Dr. Eglutė Trinkauskaitė holds a PhD in Religion from Syracuse University. Trinkauskaitė is full-time faculty in the department of Humanistic Studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her field of teaching and research is the History of Religions, with a focus on Native American and other Indigenous religious traditions, ecology, and the materiality of religion. Her current research investigates the continued vitality of Indigenous religions and their imprint on Lithuania and its diaspora. Dr. Trinkauskaitė has taught at Syracuse University, Hamilton College, and Nazareth College of Rochester, New York. She is an active member of the American Academy of Religion and the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies.