About Me
About Me
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My current book project, Bordering the Nation, takes an Indigenous approach to the study of the US-Mexico borderlands using interdisciplinary methods. I am an enrolled citizen of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. I received my B.A. from Columbia University and my M.A. and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. Before joining the faulty of Global and International Studies at UC Irvine, I was a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at UC Davis. |
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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. As a Ph.D. candidate at Cal, I contributed to Native communities both on and off Berkeley's campus. I served 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 also served as the coordinator for the Graduate Fellows Program in the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues (ISSI). I currently serve as a board member to Survival International's Oakland office.
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 mistol (cat)/writing sidekick named Mo. I have also participated in the AZ Ironman three times as a Salt River triathlete.
CONTACT ME
[email protected]
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. As a Ph.D. candidate at Cal, I contributed to Native communities both on and off Berkeley's campus. I served 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 also served as the coordinator for the Graduate Fellows Program in the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues (ISSI). I currently serve as a board member to Survival International's Oakland office.
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 mistol (cat)/writing sidekick named Mo. I have also participated in the AZ Ironman three times as a Salt River triathlete.
CONTACT ME
[email protected]
'ida 'o O’odham jeved
(This is O'odham land)
(This is O'odham land)