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Ashton Pempanik Dunkley
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Ashton Pemapanik Dunkley (Jamaican and Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape) is an assistant professor of Black and Indigenous studies in the Department of Black Studies and American Studies Program at Georgetown University. An Afro-Indigenous feminist historian, her research draws on Black and Indigenous feminisms to challenge narratives of Indigenous extinction in the Mid-Atlantic. She examines how settler colonialism, racialization, and anti-Blackness have shaped public memory and recognition of Nanticoke and Lenape tribal nations since the nineteenth century. Raised in Lenapehoking, now Delaware and southern New Jersey, her work centers Indigenous knowledge, oral histories, ecologies, and kinship practices to address silences in colonial archives and historical narratives.