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Octaviana Trujillo (Yaqui), Ph.D., Professor and Department Chair of Applied Indigenous Studies.  (B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Arizona State University - 1991).  Native Language policy and literacy development, American Indian education.  NAU 2002.

e-mail: octaviana.trujillo@nau.edu

 

 

Lomayumtewa Ishii (Hopi), Ph.D., Assistant Professor (B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Northern Arizona University - 2001).  Native American history and historiography, American West and borderlands.  NAU 2004.

e-mail: lomayumtew.ishii@nau.edu

 

 

Karen Jarratt-Snider (Mississippi Choctaw), Ph.D., Assistant Professor (B.S., M.P.A., Ph.D., Northern Arizona University - 2006).  Indigenous Environmental Justice, Forestry Policy and Indigenous People, Tribal Community Participatory Research Models, Federalism-American Indian Intergovernmental Relations, Tribal Administration, Federal Indian Policy and Law, and Indigenous Peoples Rights in Internation Law and Policy.  NAU 2008 

e-mail: karen.jarratt-snider@nau.edu

 

Patrick Pynes, (Cherokee), Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor (B.A., Trinity University; M.A., Texas Tech; Ph.D., University of New Mexico - 2000).  Indigenous Environmental justice, Etnobotany, Literature, Writing, American Studies, Native American Studies, Environmental Studies and Southwest Studies.  NAU 2000.

e-mail: patrick.pynes@nau.edu

 

 

Priscilla Sanderson (Navajo), Ph.D., Assistant Professor (B.A., Southwestern College; M.S., Oklahoma State University; Ph.D., University of Arizona - 2005).  Public Health, Vocational Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Counseling, and Career Prevention and Control.  NAU 2005 

e-mail: priscilla.sanderson@nau.edu

 

 

Adjunct Faculty

Thomas Alcoze, Ph.D., Professor (B.S., M.S., University of North Texas; Ph.D., Michigan State University - 1981).  Restoration, ecology, land-use practices of Native American nations in the Southwest.  NAU 1990.                         

e-mail: thom.alcoze@nau.edu

 

 

Jeffery Berglund, Ph.D., Professor in English, Affiliated Faculty (B.A.,  Creighton University; M.A., Washington University; Ph.D., Ohio State University - 1996).  Native American literature, American literature.  NAU 1999.  

e-mail: jeffery.berglund@nau.edu





Curtis "Kit" M. Hinsley Jr., Ph.D., Regents’ Professor in History (B.A., Princeton University; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison - 1976).  U.S. intellectual and cultural history, history of anthropology.  NAU 1980.  

e-mail: curtis.hinsley@nau.edu

 

Dean Howard Smith (Mohawk), Ph.D., Associate Professor in Economics. (B.S., Clemson University; M.S., Oklahoma State University; Ph.D., Texas A&M University - 1989).  Economics, Native American economic development, spatial economics, mathematical economics, public economics, environmental economics, pricing strategies, energy policy.  NAU 1989.  www.franke.nau.edu

e-mail: dean.smith@nau.edu

 

Michael Vasquez, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology, Affiliated Faculty, (B.A. University of California- Berkeley; M.A., San Francisco State University; M.S., Ph.D., University of California-Davis - 1989).  Applied anthropology, indigenous agriculture, cultural ecology, rural and agricultural development; North and Central America, U.S. Southwest.  NAU 1989. 

e-mail: michael.vasquez@nau.edu

 

 

Resident Elders

Maybelle Little (Navajo), Resident Elder (B.S., Northern Arizona University - 1989).  Elementary and Mid-School level in bilingual education-emphasizing in Navajo Language, writing, Traditional ethnobothany.  She is also a lecturer for local educational institutions here in Flagstaff.  NAU 2006.

 e-mail: maybelle.little@nau.edu

 

 

Bob Lomadafkie (Hopi), Resident Elder (B.S., Northern Arizona University - 1972).  Public Speaker, Teacher, Jeweler, and Designer.  Hopi Art and Community Service.  NAU 2006.
 
e-mail: bob.lomadafkie@nau.edu

 

 

Marina Xoc Castillo de Vasquez (Mayan), Resident Elder (B.A., Northern Arizona University - 1999).  Bilingual-Multicultural Education in the local schools and community service programs. Master basket maker-specializing in traditional Pine needle baskets.  NAU 2006.

Email: marina.vasquez@nau.edu

 

 

Staff

Kathleen Frank (Navajo), Administrative Associate (B.S., Northern Arizona University - 1992; In Process - Masters in Administration-Public Management & Leadership).  NAU 2008