Applied Indigenous Studies Faculty

Name &Title

Credentials

Focus

At NAU

(B.S., Fort Lewis College; M.A., University of Arizona; J.D., University of Arizona Rogers College of Law; M.A., University of Arizona Rogers College of Law 2006)

Indigenous Rights Law and Policy and International Human rights.

NAU 2006

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

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

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)

NAU 1989

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