Danielle Moretti-Langholtz

Danielle Moretti-Langholtz received her undergraduate degree from the State University of New York and an MA and PhD in Anthropology from the University of Oklahoma. Danielle came to William & Mary from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and serves as the Thomasina E. Jordan Director of the American Indian Resource Center. Along with her curatorial responsibilities at the Muscarelle Museum of Art Danielle is a Teaching Professor in the Department of Anthropology, where she offers courses on Native American history and culture and museum studies at the graduate and undergraduate level. Her academic publications focus on Native people in the 18th century trans-Atlantic world, a reassessment of William & Mary’s Brafferton Indian School and Hopi ceremonialism. Danielle is committed to civically engaged research with Indigenous communities, along with mentoring students interested in anthropology and museum studies. To date she has curated several exhibitions with the assistance of graduate and undergraduate students; the work of Jaune Quick-to-see Smith (2007), In Reach of Memory Still: A Kiowa Legacy in Art (2011), and Glenn Close/A Life in Costume (2012). Building the Brafferton: The Founding, Funding and Legacy of America’s Indian School (2016), was co-curated with Buck Woodard, Ph.D. In 2020, she worked with students to create an award-winning virtual exhibit titled Rising: The American Indian Movement and the Third Space of Sovereignty and co-curated 1619 / 2019 with Melissa Parris and Steve Prince. Her 2022 exhibit, Shared Ideologies was re-exhibited by the Albany Museum of Art in Albany, Georgia in 2024. Moretti-Langholtz is actively working to build the museum’s collection of Native American art and material culture to support both future exhibitions and William & Mary’s Native Studies concentration.