Curriculum Vitae

Short Bio:

Matt Villeneuve (Turtle Mountain Chippewa descent) is Assistant Professor of U.S. History and Native American and Indigenous Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he teaches courses in American Indian History, Native education, and environmental history. His research focuses on Native histories of education and schooling. His first book project, Instrumental Indians: John Dewey and Indigenous Schools, is an intellectual history of America’s most prominent philosopher of education and democracy and his relationship to the anti-democratic nature of federal Indian schooling. His current book project, Seven Generations of Native Education: From Land to the Liberal Arts at Morris, Minnesota, examines seven different regimes of teaching and learning at a former Indian industrial boarding school to illustrate how Native lifeways of education have endured, integrated, and even surpassed schooling. His scholarship has appeared in the History of Education Quarterly, Western Historical Quarterly, and Oregon Historical Quarterly.