Alina I. Scott (she/her) is a historian, writer, podcaster, and content creator.
As a History Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, her research explores eighteenth and nineteenth-century Native intellectual history and literature, digital humanities, critical race theory, archival studies, gender and sexuality, and religion. Her dissertation examines Indigenous petitioning campaigns and protests in the nineteenth century. She graduated with the highest distinction and honors from Southern Nazarene University (BA, 2017) and received an MA in history from the University of Texas in May 2019.
Her M.A. report “We Think We Have Been in Slavery Long Enough”: Control, Coalitions, and the Power of the Wampanoag Petition in Southern Massachusetts (1820-1845), explored trends in petitioning in predominantly Wampanoag towns in mid-nineteenth-century Massachusetts. Her M.A. report was supervised by Dr. Erika Bsumek (History) and Dr. Jennifer Graber (Religious Studies, NAIS).
She served as the assistant editor of Not Even Past (2019-20) and a managing editor at the Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal (2019-20). She is currently the host of the History Department's 15 Minute History Podcast.
Alina lives, works and podcasts from Austin, Texas, and is available to travel for speaking engagements.
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