03/31/2026
Join ECNAO tomorrow for our April Meeting to hear from David Shane Lowry!
David Shane Lowry is an anthropologist and enrolled citizen of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. He grew up in the Lumbee community in Robeson County, North Carolina after moving from St. Louis, Missouri. He is married to Nichol Brewer-Lowry, a former Park Scholar at NC State.
In 2022-2023, he was Visiting Senior Fellow in the School of Social Policy at Brandeis University.
In 2021-22, he was Distinguished Fellow in Native American Studies at MIT. He taught and mentored first and second year medical students at Chicago Medical School. He also taught and mentored students at Biola University (Los Angeles).
David is a graduate of MIT (SB) and UNC-Chapel Hill (MA and PhD). His graduate work (in the Lumbee community) was funded by the National Science Foundation
Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRF). His recent book, Lumbee Pipelines: American Indian movement in the residue of settler colonialism, is a product of that work.
At University of Southern Maine (USM), David is Assistant Professor of Anthropology. At USM, he is leading IRL (Indigenous Relationships Lab) as a place for
and commitment to justice and re-mattering of American Indian and other Indigenous peoples from Maine, to Massachusetts, to North Carolina, to Hawaii.
David’s podcast, “Returning the Land”, is available on Apple, Spotify, and other podcast platforms
