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Headshot of Maggie Blackhawk, posing on a porch with pillars behind her

Dr. Maggie Blackhawk

Professor at NYU and prize-winning scholar

Moses H. Grossman Professor of Law at NYU (Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe), researching the role of colonialism and Native advocacy in shaping U.S. constitutional law and history.

Dr. Maggie Blackhawk (Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe) is Moses H. Grossman Professor of Law at NYU. Her research has been published in leading law reviews including the Harvard Law Review, as well as flagship journals of history and political science. She is completing two books on the central role of American colonialism and the resistance and advocacy of Native and other colonized peoples in shaping the constitutional law and history of the United States.