Members

Faculty

Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer

^{Anthropology, Berkley Center}
_{Siberia and Native North America}

Patricia Biermayr-Jenzano

^{Center for Latin American Studies}
_{Women and gender studies, Indigenous Quechua women, environmental health}

Mathew Carnes

^Government
_{Jesuit studies and labor; Director, Center for Latin American Studies}

Reid Chambers

^{GU Law}
_{Teaches seminar in Federal Indian Law; Partner, Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Endreson & Perry LLP}

Jeffrey Collmann

^{Center for Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Studies, School of Medicine}
_{Australian aborigines}

Kerry Danner-McDonald

^{Dept. of Theology}
_{Christian ethics}

Kevin FitzGerald

^{Center for Clinical Bioethics, Dept. of Oncology}
_{Medical genomics and ethics}

Lisbeth Fuisz

^{Dept. of English}
_{Human/natural world relationships, Native American writers}

Desha Girod

^{Dept. of Government}
_{Comparative, with focus on Americas, including historical data}

Anita Gonzalez

Racial Justice Institute, GU

Performing arts and indigeneity

Gillette Hall

^{SFS, Global Human Development Program}
_{Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Development}

Kevin Healy

^{Latin American Studies, SFS}
_{Development and community building, former Peace Corps, Inter-American Foundation}

Nathan Hensley

^{Dept. of English}
_{Environmental Humanities; Co-Director, “Approaching the Anthropocene: Global Culture and Planetary Change” (2016-2018 Mellon-Sawyer Seminar)}

Zach Hettinger

^{MD, School of Medicine}
_{MedStar Institute for Innovation, Santee/Yankton Sioux, Rosebud Reservation, Northwest Coast art}

Bette Jacobs

^{Dept of Health Systems Administration (former Dean); O’Neill Institute of Law}
_{Native America, genetics and health research}

Shana Klein

^{Dept. of Art and Art History}
_{Native-American art, visual culture theory}

Erick Langer, emeritus

^{SFS, History, Latin American Studies}
_{Andean, Guarani, Toba (Qom) languages; teaches “Resistance and Rebellion in the Andes,” “Indians and Spaniards in the Conquest”}

Emily Mendenhall

^STIA
_{Global health, medical anthropology, global mental health, syndemics, diabetes}

Gwen Mikell, emeritus

^{Dept. of Anthropology}
_{Africa, including indigenous politics, nation building, gender}

Jim Millward

^{Dept. of History}
_{Central Asia, silk road, Uighurs}

Sherally Munshi

^{GU Law Center}

Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner

Dept. of Philosophy

Jason Sanderson

^{Office of Global Education}
_{European minorities, migration issues, international programs assessment}

Joanne Rappaport, emeritus

^{Latin American Studies, Dept. of Anthropology}
_{Indigenous and colonial histories}

Elcior Santana

^{Center for Latin American Studies}

Milena Santoro

^{Dept. of French}
_{Indigeneity in the Americas, Film Studies; teaches all-indigenous film course for Film and Media Studies, FMST 100}

Henry Schwarz, emeritus

^{Dept. of English}
_{Post-colonial India, ‘tribal’peoples}

Erika Seamon

^{American Studies}
_{Native North America, colonial history and texts; Director, American Studies program}

Maura Seale

^{Research and Instruction Librarian}
_{Library liaison to American Studies and African American Studies programs}

Lisa Strong

^{Dept. of Art and Art History, American Studies}
_{Art and museum studies}

Alan Tidwell

^{Director, Center for Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Studies}
_{Legal issues, indigenous land and conflict project}

John Tutino

^{Dept. of History}
_{Native Americas project, Mexico (organized symposium “Becoming Indigenous, Asserting Indigeneity” 2013)}

Jason G. Umans

^{Department of Medicine}
_{Assessing mechanisms of Health Disparities impacting, and seeking health equity for, American Indian and Alaska Native peoples}

Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila

^{Latin American Studies, Dept. of Anthropology}

Myriam Vuckovic

^{Department of International Health}
_{Native education history}

Andria K. Wisler

Executive Director, Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service Associate Teaching Professor, Justice & Peace Studies

Graduate Students

Daniel Cano

^{PhD student, Dept. of History}
_{Mapuche and Guarani history}

Claire B. Crawford

^{MA Program in Conflict Resolution, Dept. of Government}
_{American Indian Movement (AIM)}
_{“Paralleled Movements: Black Power and AIM’s Renewal of Cultural Identities”}

Kunyu Fang

^{MA Program in Conflict Resolution, Dept. of Government}
_{“Comparison of Tibetan and Uighur Relations with/in China”}

