People

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

Research Scientist and Executive Director of University Collections

Email:
hkc@iu.edu

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

Email:
scoronel@iu.edu

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

Email:
rhenne@iu.edu

Research topics: Linguistic anthropology, Indigenous language reclamation/revitalization, language policy and planning, verbal art, sociocultural learning theory

Associate Professor, Religious Studies

Email:
ming@indiana.edu

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

Ruth N. Halls Professor of Folklore and Anthropology

Email:
jbj@indiana.edu

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

Email:
ekonwest@iu.edu

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

Email:
mortoxen@iu.edu

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

Associate Director, Center for the Study of the Middle East

Email:
pearsonc@indiana.edu

Research topics: 

Provost Professor, Anthropology

Email:
apyburn@indiana.edu

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

Email:
olgrodri@iu.edu

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

Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Email:
tanakan@indiana.edu

Research topics: Yoron, Amami, Okinawa, Ryukyu, Japan, language conservation, language maintenance, language revitalization, heritage language

Assistant Professor, Linguistics

Email:
ftyers@indiana.edu

Research topics: Language technology, Mesoamerica, Nahuatl

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

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.