Associate Professor, Department of History and Native American and Indigenous Studies
Research topics: Native America, 20th century, film, labor, women, violence, capitalism, crime, carcerality, and sovereignty
Steering Committee Faculty Members
Distinguished Professor
Department of Anthropology
Research topics: Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, Environmental and Economic Anthropology, Land Use and Landscape History, Sustainability Sciences, Institutions and Collective Action, Household Economy and Demographics
Professor, Department of Linguistics
Research topics: Language documentation, Technologies for corpus creation in low resourced languages, Digital language archiving, Tibeto-Burman morphosyntax, Language typology
Assistant Professor, The Media School
Research topics: Visual Communication, science communication, environmental communication, race and media, persuasion, media effects theories, communication in diaspora, Native American and Indigenous media
Associate Professor, Religious Studies
Research topics: ʻIke Hawaiʻi (Native Hawaiian thought), Indigenous philosophy, comparative religion
Assistant Professor, American Studies and Latino Studies Program
Research topics: Punk, Transfeminisms, Hemispheric Americas, popular music, visual culture
Assistant Professor, Linguistics
Research topics: Language technology, Mesoamerica, Nahuatl
Assistant Professor, Central Eurasian Studies and Anthropology
Research topics: Tibetan studies, urbanization, place-based identities, production of place, historical geographies, ethnic minority policy in 20th c. China.