Brittany D. Hunt

• Historical and contemporary schooling practices rooted in anti-Indigeneity
• Emancipatory education that provide paths to self-determination for BIPOC
• Decolonizing education and centering Indigenous stories

• Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction: Urban Education. University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  Dissertation Title: “I’m gonna tell you that we’re not a myth: Native students’ and non-Native teachers’ perspectives on anti-Indigenous curriculum and classrooms"
• MSW, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• BA in Psychology, Duke University
  

• Assistant Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Dec 2022 - present
• Owner/Founder, Indigenous Ed, LLC, March 2019 - present
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Duke University, Jan 2022 – Dec 2022
  
• Visiting Professor, Davidson College, Dept of Educational Studies, Jan 2021 – May 2021
  
• University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Research Assistant, May 2020 – May 2021

• August 2020 - present Featured in Levine Museum for the New South, Charlotte, NC
• 2021 Selected for the artEquity 2021 Cohort of the BIPOC Leadership Circle
• April 2019 Featured in UNC-Pembroke’s Museum of the Southeast American Indian in their “Lumbee: A People and a Place” Exhibit, Pembroke, NC.
• September 2018 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
  
• May 2014 Order of the Old Well; UNC-Chapel Hill

Refereed Journal Articles

Hunt, B., Lim, J.H., & Williams, J. (2022). Unsung heroes on campus: Minority veterans’ transition experiences by race.  The Journal of Higher Education. doi: 10.1080/00221546.2022.2031705

Hunt, B. & Locklear, M. (2022). “You’re not going to round me to zero, you’re going to round me to at least one, I will at least be one”: Lumbee erasure, identity, and stories of a Lumbee professor and a Lumbee student. Journal of American Indian Education, 61 (1), 28-49.

Hunt, B. (2022). Sinister schooling: Modern-day implications of Hampton Model Industrial Normal Schools and American Indian boarding schools. Zanj: The Journal of Critical Global South Studies, 3(1), 70-84.

Hunt, B. (2021). “A little Indian there”: Henry Louis Gates, DNA, and the immutability of Lumbee identity. Native South, 14 (1).

Hunt, B. (2021). Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone: Missing & murdered Indigenous women and girls in North Carolina. Invited commentary for the North Carolina Medical Journal (NCMJ).

Hunt, B. & Richardson, S. (2021). Indigenizing social work: Andragogical Strategies for incorporating Native knowledge in curricula. Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work, 25(1), 221-230.

Martin, F., Hunt, B, Wang, C. & Brooks, E. (2020). Middle school student perception of technology use and digital citizenship practices. Computers in the Schools, 37(3), 196-217. 

Hunt, B., Locklear, L., Pacheco, C., & Bullard, C. (2020). “Do you live in a teepee? Do you have running water?”: The harrowing experiences of American Indians in North Carolina’s urban K-12 schools. Urban Review.

Hunt, B. & Oyarzun, B. (2020). Online learning perspectives of Native American students. Journal for Educational Technology Systems, 48(3).  https://doi.org/10.1177/0047239519867921

Dika, S.L., Hunt, B., Pando, M.A., Tempest, B.Q., and Allen, M.E. (2019). “Self-efficacy of engineering transfer students: Links to faculty interaction and other forms of capital” International Journal on Engineering, Science and Technology, 1(1), 1-9.

Acosta, J, Williams, J., and Hunt, B. (2019). Dual language program models and English language learners: An analysis of the literacy results from a 50/50 and a 90/10 model in two California schools. Macrothink Institute. 5(2). DOI:10.5296/jei.v5i2.14747

Submitted Manuscripts

Hunt, B. & Lim, J.H. Searching for safe space: Student veterans’ uneven pathways to STEM careers by race. Journal for Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering. (Revise & Resubmit)

Hunt, B. & Lim, J.H. To beat or not to beat?: Lumbee mothers’ perceptions of corporal punishment. Special Issue of the Journal of American Indian Education and The Rural Educator.

Manuscripts in Preparation

Hunt, B., Wilkins, D., Wilkins, S., & Emanuel, R. Environmental professionals lack of knowledge of Indigenous peoples.

Hunt, B., Emanuel, R., Lowery, D., & Locklear, C. Mining the mothers: An exploration of environmental degradation in the American south and missing and murdered Indigenous women.

Book Chapters

Hunt, B. & Bowen, K. (2022). Colonization continued. The disproportionate punishment of American Indian students in K-12 Schools.  In Williams, J., Davis, A., & Lewis C. (Eds.), Reimagining school discipline for the 21st century student: Engaging students, practitioners, and community members. Information-Age Publishing.

Hunt, B. (2020). Like my mother and grandmother taught me: Untamable Indigenous womanhoo in white academic spaces. In Richardson, S. & Lewis, C. (Eds.), Conquering academia: Transparent experiences of diverse doctoral students. Information-Age Publishing.

Submitted Book Chapters

Peters, B., Hunt, B., Faircloth, M., & McMillan, A. HNAFS: Women reclaiming space for Native students in higher education. Diversity of Opportunity and Privileged Access: Institutional Types Across American Higher Education.

