Msu Honors College

Heather Howard is an associate professor in the Michigan State University Department of Anthropology with affiliation to the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program, and Native American Institute. Howard’s research interests are the politics of knowledge production in cultural, heritage, health, and social service delivery organizations; community-driven methodologies; medical anthropology; indigenous peoples’ health and technologies of chronic illness management. Indigenous people and urbanization is a central focus of her research, in which she examines the evolution of urban indigenous epistemologies of community, including authority-making structures, and the production of knowledge itself as a dynamic process which intervenes in the production of politics, ethical practice, and the social order. Howard earned her doctorate from the University of Toronto.