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• 2023 – Fellow, Royal Historical Society 
• 2018 - National Teaching Fellow 
• 2014 - Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• 1994 - PhD, University of Nottingham
• 1990 - Masters, University of Nottingham

Professor Porter co-founded the internationally collaborative , dedicated to interdisciplinary Indigenous environmental themes in relation to global challenges. She has produced award-winning new knowledge within four monographs and three other books, advancing thinking on Indigenous leadership, international diplomacy, environmentalism, and trauma; pioneered as an intercultural engagement tool, co-produced field-leading Indigenous artist exhibitions (American Museum, Bath; NONAM, Zurich), films, international conferences, and with King鈥檚 Digital lab, the first .

She is PL for two AHRC standard research grant projects, 鈥楬istoric Houses Global Crossroads鈥� (2024-27), exploring how historic houses and their environs can thrive in the future as inclusive global spaces adaptive to climate change; and 鈥樷�� (2021-24), an international collaboration revealing globally significant cultures of diplomacy between the British Crown, the Haudenosaunee and their neighbours in North America. She is also PI Host 2024-25 for and Canada Research Chair Damien Lee, developing plans to research 鈥楢 First Indigenous History of Adoption鈥�. Her research was nominated for the 2024 Canadian Pierre Savard Award and previously attracted the 鈥榃riter of the Year Award鈥�, Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers, and 鈥極utstanding Academic Title Award鈥�, American Library Association.

Professor Porter was Co-Investigator of the Leverhulme Doctoral Centre for Water Cultures and PI Host for British Academy Global Professor Gregory Smithers (2021-24). Her work has benefitted from a Leverhulme Major Fellowship & Fellowship, AHRC Fellowship, British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, Fulbright All-Disciplines Visiting Scholar Award (Dartmouth, NH), British Association of Canadian Studies Award, Canadian Government Research Award. She has held Visiting Professorships at the University of Paris, Diderot and The Clinton Institute, Dublin.

Professor Porter serves on the UKRI Interdisciplinary Assessment College (Rover, 2023-25), interviews for Fulbright US-UK, and reviews for AHRC, NERC, RCUK Newton Fund and Academy of Finland. She was a REF2021 UoA28 (History) full panel member and Interdisciplinary Panel Member.

Before joining Birmingham, Professor Porter was Professor of Indigenous and Environmental History, University of Hull; Associate Dean, College of Arts & Humanities, Swansea University; and Senior Lecturer in American History, Anglia Ruskin, Cambridge.

She engages in knowledge exchange, impact and consultancy work across sectors, working with heritage sites to enhance interpretation and contextualization of Indigenous materials, with UK Exam Boards updating provision linked to the Indigenous world, and with governmental bodies globally advising on Intangible Cultural Heritage, Intellectual property and Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Find out more at:

Professor Porter was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in 2018 for her work advancing challenge-led PG teaching and the employability needs of students from diverse educational backgrounds. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Professor Porter has a strong track record helping ECR and PGR colleagues advance their careers. She has supported a significant number to achieve positions in U.K. and U.S. Universities. She has also supported students and ECRs to attract fellowships, travel awards and other funding from the AHRC, Fulbright US-UK, government bodies and North American and European universities.
She welcomes PGR enquiries linked to:
Global Indigenous Environmental History, Culture and Literature
Indigenous Treaties and IP Law,
Global Environmental and Resource Politics
the American Presidency
Heritage, Museums and Cultural Studies,
Modernity and War
US and Canadian Environmental Studies
Digital Humanities.

Current PhD Supervisions:
Montgomery Simus, "Water Cultures in Conflict at Pebble Mine, Bristol Bay, Alaska"".

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Professor Porter is an interdisciplinary researcher of Indigenous historical themes in relation to treaties, the environment, Intangible Cultural Heritage, resource politics, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence & Data Ethics. She is PI of the , which brings together educators, Indigenous groups, museums, creative artists, NGOs and policymakers to make treaties and environmental concerns central to education, policy, and public understanding.聽

Professor Porter has a developed of globally-disseminated outputs, including four monographs published by major US presses, and (Pierre Savard Award 2024 Nominee, Bloomsbury, 2021). This first book-length analysis of Canada鈥檚 premier poet of combat-induced trauma revealed a figure whose indigenous identity was deeply significant within the Bloomsbury literary milieu. It argues that Prewett exemplified a 鈥榮oft鈥� primitivism at the heart of modernity as an historical and social force.

Professor Porter鈥檚 forthcoming book is Canada's Green Challenge (contracted, McGill, 2025). It takes the reader beyond the solution-sets advanced by both left and right, confronting the reality of Canada as a mining economy, one of the world鈥檚 largest exporters of minerals and metals, selling over sixty different mineral commodities to over one hundred countries. The book argues it is unreasonable to look to Canada鈥檚 Indigenous peoples to solve the climate crisis, despite their vital, ongoing efforts to protect Canadian land. However, Indigenous respect for balance will be central to a Canadian sustainable future.聽

Professor Porter is Project Lead for the 3-year AHRC Standard Research Grant, 鈥楬istoric Houses, Global Crossroads: Revisioning Two Northern Ireland Historic Houses and Estates鈥� (2024-27, 1.49M), exploring how historic sites can beneficially position themselves in a new way, as global crossroads, entangled intersections of diplomatic, material and intercultural exchange where conceptualisation of the international took place. She is also Project Lead for the 3-year AHRC Standard Research Grant 鈥� (2021-24, 931k).

Alongside Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes), California State University and Dr Clint Carroll (Cherokee), University of Colorado, Professor Porter is Lead Editor of the Cambridge University Press book series, , which investigates how environmental issues and processes relate to Indigenous socio-economic, cultural and political dynamics.聽

Professor Porter has delivered keynotes and invited lectures across Europe and North America (Universities of Copenhagen, Geneva, Oxford, Cambridge, Westpoint, Yale, UCD, Harvard Law School and Virginia Commonwealth).

Sample of recorded events

鈥�,鈥� opening keynote of the 2023 AHRC International Conference, University of Oxford 18 September 2023.

鈥�,鈥� Annual Conference of Irish Association for American Studies, Dublin City University, 29 April 2022.

鈥�,鈥� Institute for Global Prosperity, Director鈥檚 Seminar, UCL, 10 March 2022.

1.鈥樷��: Fully interactive, layered, immersive made using geo-rectified British Library historic maps, revealing a pre-Revolutionary Indigenous world not shown in post-1776 American mapping, co-produced with King鈥檚 Digital, King鈥檚 College London, final version available late 2024.

1. , 2023.
2. Public-facing , at beta stage, launch Fall, 2024.

Research Impact

1. Consulting on .
2. 2023 International Symposium, Queens University, Ontario. .
3. 2022 Museum Exhibition, American Museum & Gardens, Bath: 19 March -3 July 2022 鈥溾�� featuring Material Kwe by AHRC Co-I Celeste Pedri-Spade (Anishinaabe).
4. 2022 International Workshop Plenary 鈥�, Queens University, Ontario.
5. 2022 Artist鈥檚 Residencies: ; NONAM, Zurich, Celeste Pedri-Spade (Anishinaabe).

• Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
• Advisory Board Member, History Today
• 2024- Awarding Panel Member, UKRI Catalyst Awards
• 2023-2025, UKRI Interdisciplinary Assessment College Member, Rover (review panel tensioning) and Panel Chair
• 2024-2027, AHRC Review Panel Member