Alyssa Mt. Pleasant is a scholar whose research focuses on Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) history during the Revolutionary War era. She holds a PhD in History from Cornell University and has been a faculty member in History, American Studies, and interdisciplinary Ethnic Studies departments at Yale University and the University at Buffalo (SUNY). Dr. Mt. Pleasant served as founding Program Director of the Native American Scholars Initiative at the American Philosophical Society, connecting campus- and community-based researchers with archival collections.

Dr. Mt. Pleasant established ATW Research + Consulting to focus on projects at the intersection of History and Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) that include public-facing scholarship, archival research initiatives connecting Indigenous researchers with collections, and workshops for educators that draw on the sources, methods, and scholarship of NAIS.