Joseph Mizhakiiyaasige Zordan is a doctoral candidate in the History of Art and Architecture Department at Harvard University. His work examines the affectual and political afterlives of colonial violence within Indigenous and American architecture, decorative arts, and painting. In particular, Zordan is interested in works related to diplomacy, home-making, and mourning.

He has written for the American Folk Art Museum, British Art Studies Journal, Brooklyn Rail, October, Yale School of Art, among others. His research has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Center for the Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, and Oak Spring Garden Foundation. Currently, Zordan is the 2023-2024 Douglass Foundation Fellow in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.