Darren Ranco named 2023 Ford Foundation Senior Fellow
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Darren Ranco, professor of anthropology, chair of Native American Programs and faculty fellow at the Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine, was named a 2023 Ford Foundation Senior Fellow.
Ranco’s fellowship will focus on a project titled “Decolonizing Land Relations in the Dawnland: Landback and Rematriation Across Wabanakik.” The project is an extension of Ranco’s previous research with Wabanaki rematriation movements, with a more explicit goal of building Indigenous institutional capacity to advance the health and well-being of Indigenous Nations.