Holly Guise
Assistant Professor
Email: hguise@unm.edu
Phone: 505-277-2451
Education:
Ph.D., History, Yale University, 2018
M.A., History, Yale University, 2013
B.A.H., Native American Studies, Stanford University, 2009
Research Interests:
Indigenous American History, Gender History, Alaska History, World War II Pacific History, Oral History, Segregation, Empire Studies, Race & Ethnicity, Human Rights
Profile:
Holly Miowak Guise (Iñupiaq) is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of New Mexico. Her book, Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II focuses on gender, Unangax̂ (Aleut) relocation and internment camps, Native activism/resistance, and Indigenous military service during the war. Her research methods bridge together archives, tribal archives, community-based research, and oral histories with Alaska Native elders and veterans. She is interested in the colonial/Indigenous relationship during war and social history.
She launched a digital humanities website (ww2alaska.com) that features her YouTube channel (World War II Alaska) with oral history content from Native elders, veterans, and Unangax̂ internment survivors. Since 2022, she has served as an editorial board member for the Alaska History Journal. In partnership with the Alaska Humanities Forum, she has served as the historian for the documentary film Indigenous Resistance: Now and Then (2023) directed by 'Waats'asdiyei Joe Yates (Haida).
Recent/Select Publications:
Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II. University of Washington Press, 2024.
“Alaska Native Environmental Activism.” In Environmental Justice in North America, edited by Paul Rosier. Routledge Press, 2023, 155-181.
“Who is Doctor Bauer?: Rematriating a Censored Story on Internment, Wardship, and Sexual Violence in Wartime Alaska, 1941-1944.” In Western Historical Quarterly, vol 53, Issue 2, Summer 2022, 145-165. (Western History Association Arrell M. Gibson Award for the best essay of the year on the history of Native Americans, Jensen-Miller Award for the best article in the field of women and gender in the North American West, Vicki L. Ruiz Award for best article on race in the North American West, Oscar O. Winther Award for best article published in the Western Historical Quarterly (2023), Western Association of Women Historians Judith Lee Ridge Prize for best article in the field of history (2024))
“Elizabeth Peratrovich, the Alaska Native Sisterhood, and Indigenous Women’s Activism, 1945-1948.” In Suffrage at 100, edited by Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020, 146-162.
“Haycock to Anchorage: Connecting the Wartime Landscape with Stories from World War II Veteran Holger ‘Jorgy’ Jorgensen.” In Imagining Anchorage, edited by Jim Barnett and Ian Hartman. University of Alaska Press, 2018, 340-355.
“Alaskan Segregation and the Paradox of Exclusion, Separation, and Integration.” In Alaska Native Studies in the 21stCentury, edited by Beth Ginondidoy Leonard et al., Minneapolis: Two Harbors Press, 2014, 274-304.
Awards:
American Council of Learned Societies Fellow (2022)
Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow (2022)
UNM Feminist Research Institute Faculty Research Grant (2021)
The University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, at the University of California, Irvine (2019)
Native American 40 under 40, by the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development (2019)
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Native American Studies Initiative Digital Knowledge Sharing Fellow, American Philosophical Society (2017)
Ford Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellow (2013)
Bartlett Giamatti Fellow, Yale Department of History (2011)
Courses:
Survey of Native American History
Native Women’s & Gender History
Readings in Native American History
Pacific History
Oral History: Methods, Ethics & Traditions
Histories of Captivity & Incarceration
