Applied Indigenous Studies Faculty

Name &Title

Credentials

Focus

At NAU

Curtis M. Hinsley Jr., Ph.D., Professor in Applied Indigenous Studies, Regents’ Professor in History

(B.A., Princeton University; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison 1976)

U.S. intellectual and cultural history, history of anthropology

NAU 1988  

Devon A. Mihesuah, Ph.D., Professor in Applied Indigenous Studies

(B.S., M.A., Ph.D., Texas Christian University 1989)

American Indians, American Indian women, activism, writing methodology

NAU 1989  

Gary Paul Nabhan, Ph.D., Professor in Applied Indigenous Studies and Environmental Sciences, Director of Center for Sustainable Environments

(B.A., Prescott College; M.S., Ph.D., University of Arizona 1983)

Ethnobotany, pollinators, sustainable agriculture

NAU 2000

Dean Smith, Ph.D., Professor in Applied Indigenous Studies and Economics

(B.S., Clemson University; M.S., Oklahoma State University; Ph.D., Texas A&M University 1989)

Economics, Native American economic development, energy policy, spatial economics, mathematical economics, public economics, environmental economics, pricing strategies

NAU 1989

Octaviana V. Trujillo, Ph.D., Professor in Applied Indigenous Studies, Department Chair

(B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Arizona State University 1991)

Native language policy and literacy development, American Indian education

NAU 2002

Adjunct Faculty

Laura S. Monti, Ph.D., Research Associate

Laurie.Monti@nau.edu

(B.S., Maryville University; M.S., St. Louis University; Ph.D., University of Arizona 2002)

Arid land resource sciences, ethnoecology, human and environmental health and healing

NAU 2000