
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
Since the summer of 2022, our network has grown to more than forty-five members from more than twenty different departments and institutions across Indiana University. Over the next couple of weeks and months, we hope to be able to list all of these people here along with their affiliations and their research interests in the network. We also hope to be able to showcase our global partners, so check in again later for more updates.
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
Research Scientist and Executive Director of University Collections
Research topics: Preservation of material culture, hidden collections, fraternal and religious organizations, emerging technologies, archival and primary source use, application and engagement, special collections, New Mexico history
Professor, School of Education
Research topics: Sociolinguistics, language policy and planning, language revitalization, translingual literacies in the Andes of South America, and in the Americas and in Asia more generally.
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
Ruth N. Halls Professor of Folklore and Anthropology
Research topics: Native North America, Upland Southwest China, Craft, Heritage, Museums, Material Culture, Historical Consciousness, Ritual, Recognition, Appropriation, Cultural Property, Expressive Culture
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
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
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research topics: Yoron, Amami, Okinawa, Ryukyu, Japan, language conservation, language maintenance, language revitalization, heritage language
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
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