The UC Davis history department would like to congratulate graduate student Brianna Tafolla Riviere, who will be awarded her Ph.D. in June 2025 for her appointment as Assistant Professor of History at Boston University, starting in Fall 2025! Her dissertation “Reel Red Power: Indigenous Activism, Visual Sovereignty, and the Film Industry” focuses on the effort of Native American activists to remake the representation of Indigenous Peoples and United States history in film.
