Established in the summer of 2022, the Global Indigenous Studies Network has grown to more than forty-five members from more than twenty different departments and institutions across Indiana University.
Associate Director, Student Involvement & Leadership Center
Research topics: Cultural Anthropology, Native American social dance and powwow culture, War Dance Societies, material culture, Lakota Language education, Native American music.
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
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
Executive Director of University Collections
Research topics: Preserving fraternal and religious memorabilia and collections and finding innovative ways to engage new audiences with primary sources and collections.
Senior Lecturer, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Research topics: Identity politics, heritage, tourism, anthropology of art, ethics, visual ethnography, applied anthropology, language revitalization, and representation in Mexico.
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
Co-Founder and Head Coordinator Global Indigenous Studies Network
Research topics: Quechua, local and global Indigenous studies, sociolinguistics, language policy and planning, language revitalization, and translingual literacies.
Head of Area Studies, Librarian for Latin American, Iberian, Latino, and Chicano-Riqueño Studies
Research topics: Catalan, Chicano Riqueño Studies, European Studies, Latin American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Spanish and Portuguese and African Studies
Academic Specialist and Director, College of Arts and Sciences, American Indian Studies Research Institute
Research topics: Linguistic anthropology, Indigenous language reclamation/revitalization, language policy and planning, verbal art, sociocultural learning theory
Associate Professor, Religious Studies
Research topics: ʻIke Hawaiʻi (Native Hawaiian thought), Indigenous philosophy, comparative religion
Director of the Center for the Study of Global Change, HLS
Research topics: Global studies, Mesoamerican archaeology, identity and community formation, Latin American studies, community-engaged learning, internationalizing education
Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies & Asian American Studies Program
Research topics: Examines US empire in and around the Pacific Ocean and draws from diasporic Asian, Asian American and Pacific Islander literatures and cultures
Senior Associate Director of Student Success, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies
Research topics: Linguistic fieldwork, Community involvement in language documentation, phonology, tone
Associate Director of Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Research topics: Indigenous rights advocacy, Indigenous language use and preservation in the Americas.
Laura and Raymond Wielgus Curator of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and Indigenous Art of the Americas, Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art
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.
Professor of History and Native American and Indigenous Studies and Carmony Chair, Department of History
Research topics: Native North America, economic history, diplomacy, Indigenous futurism, Midwest.
Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Cultures
Director of East Asian Studies Center, HLS
Research topics: Medieval Japan; social history; environmental history; conflicts and violence studies Organized a speaker series on East Asian Indigenous Cultures, which then developed into this Global Indigenous Studies network
Provost Professor, Anthropology
Research topics: restitutive justice, research ethics, community museums, public archaeology, Maya land rights, Kyrgyz heritage, Russian colonialism, gender in archaeology
Assistant Professor, American Studies and Latino Studies Program
Research topics: Punk, Transfeminisms, Hemispheric Americas, popular music, visual culture
Associate Professor, Department of Second Language Studies
Research topics: language acquisition, bilingualism, environmental linguistics, biocultural diversity conservation
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Research topics: Linguistic anthropology, Semiotic anthropology; Verbal art, Youth and adolescence, Mesoamerican languages and cultures
Assistant Professor, Linguistics
Research topics: Language technology, Mesoamerica, Nahuatl
Research Associate, American Indian Studies Research Institute
Research topics: Ethnohistory of Indigenous-settler relations in western North America, Indigenous literacies and literature, Critical bibliography and book history, material culture.
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.
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.
Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies