Dr. David Lowry is Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Geography-Anthropology program at the Muskie School. He is an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina and grew up in the Lumbee community in Robeson County, North Carolina. In 2022-23, David was Visiting Senior Fellow in the School of Social Policy at Brandeis University and prior to that in 2021-22, he was Distinguished Fellow in Native American Studies at MIT.
Dr. Lowry was invited to serve as a consultant to the City of Cambridge (MA) as they responded to a vote that approved a participatory budgeting project to rename streets in Cambridge using Massachusett language. As a consultant, Dr. Lowry provided monthly lectures to the Cambridge Historical Commission on historical context and perspective as an American Indian/Native American person/scholar. In November 2023, the City of Cambridge announced that they would create signs around Cambridge and in November 2024, the City of Cambridge held an official unveiling of the first of these signs. Read more here and here.