On March 21, historian Susan Burch, a professor of American studies at Middlebury College, will give a lecture connected to her most recent book, Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions (University of North Carolina Press, 2021). A co-founder of the Disability History Association, Burch’s research and teaching interests focus on the overlaps of deaf, disability, race, Indigeneity, and gender and sexuality in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. history. Committed, Burch’s award-winning book, centers on the lived experiences of Indigenous people at the Canton Asylum, a federal psychiatric facility in South Dakota and one of many places of imposed removal and confinement of Native Americans. Drawing on oral histories, correspondence, material objects, and archival sources, Burch tells the story of the people institutionalized and those who experienced the impact of this history. Burch’s lecture is presented by Boston College’s Park Street Corporation Speaker Series and will take place in Gasson 100 beginning at 7 p.m.