Department of History

Drew received her B.A. from Denison University and M.A. from Bard Graduate Center. She worked as an archaeologist for the National Park Service in northern Minnesota and southeastern Alaska, and as a Repatriation Specialist for the Field Museum where she helped return cultural items and ancestral human remains to Native Nations and Indigenous communities around the world. Her research interests lie in examining how North American Indigenous ontologies and practices of healing were translated into use by Early Modern medical practitioners in Western Europe. She plans to continue exploring how methodologically embodied research can be used to examine cultural hybridity and support inclusive histories of medicine.