Maya is an anthropologist (PhD Columbia University, 2014) who is deeply engaged in ethnographic, legal, and archival theory and methodology. She currently is completing a book manuscript that examines the war on terror, sexual difference, secularism, and state power in the contemporary Middle East from the vantage point of Lebanon. Maya is also at the beginning stages of a book project that focuses on settler colonialism, the multiple and simultaneous temporalities of history and the “present,” and the affects of both archives and archival research. She engages with these questions via the collected and auto-ethnographic story of her great grandmother, who was an Ojibwa woman living in the early twentieth century Midwestern United states.