Department Directory
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Kari L. Quiballo American Indian Studies PhD Candidate/Graduate Teaching Assistant/Graduate Research Assistant Email: kariqui@email.arizona.edu Kari L. Quiballo is currently a Doctoral Candidate and LIbrary Information Associate in Access and Information Services at UA's Main Library. She has recently completed a Research Assistantship at the Native Nations Institute (NNI) working on the US Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network (USIDSN).... |
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Jacelle Ramon-Sauberan PhD Candidate and Faculty at Tohono O'odham Community College Email: jaceller@email.arizona.edu Office: Harvill Building Room 304 Jacelle Ramon-Sauberan is Tohono O'odham and from the San Xavier District. She is currently a Doctoral Candidate in American Indian Studies with a minor in Journalism and faculty in the Tohono O'odham Studies Program at Tohono O'odham Community College. Jacelle has served on the American Indian... |
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Tristan Reader Assistant Professor of Practice Email: treader@email.arizona.edu Office: Harvill 226D Tristan Reader is Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of American Indian Studies and the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Arizona. His work focuses on: ...[more information] |
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Gregory Redhouse Adjunct Faculty Email: gregory1@email.arizona.edu FAX: (520) 621-7952
Ya'at'eeh! Shi ei Gregory Redhouse yinishye. Dennehotsodee' naasha. Sha'alchini taa', alaaji' naaghahigii, shi-tsi' Haylei wolye, aadoo' alniiji' naaghahigii, shiye' Bradley wolye, aadoo' akeedee' naaghahigii, shi-tsi' Octavia wolye. Todich'ii'nii nishli aadoo' Bit'ahnii... |
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Gina Richard TEL: (520) 626-5055 FAX: (520) 621-7952 Office: Harvill 320E-1 Areas of expertise and research interests: history of Indian removal, allotment, and assimilation; Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act; cultural continuity; archaeology in the context of collaboration with descendant communities; ethics; Native American identity and... |
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Sheila Rocha FAX: (520) 621-7952 [more information] |
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Mikhelle Ross-Mulkey FAX: (520) 621-7952 I am an enrolled Cherokee citizen and plan to conduct my PhD research on leadership styles back home in Tahlequah, Oklahoma were I plan to remain after graduation. My oldest two children plan to attend Sequoyah High School next year. I am currently job searching at Northeastern State... |
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Michelle Sanchez [more information] |
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Matthew Schwoebel TEL: (520) 626-9191 FAX: (520) 621-7952 Office: Harvill 320D [more information] |
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Emory Sekaquaptewa Emory Sekaquaptewa (December 28, 1928 – December 14, 2007) was an anthropologist, artist, Hopi Court judge, and a University professor. He was affiliated with the University of Arizona since 1972 and was Acting Director of American Indian Studies from 1987-1988. Professor Sekaquaptewa’s... |
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Elizabeth Shulterbrandt Email: eshulter2238@email.arizona.edu My name is Elizabeth Shulterbrandt and I am originally from the U.S. Virgin Islands. I completed my BA in Political Science at Scripps College in Claremont, CA. After undergrad, I became involved in the local Native community in the Inland Empire, (LA Area) CA, through my work as a Community... [more information] |
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Michael Simpson FAX: (520) 621-7952 I have two great adult children. I have done many things in my life: attorney, teacher (from inner city and reservation high schools to community college to university to law school), insurance and financial services, mediator, and various blue-collar jobs. Worked my way through school and... |
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Kestrel Smith Ph.D. Graduate, American Indian Studies Email: kestrels@email.arizona.edu Dr. Kestrel A. Smith is an instructor of American Indian Studies (AIS), whose teaching and research broadly explore American Indian culture, history, and contemporary issues, with an emphasis on American Indian education and epistemologies. Much of her work has focused on how to place Native... |
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Dr. Jose Soto Assistant Professor Email: jrs@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-1054 FAX: (520) 621-8801 Office: ENR2 N216 Dr. Jose Soto is an AIS affiliated faculty member and an assistant professor at the School of Natural Resources and the Environment. His research intrests include: modeling of coupled natural-human systems at different spatial and temporal scales for both fundamental... [more information] |