Hunt, B. We did not move to cities to die: American Indian resilience during the Relocation era.

Book Reviews

Hunt, B. (2020). Malinda Maynor Lowery. The Lumbee Indians: An American struggle. American Indian Quarterly 44(1), 118-120.

Conference Proceedings

Lim, J., Findlater, N., Interiano, C., Tkacik, P., Dahlberg, J., Faw, L., Hunt, B. & Nguyen, N. (2018). “Our little world”: (Un)envisioning the social and ethical implications of engineering. Frontiers in Education.

Policy/Research Briefs

Hunt, B. (2018). A necessary education: Eradicating historical inaccuracies and stereotypes of America Indians in public education curriculum. UNCC Urban Education Collaborative Research Report. Charlotte, NC: University of North Carolina at Charlotte, College of Education, Urban Education Collaborative.

Hunt, B. (2018). Indigenous womanhood in academia: An examination of American Indian female matriculation and graduation rates. UNCC Urban Education Collaborative Research Report. Charlotte, NC: University of North Carolina at Charlotte, College of Education, Urban Education Collaborative.

Hunt, B. (2018). “Dats da headnis’ mess I’m ever seen:” Lumbee dialect and the overplacement of Lumbee youth in speech and language programs. UNCC Urban Education Collaborative Research Report. Charlotte, NC: University of North Carolina at Charlotte, College of Education, Urban Education Collaborative.

Hunt, B. (2018). Non-standard English use in the classroom: An examination of Indigenous English. UNCC Urban Education Collaborative Research Report. Charlotte, NC: University of North Carolina at Charlotte, College of Education, Urban Education Collaborative.

Hunt, B. (2018). American Indian mascots in North Carolina schools and their impact on school-aged youth. UNCC Urban Education Collaborative Research Report. Charlotte, NC: University of North Carolina at Charlotte, College of Education, Urban Education Collaborative.

Hunt, B. (2018). Underserved, overrepresented and invisibilized: Disproportionate punishment of American Indian students in North Carolina. UNCC Urban Education Collaborative Research Report. Charlotte, NC: University of North Carolina at Charlotte, College of Education, Urban Education Collaborative.

Invited Articles for Organizations’ Websites

Hunt, B. (2020). Not like the Indians on TV. Women AdvaNCe.  https://www.womenadvancenc.org/2020/11/16/not-like-the-indians-on-tv/

Hunt, B. (2020). Being the only Native in the room. Women AdvaNCe. https://www.womenadvancenc.org/2020/11/06/being-the-only-native-in-the-room/

Funded Grants

Hunt, B. (2021, May). Chancellor’s diversity grant.  UNC Charlotte.

Hunt, B. (2020, January). Graduate research and travel award.  Native Nations Institute Grant.

Davis, A., Jones-Fosu, S, & Hunt, B.  Niner for a day. Walmart Foundation Grant.

Unfunded Grants

Hunt, B., Lewis, C., and Richardson, S.  (2019, April). Beyond the margin(alized): Supporting K-12 American Indian students in urban schools.  Dell Foundation Grant. 

Hunt, B., Lewis, C., and Richardson, S.  Beyond the Colonized Classroom: Centering American Indian Student Stories. (2019, June).  Kenneth and Mamie Clark Fund Grant.

• Cohost – Red Justice Project – a podcast that centers the stories of missing and murdered Indigenous people in the United States and Canada. (2020 – present). Featured by Apple Podcasts in November 2022 and currently have more than 100,000 downloads.
• Social Media Influencer for the North Carolina Department of Transportation. (NCDOT). Created content for social media campaigns on seat belt use and impaired driving.
• Featured in “NC podcast seeks justice for Indigenous women and girls.” In WRAL. (2022). By Amanda Lamb. https://www.wral.com/nc-podcast-seeks-justice-for-indigenous-women-and-girls/20638650/
• Featured in “Local podcast 'The Red Justice Project' illuminates the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women.” In INDY Week. (2022). By Sasha Schroeder. https://indyweek.com/topics/red-justice-project/
• Featured in “Hosts of ‘Red Justice Project’ seek to raise the voices of slain, missing Indigenous people. In the Robesonian. (2021). By Tomeka Sinclair. https://www.robesonian.com/ features/141752/hosts-of-red-justice-project-seek-to-raise-the-voices-of-slain-missing-indigenous-people
• Featured in “There’s a sickness in Robeson:” Families of slain Native Americans in NC want justice. (2021). By Reuben Jones. https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/triangle-sandhills/news/2021/03/09/murdered-native-american-families-search-for-justice
  
• Featured in “UNCC recognizes Indigenous Peoples’ Day, students say there’s more to do.  In Spectrum News. (2020). By Courtney Davis. https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/news/2020/10/13/unc-charlotte-recognizes-indigenous-peoples--day
• Featured in “What makes someone Native American? One tribe’s long struggle for recognition.” In The Washington Post. (2018). By Lisa Rab. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style/wp/2018/08/20/feature/what-makes-someone-native-american-one-tribes-long-struggle-for-full-recognition/