Applied Indigenous Studies Faculty

Name &Title

Credentials

Focus

At NAU

Lomayumtewa Ishii, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Applied Indigenous Studies and History

(B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Northern Arizona University 2001)

Native American history and historiography, American West and borderlands, Hopi ethnohistory

NAU 2004

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, Yaqui history and culture

NAU 2002

Affiliated Faculty

Jeffrey Berglund, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in English

(B.A., Creighton University; M.A., Washington University; Ph.D., Ohio State University 1996)

Native American literature, American literature

NAU 1999

Curtis M. Hinsley Jr., Ph.D., Regents’ Professor of History

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

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

NAU 1988  

Andrea A. Hunter, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology

(B.A., University of Colorado; M.A., Ph.D., University of Missouri 1992)

Archaeology, paleoethnobotany, remote sensing, geographic information systems, subsistence strategies, indigenous cultural resource management; U.S. Midwest, U.S. Southwest

NAU 1990  

Doreen Martinez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Women's Studies

(B.A. Psychology, Mansfield University, M.S. West Virginia University, C.A.S. (Certificate of Advanced Study)  Syracuse University, Ph.D  Syracuse University 2003)

Race/ethnicity, gender, qualitative research, theory,

Indigenous women, and health/medicine

NAU 2005

Michael L. Vasquez, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology

(B.A., University of California–Berkeley; M.A., San Francisco State University; M.S., Ph.D., University of California–Davis 1989)

Applied anthropology, indigenous agriculture, cultural ecology, rural and agricultural development; North and Central America, U.S. Southwest

NAU 1989  

Elizabeth Wabindato, Ph. D. Assistant Professor of Political Science

(B.A., University of Wisconsin

Ph.D., University of Michigan 200

Native American Politics

NAU 2005

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