Center VPRI Completion Fellowship for 2015-2016 and a VPRI Summer Research Stipend!  Professor Brown will use the awards to complete an article on the gendered politics of resistance in the short stories of Ruth Muskrat Bronson and his book manuscript entitled, “Stoking the Fire: Nationhood in Early Twentieth Century Cherokee Writing.”