Meredith McCoy

Education & Professional History

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, BA, PhD; Lipscomb University, MEd

Highlights & Recent Activity

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

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

McCoy, Meredith L., Roopika Risam, and Jennifer Guiliano. “The Future of Land-Grab Universities.” Native American and Indigenous Studies (forthcoming).

McCoy, Meredith L., Leilani Sabzalian, and Tommy Ender. “Alternative Strategies for Family History Projects: Rethinking Practice in Light of Indigenous Perspectives.” The History Teacher (forthcoming).

Jeffries, Hasan K., and Meredith L. McCoy. “Teaching Hard History Podcast, Season 2.” Teaching Hard History: American Slavery, 2019.

Shuster, Kate, Renee Gokey, Bethany Jay, Hasan K. Jeffries, Cynthia Lynn Lyerly, Meredith L. McCoy, Sarah B. Shear, and Christina Snyder. Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery — Grades 6-12. Montgomery: Southern Poverty Law Center, 2019.

Shuster, Kate, Hasan K. Jeffries, Meredith L. McCoy, Margaret Newell, Sarah B. Shear, Christina Snyder, and Ebony E. Thomas. Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery — Grades K-5. Montgomery: Southern Poverty Law Center, 2019.

Shelton, Brett Lee, Michael Johnson, Danielle R. Gartner, Meredith L. McCoy, and Rachel E. Wilbur. “Trigger Points: Current State of Research on History, Impacts, and Healing Related to the United States’ Indian Industrial/Boarding School Policy.” Boulder: Native American Rights Fund, 2019.

RedCorn, Alex, Meredith L. McCoy, and Hollie J. Mackey. “Indian Country: An Introduction to Financial and Bureaucratic Considerations.” In Funding P-12 Schools in the 50 States and Indian Country, edited by David C. Thompson, R. C. Wood, S. Neuenswander, J. M. Heim, and R. D. Watson. Gainsville, Florida: National Education Finance Academy, 2019.

McCoy, Meredith L. & Turtle Island Social Studies Collective. “Beyond Pocahontas: Learning from Indigenous Women Changemakers.” Social Studies and the Young Learner 31, no. 3 (2019): 7–13.

Organizations & Scholarly Affiliations

Tribal Nations Research Group

American Studies Association

Native American and Indigenous Studies Association

National Council for the Social Studies

American Educational Research Association

National Indian Education Association

Organization of American Historians

Peer-reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

McCoy, Meredith L., Leilani Sabzalian, and Tommy Ender. “Alternative Strategies for Family History Projects: Rethinking Practice in Light of Indigenous Perspectives.” The History Teacher (forthcoming).

Meredith L. McCoy and Villeneuve, Matthew, “Reconceiving Schooling: Centering Indigenous Experimentation in Indian Education History,” History of Education Quarterly 60, no. 4 (2020): 487–519.

McCoy, Meredith L. & Turtle Island Social Studies Collective. “Beyond Pocahontas: Learning from Indigenous Women Changemakers.” Social Studies and the Young Learner 31, no. 3 (2019): 7–13.

McCoy, Meredith L. “Preparing Preservice Educators to Teach American Indian Boarding School Histories.” In (Re)Imagining Elementary Social Studies: A Controversial Issues Reader, edited by Sarah B. Shear, Christina M. Tschida, Elizabeth Bellows, Lisa Brown Buchanan, and Elizabeth E. Saylor, 255–79. Charlotte, North Carolina: Information Age Publishing, 2018.

McCoy, Meredith L. “‘This Is Us’: Powwow and Higher Education in North Carolina.” Southern Cultures 24, no. 4 (2018): 105-120.

Invited Chapters

RedCorn, Alex, Meredith L. McCoy, and Hollie J. Mackey. 2019. “Indian Country: An Introduction to Financial and Bureaucratic Considerations.” In Funding P-12 Schools in the 50 States and Indian Country, edited by David C. Thompson, R. C. Wood, S. Neuenswander, J. M. Heim, and R. D. Watson, 211–47. Gainesville, Florida: National Education Finance Academy.

Curricular, Non-Profit, and Government Publications

Shelton, Brett Lee, Michael Johnson, Danielle R. Gartner, Meredith L. McCoy, and Rachel E. Wilbur. “Trigger Points: Current State of Research on History, Impacts, and Healing Related to the United States’ Indian Industrial/Boarding School Policy.” Boulder: Native American Rights Fund, 2019.

Jay, Bethany, Cynthia Lynn Lyerly, Meredith L. McCoy, Margaret Newell, Christina Snyder, Sarah B. Shear, and Ebony E. Thomas. Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery — Grades K-5. Washington, D.C.: Teaching Tolerance, 2019.

Jay, Bethany, Cynthia Lynn Lyerly, Hasan Jeffries, Renee Gokey, Meredith L. McCoy, Christina Snyder, and Sarah B. Shear. Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery — Grades 6-12. Washington, D.C.: Teaching Tolerance, 2019.

McCoy, Meredith L. “Tribal-State Compacts and the Future of Indian Education,” unpublished paper submitted for internal reference to the National Indian Education Association, 2017.

U.S. Department of Education. “School Environment Listening Sessions Final Report.” Washington, D.C.: White House Initiative on American Indian and Alaska Native Education, 2015. (served as an author and final lead editor while a Policy Assistant)

McCoy, Meredith L. “Red, Black, or White? The Early 20th Century Indian Families of the Sandhills and Pre-Fort Bragg Landscape.” Fort Bragg, North Carolina: U.S. Army, Fort Bragg Cultural Resources Management Program, 2008.

Invited Commentaries

McCoy, Meredith L., Roopika Risam, and Jennifer Guiliano. “The Future of Land-Grab Universities.” Native American and Indigenous Studies (forthcoming).

McCoy, Meredith L., Emma Elliott-Groves, Leilani Sabzalian, and Megan Bang. “Restoring Indigenous Systems of Relationality.” Testimony. Center for Humans and Nature, October 7, 2020. https://www.humansandnature.org/restoring-indigenous-systems-of-relationality.

Digital Publications and Public-Facing Projects

Jeffries, Hasan K., and Meredith L. McCoy. “Teaching Hard History Podcast, Season 2.” Teaching Hard History: American Slavery, 2019.

McCoy, Meredith L., and Sarah B. Shear. “This Isn’t the First Time the United States Has Split up Families.” Houston Chronicle. July 8, 2018, Online edition.

Locklear, Leslie, and Meredith L. McCoy. “Building Safe Spaces: Celebrating Teachers Who Support Native Youth.” Bit & Grain, October 4, 2017; republished by EducationNC, October 12, 2017

McCoy, Meredith L. The 90%: Stories of Diaspora from Indian Country, Founder and Site Curator, 2016-2019