I am a comparative and critical ethnic studies scholar interested in the intersections between ethnic studies, cultural geography, and indigenous studies. My research focuses on issues of race, space, and indigenous geographies. My book, Native Space: Indigenous Strategies to Unsettle Settler Colonialism (OSU Press, and the First Peoples series) illustrates the ways that Native people in North America sustain and create indigenous geographies in settler colonial nations. My second book, A People's Guide to Portland and Beyond (pre-contract with UC Press), highlights lesser known sites of social justice and oppression across the city of Portland. I also write on pedagogy, cartography, contemporary media, college cultural centers, and popular culture. My writings appear in the Journal of Geography, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Cartographica, Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, Diversity in Disney Films (MacFarland), AAG Review of Books,Teaching Race in the 21st Century (Palgrave/Springer), Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Nexus: Complicating Community and Centering the Self (Cognella), and Oregon Humanities. In addition to the book, I am currently working on 1) an article about teaching Ethnic Studies during study abroad, 2) a co-authored project about toponyms in national parks ("Words are Monuments: Racism and Colonialism Conserved in Place Names" - pre-print version), 3) a multi-genre work on land as a collaborative project between e-flux journal and the Guggenheim, and 4) co-guest editing a special issue of Mobilities journal, "Mobilizing Race and Indigeneity Within and Against Settler Colonialism" (forthcoming 2022).
My most notable pedagogical project is the ongoing Social Justice Tours of Corvallis (see below), a student-led research and experiential community learning series.
I have worked extensively with on-campus cultural centers [see this video on the OSU cultural centers, the UCSD Cross-Cultural Center page, and Sacramento State University's Multicultural Center], with a special emphasis on combining scholarship, mentoring, and community building. Before joining Oregon State University I taught at a number of schools, including California College of the Arts (Critical Studies), San Francisco State University (American Indian Studies), and UC San Diego (Ethnic Studies).
Several years ago, I had the honor of interviewing some of OSU's Native American Longhouse staff, as part of a collaborative oral history project between the Longhouse, Ethnic Studies, and Oregon Multicultural Archives.
Student Research and Highlights
Social Justice Tours of Corvallis (1, 2, 3, and 4) -- all created by/with my Ethnohistory Methodology classes
Courses taught
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Making Alliances & Solidarities
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Environmental Racism (including Honors)
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Indigenous Ocean and Coast (pending)
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Introduction to Native American Studies (including Honors)
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Research Methods: Ethnic Studies
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Ethnohistory Methodology
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Native American Assimilation and Activism (including Honors)
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Public Discourse and Writing on Race (Writing Intensive Course)
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Introduction to Ethnic Studies
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Race, Space, and Difference
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Mapping Activism and Power in Portland and Beyond (Honors)
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London, Sugar, and Slavery (Honors-in London, summer 2017)
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Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity in Japan (Honors-in Tokyo, summer 2019)
Media and Interviews
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Native Space interview, NewBooks Network
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Indigenous Peoples, in Oregon and Beyond, are Decolonizing Maps, Oregon Public Broadcasting
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Underground History: Seeing the Landscape with Indigenous Eyes, Jefferson Public Radio
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Indigenous Cartographers Work to Decolonize Maps, Indian Country Today
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Mapping with Purpose, Eugene Weekly
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Native Peoples Redrawing the Map, Corvallis Advocate
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OSU Professor Helps to Recenter the Map, Albany Democrat-Herald
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An Oregon State University Professor Wants to Decolonize Mapping by Recentering Indigenous Cartography, Willamette Week
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Indigenous Cartographers Work to Decolonize Mapping of Traditional Lands, OSU News
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Reclaiming Native Space, Terra Magazine
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Naming Project Aims to Remind Visitors that Marys Peak is Still Sacred to Tribes, The Oregonian (note: I am not an Ojibwe tribal member as stated in text)
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Tribe Helping Name Marys Peak Creeks, Smoke Signals (Grand Ronde tribal newspaper)
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Decrepit Fish Camps Built on Broken Promises, The Oregonian (find me in the video)
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Giving Due to the Marginalized (on Social Justice Tour of Corvallis #1), Corvallis Gazette-Times
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On Indian headdresses & fashion, Radio New Zealand (9.20 mark)
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