Organizers and Partners
SURVIVING THE LONG WARS is organized by Aaron Hughes, Ronak K. Kapadia, Therese Quinn, Joseph Lefthand, Amber Zora, and Meranda Roberts with support from the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) Institute for the Humanities Innovation Grant, UIC Award for Creative Activity, Chicago Cultural Center, Hyde Park Art Center, Newberry Library, DEMIL Art Fund, and the National Endowment for the Humanities Dialogues on the Experiences of War grant. NEH Veteran Fellows include Gina Herrera, Monty Little, Gerald Sheffield, Anthony Torres, Eric Perez, and Natasha Erskine.
Special thanks to the Disability Cultural Center, the Native American Support Program, and the Women’s Leadership and Resource Center at UIC.
*Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities
See additional supporters at the bottom of this page.
Organizing Team
Aaron Hughes
[US Army veteran]
Ronak K. Kapadia
Therese Quinn
Joseph Lefthand (Cheyenne-Arapaho, Taos, and Zuni tribes)
[US Marine Corps veteran]
Meranda Roberts (Yerington Paiute)
Amber Zora
[US Army veteran]
Kevin Basl
[US Army veteran]
Rachel Dukes
Zaynab Hilal
Becky Nasadowski
Yiran Zhang
[Singapore military veteran]
Inmagela Rivas Abreu, Spanish Translation
Liliana Macias, Education Guide
Tracy Tojo, Label Writing
Georgina Valverde, Spanish Translation
NEH Veteran Fellows
Featured Scholars & Experts
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Nick Estes (Lower Brule Sioux)
Kelly Hayes (Menominee)
Tom Jones (Ho-Chunk)
Laleh Khalili
Tiffany King
Kyle T. Mays (Saginaw Chippewa)
Chris Pappan (Kaw, Osage, and Cheyenne River Sioux)
Yvette Pino
Michael Rakowitz
Meranda Roberts (Yerington Paiute)
Rijin Sahakian
Harsha Walia
Jason Wesaw (Potawatomi)
Artists & Performers
Bassim Al-Shaker
Hipólito Arriaga
[US Marine Corps veteran]
Andrea Assaf
Dorothy Burge
Miridith Campbell (Kiowa)
[US Marine Corps veteran]
June Carpenter (Osage/Shawnee)
Brittney Chantele
[US Army veteran]
Mahwish Chishty
Elexa Dawson (Citizen Potawatomi Nation)
Jose deVera
[US Marine Corps veteran]
Melissa Doud (Ojibwe)
[US Army veteran]
Sabba Elahi
Rodney Ewing
[US Army veteran]
Ali Eyal
Darrell Wayne Fair
[US Marine Corps veteran]
Eddie Falcón [US Air Force veteran]
Sarah Farahat
Brian Frejo (Pawnee Nation/Seminole Nation of Oklahoma)
Chitra Ganesh
Mariam Ghani
Frederick Gokliz (San Carlos Apache)
[US Army veteran]
GOODW.Y.N.
[US Army veteran]
Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds (Cheyenne and Arapaho Nation)
Gina Herrera (Costa Rican and Tesuque Pueblo)
[US Army veteran]
Tom Jones (Ho-Chunk)
Rajkamal Kahlon
Ruth Kaneko (Kanaka Wahine)
[US Army veteran]
Gilbert Kills Pretty Enemy III (Standing Rock Sioux)
Erika R. Land
[US Army veteran]
Terran Last Gun (Piikani)
Joseph Lefthand (Cheyenne-Arapaho, Taos, and Zuni tribes)
[US Marine Corps veteran]
Monty Little (Diné)
[US Marine Corps veteran]
Hanaa Malallah
Dunya Mikhail
Hector René Membreño-Canales
[US Army veteran]
James Pakootas (Confederate Tribes of Colville)
Chris Pappan (Kaw/Osage, Lakota)
Eric Perez
[US Marine Corps veteran]
Yvette Pino
[US Army veteran]
Michael Rakowitz
Gregory Rick [US Army veteran]
Joseph Running Crane (Blackfeet)
Sada
Gerald Sheffield
[US Army veteran]
Carlos Sirah
[US Army veteran]
Hussein Smko
Starla Thompson (Potawatomi)
Angela Waller [US Army veteran]
Dwayne Wilcox (Oglala Lakota)
[US Air Force veteran]
Yiran Zhang
[Singapore military veteran]
Contributing UIC Graduate Students
Inmagela Rivas Abreu, Billy Borstell, Spencer Harrison, Zaynab Hilal, Andrew Kracinski, Liliana Macias, Alexa Marines, Tracy Tojo, and Hun Xue