Dr. Tai Edwards Bio

Dr. Edwards’ scholarship focuses on colonization, Indigenous peoples, gender, and disease. Her book: Osage Women and Empire: Gender and Power was published by the University Press of Kansas in 2018. As Kansas Studies Institute director, she has collaborated on numerous projects including Quindaro Ruins preservation, collecting veterans’ oral histories, rematriation of a sacred grandfather rock to the Kaw Nation, and she is currently a co-PI on a National Endowment for the Humanities grant with K-State colleagues to annotate and contextualize the treaties that dispossessed the Kaw Nation of their lands that now make up the state of Kansas.