The Virginia G. Piper
Center for Creative Writing

Scott Manning Stevens is Director of Native American and Indigenous Studies and Associate Professor of English and Humanities at Syracuse University. He is the author of Art of the American West: The Haub Family Collection at Tacoma Art Museum, Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North, and co-editor of Why You Can't Teach United States History Without American Indians, and his work has appeared in Early American Literature, Comparative American Studies, Prose Studies, and more. His primary interests are in Native American cultures of the Northeast from the pre-colonial period to the present, and he specializes in visual culture, museum studies, and Native American literatures. Dr. Stevens is a citizen of the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation and holds courtesy appointments as an Associate Professor of Art and Music History and an Associate Professor of Religion at Syracuse.