About Our Faculty
NAIS Department

Areas of expertise:

• Latin American Indigenous studies
• Latinx and Indigenous intersectionality;
• Latin American and Indigenous visual cultures
• Film and sound studies

Education:

• Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2022
• M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 2014
• MTS, Harvard Divinity School, 2011
• B.A., Brown University, 2006

Education:

• MFA Creative Writing – Poetry, Antioch University, Los Angeles, 2007
• AA Creative Writing – Poetry, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1995
• BA Native American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1992

Areas of expertise:

• Poetry
• Diné Poetics
• Restorative Justice
• Literary Sovereignty
• Indigenous literatures
• Visual Spatial Memory
• Indigenous Intersectionality
• Indigenous Feminisms

Sisseton and Wahpeton Dakota, Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Reservation

Expertise

• 19th and 20th century Native American history
• Indigenous Women’s history
• Native American oral and written traditions
• Native American religions and spirituality
• History of tribal museums and indigenous cultural centers
• Fort Lewis Indian school
• Fort Lewis College Tuition Waiver
• Racial discourse and public spaces

Education

• Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2008
• M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 2004
• B.A., Washington State University, 2002

Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma

Areas of Expertise:

• Indigenous feminisms
• Women of color feminisms
• Indigenous sexual decolonization

Education:

• Ph.D. Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2019
• Certificate in College Teaching, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 2018
• M.A. Indigenous Governance, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 2012
• M.A. International Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 2007
• B.A. International Studies, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado, 2004

Areas of expertise:

• Linguistics
• Native American Languages
• Language Documentation, Preservation, and Revitalization
• Navajo & Na-Dene Languages and Linguistics
• Polysynthesis in Languages of the Americas
• Language Change and Shift

Education:

• Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Arizona, Anticipated 2024
• M.A. in Linguistics (Specialization in Native American Languages), University of Arizona, 2021
• B.A. in Linguistics, University of Arizona, 2014

Areas of expertise:

• Language, land, and epistemology
• Social and critical theory
• Critical Indigenous theory
• Indigenous archives
• Indigenous science and technology studies

Education:

• Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2022
• M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 2015
• M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 2013
• B.A., Kalamazoo College, 2006