About Me
About Me
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I am an enrolled citizen of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community and a Ph.D. candidate in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. My current project, Bordering the Nation, takes an Indigenous approach to the study of the US-Mexico borderlands. The project has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and numerous fellowships, centers, and institutes on Berkeley's campus. |
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TEACHING
Heavily influenced by Maori scholar Linda Tuhiwai Smith, I assert that research must be grounded in the material concerns of the communities it studies. My courses, seminars, and workshops introduce students to Indigenous histories, issues, and methodologies and prepare them to generate engaged research by modeling responsibility, interdisciplinarity, collaboration, and flexibility.
SERVICE
My commitment to diversity and inclusion stems from my own experience as a first-generation Ph.D., and low-income student. While an undergraduate at Columbia University, I co-founded AlterNATIVE Education, a 501c3 by and for Native students focused on education, mentorship, and college-readiness. Now, as a Ph.D. candidate at Cal, I continue to contribute to Native communities both on and off Berkeley's campus. I serve on the Native American Advisory Council to the Vice Chancellor of Equity and Inclusion, and I led the American Indian Graduate Student Association at UC Berkeley from 2015-2018. I am also currently the coordinator for the Graduate Fellows Program in the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues (ISSI)
INTER ALIA
On a personal note, in fall of 2018, I played Antikoni in the staged reading of Beth Piatote's adaptation of the Sophocles' tragedy by the same name. I have an 'i:bhai (prickly pear) garden and a Rez-cue cat/writing sidekick named Mo. I have also participated in the AZ Ironman as a Salt River triathlete.
CONTACT ME
fantasia.painter@berkeley.edu
Heavily influenced by Maori scholar Linda Tuhiwai Smith, I assert that research must be grounded in the material concerns of the communities it studies. My courses, seminars, and workshops introduce students to Indigenous histories, issues, and methodologies and prepare them to generate engaged research by modeling responsibility, interdisciplinarity, collaboration, and flexibility.
SERVICE
My commitment to diversity and inclusion stems from my own experience as a first-generation Ph.D., and low-income student. While an undergraduate at Columbia University, I co-founded AlterNATIVE Education, a 501c3 by and for Native students focused on education, mentorship, and college-readiness. Now, as a Ph.D. candidate at Cal, I continue to contribute to Native communities both on and off Berkeley's campus. I serve on the Native American Advisory Council to the Vice Chancellor of Equity and Inclusion, and I led the American Indian Graduate Student Association at UC Berkeley from 2015-2018. I am also currently the coordinator for the Graduate Fellows Program in the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues (ISSI)
INTER ALIA
On a personal note, in fall of 2018, I played Antikoni in the staged reading of Beth Piatote's adaptation of the Sophocles' tragedy by the same name. I have an 'i:bhai (prickly pear) garden and a Rez-cue cat/writing sidekick named Mo. I have also participated in the AZ Ironman as a Salt River triathlete.
CONTACT ME
fantasia.painter@berkeley.edu
'ida 'o O’odham jeved
(This is O'odham land)
(This is O'odham land)