Adrea Lawrence, Ph.D. is Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Montana. 

I am an education historian. Most of my colleagues know me as someone who has studied American Indian histories and their corresponding education policy histories.  After studying this field for a number of years, and having tinkered with a variety of different digital and analog platforms, I am increasingly interested in how people keep knowledge about the past and what that means forlearning formally and informally. With my interest in traces of learnings, I’m very curious about how researchers approach their studies, and in how people have discerned meaning and figured out different ways to live in their worlds. There are many ways of doing so.