Dr. Janet Berry Hess, Professor in the Hutchins School of Liberal Arts, has been busy with several new projects coming out Spring 2021. Her latest book Digital Mapping and Indigenous America (Routledge 2021), employs anthropology, field research, and humanities methodologies as well as digital cartography, and foregrounding the voices of Indigenous scholars. This text examines digital projects currently underway, and includes alternative modes of "mapping" Native American, Alaskan Native, Indigenous Hawaiian and First Nations land.
Dr. Hess also wrote a chapter on Ghana in an upcoming edition of The Architectural Guide to Sub-Saharan Africa (DOM Publishers: forthcoming 2021).
Last but not least is an article titlted “Mapping Indigenous American Cultures and Living Histories: A Gathering Place,” forthcoming in the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information special edition, “Mapping Indigenous Knowledge in the Digital Age” (April 2021).