Meredith McCoy

Education & Professional History

Lipscomb University, EdM; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, PhD

At Carleton since 2019.

Highlights & Recent Activity

Books

On Our Own Terms: Indigenous Histories of School Funding and Policy. Indigenous Education. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2024.

Teaching Indigenous Studies: An Introduction for K-12 Educators. Equity and Social Justice in Education. New York: Routledge, In press (expected early 2027). With Leilani Sabzalian and Helen Thomas.

Research Collaborations

Co-director of the Carleton Indigenous Engagement in Place Initiative, 2023-2026

Member of the Turtle Island Social Studies Collective, 2019-2026

Co-director, curriculum developer, and oral historian, Indigenous Chicago, a partnership with the Newberry Library and the Chicago American Indian Community Collaborative, 2020-2026

Illinois Inclusive Social Studies Framework Committee, 2026

Consultant on the Project Leadership Team, LandBack Universities, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis, 2022-2024

Selected articles

McCoy, Meredith L. “Pausing and Contributing towards Indigenous Futures: A Pedagogical Reflection on College History Classrooms.” Curriculum Inquiry (2024).

“An Exploratory Analysis of Elementary and Secondary Education Funding Levels for American Indians and Alaska Natives from 1980 to 2017.” Journal of Education Finance 48, no. 2 (2022). With Jeffrey D. Burnette.

“Indigenous Futurities and the Responsibilities of Social Studies.” In Critical Race Theory and Social Studies Futures: From the Nightmare of Racial Realism to Dreaming Out Loud, edited by Amanda E. Vickery and Noreen Naseem Rodríguez. New York: Teachers College Press, 2022.

“Insurgence Must Be Red: Connecting Indigenous Studies and Social Studies Education for Anticolonial Praxis.” In Insurgent Social Studies: Scholar-Educators Disrupting Erasure & Marginality, edited by Sarah B. Shear, Natasha Hakimali Merchant, and Wayne Au. Myers Education Press, 2022. As part of the Turtle Island Social Studies Collective.

““American Indian” as a Racial Category in Public Health: Implications for Communities and Practice.” American Journal of Public Health 111, no. 11 (2021): pp. 1969-1975. With Danielle R. Gartner and Rachel E. Wilbur.

“The Future of Land-Grab Universities.” Native American and Indigenous Studies 8, no. 1 (2021). With Roopika Risam and Jennifer Guiliano

“Reconceiving Schooling: Centering Indigenous Experimentation in Indian Education History.” History of Education Quarterly 60, no. 4 (2020). With Matthew Villeneuve.

“Restoring Indigenous Systems of Relationality.” Testimony. Center for Humans and Nature, October 7, 2020. With Emma Elliott-Groves, Leilani Sabzalian, and Megan Bang.