The mission of the Ivan Doig Center is to foster the integrated study of the North American West. With its emphasis on developing connections throughout the humanities, arts, social sciences, and natural sciences, the Center helps position MSU as an important site for creative scholarship across interdisciplinary fields that are dedicated to advancing knowledge about the lands and peoples of the North American West.

 

Doig Country: Imagining Montana and the West” (photo courtesy Tyler Ready).Field trip during 2017 symposium on Doig Country: Imagining Montana and the West (photo courtesy Tyler Ready) 

 

Directors

Founders of the Ivan Doig Center: Dr. Robert Rydell, Director Dr. Mary Murphy, alongside former Director Dr. Susan Kollin