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Steering Committee

Faculty Members

Associate Professor, Department of History and Native American and Indigenous Studies

Email:: blackli@iu.edu

Research topics: Native America, 20th century, film, labor, women, violence, capitalism, crime, carcerality, and sovereignty

Eduardo S. Brondizio

Distinguished Professor
Department of Anthropology

Email:: ebrondiz@iu.edu

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

Shobhana Chelliah

Professor, Department of Linguistics

Email:: schellia@iu.edu

Research topics: Language documentation, Technologies for corpus creation in low resourced languages, Digital language archiving, Tibeto-Burman morphosyntax, Language typology

Ryan Comfort

Assistant Professor, The Media School

Email:: rcomfort@iu.edu

Research topics: Visual Communication, science communication, environmental communication, race and media, persuasion, media effects theories, communication in diaspora, Native American and Indigenous media

Michael Ing

Associate Professor, Religious Studies

Email:: ming@iu.edu

Research topics: ʻIke Hawaiʻi (Native Hawaiian thought), Indigenous philosophy, comparative religion

Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa

Assistant Professor, American Studies and Latino Studies Program

Email:: olgrodri@iu.edu

Research topics: Punk, Transfeminisms, Hemispheric Americas, popular music, visual culture

Francis Tyers

Assistant Professor, Linguistics

Email:: ftyers@iu.edu

Research topics: Language technology, Mesoamerica, Nahuatl

Eveline Washul

Assistant Professor, Central Eurasian Studies and Anthropology

Email:: ewashul@iu.edu

Research topics: Tibetan studies, urbanization, place-based identities, production of place, historical geographies, ethnic minority policy in 20th c. China.

Ex-officio Members

Serafin Coronel-Molina

Co-Founder and Head Coordinator Global Indigenous Studies Network

Email:: scoronel@iu.edu

Research topics: Quechua, local and global Indigenous studies, sociolinguistics, language policy and planning, language revitalization, and translingual literacies.

Heather K. Calloway

Executive Director of University Collections

Email:: hkc@iu.edu

Research topics: Preserving fraternal and religious memorabilia and collections and finding innovative ways to engage new audiences with primary sources and collections.

Luis Gonzalez

Head of Area Studies, Librarian for Latin American, Iberian, Latino, and Chicano-Riqueño Studies

Email:: luisgonz@iu.edu

Research topics: Catalan, Chicano Riqueño Studies, European Studies, Latin American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Spanish and Portuguese and African Studies

Allison Martino

Laura and Raymond Wielgus Curator of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and Indigenous Art of the Americas, Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art

Email:: martinoa@iu.edu

Research topics: Include textiles and fashion, photography, and contemporary arts in Africa. Also, ceramics through issues related to cross-cultural exchange, borders, embodiment, temporality, and spirituality.

Student Representatives

Paul Ntinda

Graduate Student Representative

Email:: pontinda@iu.edu

Research Topics: African Studies, language education policy, African languages and education systems, positioning of languages in language education, language policy, comparative international education.

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Aaliyah Walker

Undergraduate representative

Email:: aaliwalk@iu.edu

Land Acknowledgement

We wish to acknowledge and honor the Indigenous communities native to this region and recognize that Indiana University Bloomington is built on Indigenous homelands and resources. We recognize the myaamiaki, Lënape, Bodwéwadmik, and saawanwa people as the past, present, and future caretakers of this land. For more information, please visit the IU First Nations Educational & Cultural Center.

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