Adriana Greci Green to Serve as Glynn Family Professor at W&L The former curator of Indigenous Arts of the Americas at the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia will serve a teaching and curatorial residency during Winter Term 2026.

By Brian Laubscher
January 9, 2026

Adriana Greci Green, renowned scholar and curator of Native American art, has been selected to serve as the John and Barbara Glynn Family Professor at Washington and Lee University.

Greci Green will serve her 12-week residency during the 2026 Winter Term, teaching Indigenous Arts of the North American Plains (ARTH 295E). The residency will focus on deepening student engagement with the W&L Art Museum & Galleries’ Stanley A. Kamen Collection of Western Art, which will inspire research and curatorial projects with students. Additionally, as part of her professorship, Greci Green will also present a public lecture focusing on Native regalia represented in Western American art on March 31 in Northen Auditorium.

Greci Green’s work seeks to reconnect artworks in museum collections with their communities of origin and to uncover the Indigenous histories and experiences these artworks reflect. With a focus on both historic and contemporary Native American/First Nations arts, her work explores the material expressions of sovereignty and treaties and the contexts in which material culture, art, dress and cultural performance are produced and circulated.

“This residency allows us to more fully contextualize the Stanley A. Kamen Collection while encouraging critical thinking and the application of museum methodologies among our students,” said Isra El-beshir, director of the Art Museum and Galleries. “Dr. Greci Green’s career in museums offers our students an incredible opportunity to consider the power of interpretation and storytelling. I am grateful to the Provost’s Office for supporting this meaningful collaboration between the Art Museum and the Art and Art History Department.”

Greci Green is currently a research associate in the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. From 2016 to 2025, she was the curator of Indigenous Arts of the Americas at The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia. Previously, she served as the lead curator for “Native Artists of North America,” the permanent reinstallation of Native American art at the Newark Museum of Art. Earlier appointments included serving as a curator of special exhibitions and Native American digitization projects at the Missouri History Museum; as assistant professor for the Center for Native American Studies at Northern Michigan University; and as executive director of the Nokomis Cultural Heritage Center in Okemos, Michigan.

Greci Green holds a Bachelor of Arts in archeology as well as a Master of Arts and Ph.D. in anthropology, all from Rutgers University.

The John and Barbara Glynn Family Professorship was established in 2001 to fund annually a distinguished visiting professor who is an accomplished scholar and teacher, preferably one who brings new expertise to cover underrepresented areas of importance within the curriculum. The visitor will be in residence for an extended period, at least two weeks to a full six- or 12-week term. The Professorship will be directed by the provost. The endowment is a gift of John W. Glynn Jr. and Barbara A. Glynn in honor of their daughter, Alexandra Glynn Rowe ’92, and other family.

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