The UCLA American Indian Studies Center Faculty Advisory Committee comprises of members from different departments all over the campus. Click on each individual members' research focus to read more about them.
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Professor Teresa McCarty
UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
Email: teresa.mccarty@ucla.edu
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Members of the Faculty Advisory Committee |
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Associate Professor Jessica Cattelino
Department of Anthropology
Email: jesscatt@anthro.ucla.edu
Research Focus
Associate Professor Cattelino's research focuses on economy, nature, indigeneity, and settler colonialism. She studies and teaches about sociocultural life in the contemporary United States.
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Assistant Professor Erin Debenport
Department of Anthropology
Email: erindebenport@ucla.edu
Research Focus
I am a linguistic and sociocultural anthropologist, interested in technologies of language circulation, secrecy and (in)visibility, indigeneity and sovereignty, and critical language documentation. My work is concentrated in the Pueblo Southwest and the Mexico-Texas-New Mexico border region.
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Associate Professor Mishuana Goeman
Department of Gender Studies
Email: goeman@gender.ucla.edu
Research Focus
Native American Literature, 20th Century American Literature, Race and Ethnic Theory
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Professor Paul Kroskrity
Department of Anthropology
Email: paulvk@ucla.edu
Research Focus
Language and culture, language contact, language and identity, language ideologies, anthropology and verbal art, and the ethnography of communication; American Indian Languages (especially the Kiowa-Tanoan and Uto-Aztecan families); the Pueblo Southwest, Central California.
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Assistant Professor Ananda Marin
Department of Education
Email: marin@gseis.ucla.edu
Research Focus
I explore questions about the socio-cultural dimensions of learning and development in everyday and intergenerational contexts. In one line of work I examine the practices that children and families use to reason and build knowledge about the natural world. I am particularly interested in (1) how families coordinate attention and observation while participating in science activities, (2) how mobility and place structure activity and (3) cultural variability in sensemaking practices such as question-asking and explaining. I also investigate Native American participation in STEM and cultural models of self as related to senses of capability and competence. Across my scholarship, I take a participatory approach and employ a variety of research designs and methods including: community-based design research, cognitive tasks, studies of everyday practices, content analysis, discourse analysis, interaction analysis and video-ethnography. Through my work I aim to answer basic research questions about development, innovate methods, and design teaching and learning tools that contribute to the goals and well-being of Indigenous and non-dominant communities.
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Assistant Professor Kyle T. Mays
Department of African American Studies
Email: mayskyle@ucla.edu
Research Focus
Indigenous Studies, Critical Ethnic Studies, and Indigenous popular culture.
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Professor Nancy Marie Mithlo
Department of Gender Studies
Email: mithlo@ucla.edu
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Associate Professor Stella Nair
Department of Art History
Email: snair@humnet.ucla.edu
Research Focus
Stella Nair’s scholarship focuses on the built environment of indigenous communities in the Americas and is shaped by her interests in construction technology, spatial theory, material culture studies, landscape transformations, cross-cultural exchange, and hemispheric networks. Trained as an architect and architectural historian (University of California, Berkeley), Nair has conducted fieldwork in Bolivia, Mexico, Peru, and the United States, with ongoing projects in the South Central Andes.
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Professor Angela R. Riley
School of Law
Email: riley@law.ucla.edu
Research Focus
Her research focuses on issues related to indigenous peoples’ rights, with a particular emphasis on cultural property and Native governance.
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Dr. Wendy Teeter
Curator of Archaeology, Fowler Museum
Email: wteeter@arts.ucla.edu
Research Focus
Her research focuses on issues related to indigenous peoples’ rights, with a particular emphasis on cultural property and Native governance.
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