Megan Bang

Megan Bang is the James E. Johnson Professor of Learning Sciences at Northwestern University and director of its Center for Native American and Indigenous Research. Of Ojibwe and Italian descent, she studies culture, learning, development, and Indigenous approaches to science and STEM education. She earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Williams College and a PhD in learning sciences from Northwestern University.

Bang is the co-author, with Douglas L. Medin, of Who’s Asking?: Native Science, Western Science, and Science Education (MIT Press, 2014). Her other published work includes Across Lands and Waters, co-authored with Bryan Brayboy, Ananda Marin, and Linda Tuhiwai Smith.