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Philip J. DeloriaÌýis a Professor of History at Harvard ³Ô¹ÏÍø, where his research and teaching focus on the social, cultural and political histories of the relations among American Indian peoples and the United States. He is the author of several books, includingÌýPlaying Indian(Yale ³Ô¹ÏÍø Press, 1998),ÌýIndians in Unexpected Places(³Ô¹ÏÍø Press of Kansas, 2004),ÌýAmerican Studies: A User’s Guide(³Ô¹ÏÍø of California Press, 2017), with Alexander Olson, andÌýBecoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract(³Ô¹ÏÍø of Washington Press, 2019), as well as two co-edited books and numerous articles and chapters. Deloria received the Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale ³Ô¹ÏÍø in 1994, taught at the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado, and then, from 2001 to 2017, at the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Michigan, before joining the faculty at Harvard in January 2018. Deloria is a trustee of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, where he chairs the Repatriation Committee. He is former president of the American Studies Association, an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the recipient of numerous prizes and recognitions, and will serve as president of the Organization of American Historians in 2022.