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Janna "Jai" Rogers

janna.rogers@okstate.edu

Advisor: Brian Hosmer

Research Interests: U.S. History, Race and Ethnicity, and Public (Applied) History, with a graduate certificate in Museum and Curatorial Studies

Bio

Janna Rogers is a decolonization scholar. Janna's work includes Indigenous methodologies, social, cultural, and applied methods of research. In 2019, her master's thesis (Decolonizing Cherokee History 1790-1830s: American Indian Holocaust, Genocidal Resistance, and Survival) framed Cherokee assimilation and forced removal within the lens of Genocide and Holocaust Studies. The research for her doctoral dissertation is rooted in the history of stealing Indigenous dead from their graves. As a professional historian she is founder of ONAN Cross-Cultural Forums, founder and benefactor of "Bennett Beautification" a rural cemetery rehabilitation project, and she sits on the editorial board of the International Journal of Comparative Psychology (IJCP).

MA Thesis: "Decolonizing Cherokee History 1790-1830s: American Indian Holocaust, Genocidal Resistance, and Survival"