Articles, Chapters, and Digital Projects

Journal Articles

“Across Spaces and Divisions: A Conversation on the Uses of Public Humanities.” Public Humanities 1 (2025): e111: 1-13, co-authored with Elizabeth Rule, Jennifer Guiliano, and Roopika Risam.

“Pausing and Contributing towards Indigenous Futures: A Pedagogical Reflection on College History Classrooms.” Curriculum Inquiry (2024).

“An Exploratory Analysis of Elementary and Secondary Education Funding Levels for American Indians and Alaska Natives from 1980 to 2017.” Journal of Education Finance 48, no. 2 (2022), co-authored with Jeffrey D. Burnette.

“‘American Indian’ as a Racial Category in Public Health: Implications for Communities and Practice,”American Journal of Public Health 111, no. 11 (2021): 1969-1975, co-authored with Danielle R. Gartner and Rachel E. Wilbur.

“Alternative Strategies for Family History Projects: Rethinking Practice in Light of Indigenous Perspectives”, The History Teacher 54, no. 3 (2021):473-508,  co-authored with Leilani Sabzalian and Tommy Ender.

“Reconceiving Schooling: Centering Indigenous Experimentation in Indian Education History,” History of Education Quarterly 60, no. 4 (2020): 487–519, co-authored with Matthew Villeneuve. 

“Beyond Pocahontas: Learning from Indigenous Women Changemakers,” Social Studies and the Young Learner 31, no. 3 (2019): 7–13, co-authored as the Turtle Island Social Studies Collective.

“We Are Here: Powwow and Higher Education in North Carolina.” Southern Cultures 24, no. 4 (2018).

Book Chapters

Elizabeth Rule, Meredith McCoy, Megan Red Shirt-Shaw, Jennifer Guiliano, and Roopika Risam. “Introduction” and “Report from the Landback Universities Project.” In Landback Universities. University of Minnesota Press. Forthcoming.

Sabzalian, Leilani, Meredith L. McCoy, and Helen Thomas. “Foundations for Teaching Indigenous Studies in K-12 Schools.” In High School Ethnic Studies: A Resource Book. Barnes and Noble Press, 2025.

McCoy, Meredith L. “Expecting Indigenous Presence: Indigenous Pasts, Presents, and Futures in K-12 Social Studies.” In Shifting the Lens in History Education: Centering Racial and Ethnic Knowledge in the Classroom. Cambridge: Harvard Education Press, 2025.

“Campus Coalitions Toward Indigenous Well-Being: Anti-Racist Community-Engaged Reflections on Institutional Change.” In Anti-Racist Community Engagement: Principles and Practices, edited by Christina Santana, Roopika Risam, Aldo Garcia-Guevara, Joseph Krupczynski, Cynthia Lynch, John Reiff, Cindy Vincent, and Elaine Ward. Boston, Massachusetts: Campus Compact, 2023. Co-authored with Zia NoiseCat, Paul Dressen, and Sinda Nichols.

“Indian Country: An Introduction to Financial and Bureaucratic Considerations.” In Funding P-12 Schools in the 50 States and Indian Country, edited by David C. Thompson, R. C. Wood, S. Neuenswander, J. M. Heim, and R. D. Watson, 2019, co-authored with RedCorn, Alex, Meredith L. McCoy, and Hollie J. Mackey.

“Indigenous Futurities and the Responsibilities of Social Studies.” In Dreaming Out Loud: Critical Race Theory and Social Studies Futures, edited by Amanda E. Vickery and Noreen Naseem Rodríguez. New York: Teachers College Press, co-authored as the Turtle Island Social Studies Collective, 2022.

“Insurgence Must Be Red: Connecting Indigenous Studies and Social Studies Education for Anticolonial Praxis.” In Insurgent Social Studies: Scholar-Educators Disrupting Erasure & Marginality, edited by Sarah B. Shear, Natasha Hakimali Merchant, and Wayne Au. Myers Education Press, co-authored as the Turtle Island Social Studies Collective, 2022.

“Preparing Preservice Educators to Teach American Indian Boarding School Histories.” In (Re)Imagining Elementary Social Studies: A Controversial Issues Reader, edited by Sarah B. Shear, Christina M. Tschida, Elizabeth Bellows, Lisa Brown Buchanan, and Elizabeth E. Saylor, 255–79, 2018.

Public Scholarship

“Indigenous Chicago Curriculum.” Newberry Library, 2024, co-developed with Rose Miron, Teagan Dreyer, Joshua Friedlein, Dylan Nelson, Anthony Stamilio, Kabl Wilkerson, and the Indigenous Chicago Curriculum Advisory Team (Beatriz Reyes, Chantay Moore, Clovia Malatare, Darlene St Clair, Jennifer Michals, Josee Starr, Raphael Wahwassuck, Blake Norton, and Sunshine Bear).

“Trigger Points: Current State of Research on History, Impacts, and Healing Related to the United States’ Indian Industrial/Boarding School Policy.” Boulder: Native American Rights Fund, 2019, co-authored with Danielle R. Gartner and Rachel E. Wilbur, with contributions from Brett Lee Shelton and Michael Johnson.

“Teaching Hard History Podcast, Season 2.” Teaching Hard History: American Slavery. Teaching Tolerance, Southern Poverty Law Center, 2019, co-hosted with Hasan K. Jeffries.

Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery — Grades K-5. Washington, D.C.: Teaching Tolerance, 2019, co-authored with Bethany Jay, Cynthia Lynn Lyerly, Margaret Newell, Christina Snyder, Sarah B. Shear, and Ebony E. Thomas.

Jay, Bethany, Cynthia Lynn Lyerly, Hasan Jeffries, Renee Gokey, Meredith L. McCoy, Christina Snyder, and Sarah B. Shear. Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery — Grades 6-12. Washington, D.C.: Teaching Tolerance, 2019, co-authored with Bethany Jay, Cynthia Lynn Lyerly, Hasan Jeffries, Renee Gokey, Christina Snyder, and Sarah B. Shear.

Editorials, testimonies, and other digital publications

“While Teaching for Native American Heritage Month, Remember the Troubling Role of Schools in Indigenous History.” TIME: Made by History. November 25, 2024.

“We Must Support the Teachers Who Will Be in Charge of Expanding Native History Lessons.” The Hechinger Report. November 24, 2022, Online edition.

“Restoring Indigenous Systems of Relationality.” Center for Humans and Nature, October 7, 2020, co-authored Emma Elliott-Groves, Leilani Sabzalian, and Megan Bang.

“This isn’t the first time the United States has split up families,” Houston Chronicle (online edition), July 8, 2018, co-authored with Sarah B. Shear.

“Building Safe Spaces: Celebrating Teachers Who Support Native Youth,” Bit & Grain; republished in EdNC, 2017, co-authored with Leslie Locklear.

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