Bethany Palkovitz is an art historian whose work examines the intersections of Indigenous art, material culture, and traditional knowledge with colonial practices of scientific exploration, illustration, and collection/extraction in Turtle Island/North America. Palkovitz is a graduate student at the University of Washington Seattle, and their current research on Coast Salish mountain goat and wooly dog textiles is supported by the Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Native Art at the Burke Museum. While at UW, Palkovitz was a selected participant in the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies 2022 Summer Institute “Land, Water, and the Indigenous Archive: Art and Activism in the Mississippi River Network” at the Newberry Library. Prior to graduate school, Palkovitz held a curatorial assistant appointment at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.