Chelsea Hudson

^{PhD Student, Dept. of History}
_{Ainu and North Asia-Pacific history}

Anne Musica

^{MA Student, Language and Communication}
_{Language Policy and Planning, Native North America}

Jenadee Nanini

^{Student, GU Law}
_{Standing Rock panel organizer}

Michelle Pea

^{MA Program in Conflict Resolution, Dept. of Government}
_{Russia, First Nations}

Veronica Quinonez

^{M.A. Program in Conflict Resolution, Dept. of Government}
_{Gender, crime, First Nations}
_{“Law Enforcement in Relation to US Indigenous People: Arrests, Convictions, Barriers to Reporting Crimes”}

Andrew Szarejko

^{PhD Student, Dept. of Government}
_{Political science, international relations, American foreign policy, and American political development}

Students

Arianna D. Calabrese

^Student
_{“Commodifying Culture and the National Museum of American Indian”}

Paola D. Capo

^Student
_{“Integrating Indigenous Peoples into Sustainable Development”}

Mary R. Cielinski

^Student
_{“Native American Head Start: Early Education Programs”}

Josue F. Coronado

^Student
_{“Native American Identity Exploration, Community Building, and Advocacy at Elite Institutions and Tribal Colleges”}

Kathleen M. Coughlin

^Student
_{“Indigenous Language Education and Revival Efforts”}

Whitney Dockrey

^Student
_{Health Care Management and Policy; outgoing President, Native American Student Council}

Alex Feltes

^Student
_{The Native American land trust relationship with the United States government, land issues of Native Americans and First Nations peoples in the U.S. and Canada, poverty on U.S. Indian reservations}

Jesse N. Gibson

^Student
_{“Pipeline Parallels: Exploration of Indigenous Resources by MNCs throughout the Hemisphere”; Native American Student Council, member}

Marissa Ilnitzki

^Student
_{Vice President, Native American Student Council}

Eliana Lanfranco

^Student
_{“Medicine and Indigeneity in North America: Alaskan Natives and Navaho”}

Kelsey S. Lawson

^Student
_{“Mental Health and Alaska Native Youth”}

Claire M. Leduc

^Student
_{“Comparison of Resettlement Policies for Indigenous People who Suffered from Climate Change Catastrophes”}

Gregory A. Martinez

^Student
_{“Indigenous Geopolitics of the Amazon”}

Teresa R. Montanero

^Student
_{“Efforts and Shortcomings of the Ecuadorean government in Preserving Indigenous Language and Culture”}

Jasmin Nava

^Student
_{“The Complex Relationship between Religion and Native Spirituality among Two Indigenous Groups in México”}

Annabelle Ng

^Student
_{“Analyzing Indigenous Health Systems and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic”}

Alexandra Plutnicki

^{Student, McDonough Business School}
_{Leader, Alternative Spring Break program}

Monica Valle

^Student
_{“Structural Violence and the Indigenous Peoples of México”}

Gabrielle Walker

^Student
_{President, Native American Student Council, 2016-2017}

Rebecca Yates

^Student
_{Anthropology major; Native American Student Council, member}

Friends of the Working Group

Randall Amster

^Alumna
_{Director, Program on Justice and Peace}

Mikaela Bledsoe Downes

^Alumna
_{President, Native American Student Council, 2015-2016}

Nicole Heydt

^Alumna
_{Program director, Health Law Initiative
Arimae community, Panama; Ifugao, Philippines}

Mabel Denzin Gergan

^Alumna
_{Mellon-Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Humanities}

Alexander O’Neil

^Alumnus
_{Anthropology and biology major, Nepal studies}

Russell Imrie

^{Activist, Kahnawake Mohawk}

Amanda Phillips

^{English, editing wikipedia for indigeneity themes}

Tom Rogers

^{Activist, Blackfeet Nation}
_{Carlyle Consulting, GU Standing Rock panel}

Caitlin Snell

^Alumna
_{ESJ Research Fellow}

Mark Sicoli

^{Dept. of Anthropology, University of Virginia}
_{Linguistics, Native Languages, Mexico, disappearing languages}

Vera Solovyeva

^{Fellow, American Museum of Natural History}
_{Sakha Republic (Russia) ecology, indigenous rights; Founder, Sakha Open World}

Michelle Stearn

^Alumna
_{Fulbright scholar; Mapuche ecology studies}

Buck Woodard

^{Anthropology, American University}

Kenneth J. Yin

Alumnus

Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, Engaging Eurasia Teacher Fellow at Harvard; Dungan literature, Tungus literatures of Siberia