Lillia McEnaney is a museum anthropologist, independent curator, and assistant professor of museum studies at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Her current curatorial projects include collaborations with the School for Advanced Research’s Indian Arts Research Center and the Navajo Nation Museum. She is co-editor, with Dr. Jennifer Nez Denetadle (Diné), of the forthcoming volume, “Nihinaaldlooshii doo nídínééshgóó k’ee’ąą yilzhish dooleeł” / “Our Livestock Will Never Diminish:” Breathing Life into the Photography of Milton Snow Across Diné Bikéyah (University of New Mexico Press, 2026).
Previously, Lillia was assistant curator at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology, director of the Hands-On Curatorial Program at the Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, and adjunct instructor in Lehigh University's Department of Art, Architecture, and Design/Semester in the American West. Recent exhibition projects have been in collaboration with the Museum of International Folk Art, the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico, Axle Contemporary, and others.
Lillia is the Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Council for Museum Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association. She holds an MA from New York University and a BA from Hamilton College.