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Tarissa Spoonhunter Tarissa Spoonhunter, under direction of her dissertation chair, Dr. Benedict J. Colombi, received the very prestigious UA Excellence Graduate Fellowship in the Social Sciences. For additional information about the award, please go to: ... |
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Rachel Starks [more information] |
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Jay Stauss Jay Stauss, Jamestown S’Klallam; served as Director of AIS for the past decade. Fall, 2002 he made the transition back to the faculty. His most recent books include, Native American Studies In Higher Education, Alta Mira Press, Walnut Creek (2002), a text co-edited with Duane Champagne,... |
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Jennifer Stern Email: jebs@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-4578 Office: Harvill 235A A New Jersey native, Jennifer graduated from Penn State with degrees in literature, journalism, and women's studies. She continued her education at UNLV, graduating with a Master's Degree in English. In 2012, she moved to Tucson and began pursuing a Ph.D. in American Indian Studies, minoring in... |
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Sherrie Stewart TEL: (520) 626-3397 FAX: (520) 621-7952 Office: Harvill 304-1 Originally from Texas, I have lived in Las Vegas, Nevada, farmed in northern Michigan, floated around on a sailboat for about a year in the Florida Keys, survived ten years of the break-neck pace in Los Angeles, California, and then moved to Tucson in 1991. My husband and I started our own... |
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Mary Stoecklein Email: mstoeck@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520)-626-7007 Office: Harvill 306 [more information] |
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Richard Stoffle TEL: (520) 621-2462 FAX: (520) 621-9608 Office: Haury 317A Richard Stoffle is a Full Research Anthropologist with the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology with the AIS interdisciplinary faculty. Professor Stoffle is a graduate of the University of Colorado, and earned his MA and PhD degrees at the University of Kentucky, and taught at... |
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Xiaochen Sun TEL: (520) 626-3405 FAX: (520) 621-7952 Office: Harvill 340-1 [more information] |
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Matthew Tafoya [more information] |
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Melissa Tatum GIDP Chair-Director of Graduate Studies Email: mtatum@email.arizona.edu TEL: 631-4222 Professor Tatum specializes in tribal jurisdiction and tribal courts, as well as in issues relating to cultural property and sacred places. She was a contributing author to Felix Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law, and has written extensively... |
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Ronald Trosper Professor Email: rltrosper@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-7108 FAX: (520) 621-7952 Office: Harvill 237A Dr. Trosper is examining principles of Indigenous economics and writing a book on the topic. He is interested in the areas in which he teaches for the purposes of serving on student committees; in addition to Indigenous economics, he teaches in the areas of Native Nation Building,... |
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Ashley Tsosie-Mahieu Ph.D. Student Email: atsosie2@email.arizona.edu Ashley Tsosie-Mahieu (Navajo) is a Ph.D. Student in the American Indian Studies Department concentrating in the area of American Indian Education while simultaneously working toward a Certification in Higher Education. She holds a Master’s of Education degree in Educational Policy Studies with a... |
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Aresta Tsosie-Paddock Career Track Assistant Professor TEL: (520) 626-9110 FAX: (520) 621-7952 Office: Harvill 226B Ya’at’eeh, Shi ei Dr. Aresta Tsosie-Paddock yinishye. My Navajo clans are Naakai Dine'e/To’aheedliinii (Journeying People/Water Flows Together clan) born for Biih'bitoo’nii (Deer Springs clan), maternal grandfathers are Tl'izi lani (Many Goats clan) and paternal grandfathers are Kinyaa'aanii (... |
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Franci Washburn Professor TEL: (520) 626-8581 FAX: (520) 621-7952 Office: Harvill 226B Franci Washburn holds Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Arts degrees in English, Creative Writing, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of New Mexico. She writes poetry, short fiction and novels, and has published articles in Indigenous Nations Studies Journal, American Indian... |
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Mary Willie TEL: (520) 621-9726 FAX: (520) 621-9014 Office: Communications 108A Mary Willie Navajo; holds a tenure track appointment in Linguistics with a shared appointment in American Indian Studies. Professor Willie's latest scholarship focuses on psych verbs in Navajo, the expression of modality in Navajo, and number and person in Dine. She is developing a major... |
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Cathy Wilson [more information] |
