Research interests: Q'eqchi' Maya; Belize & Guatemala; food sovereignty; maize; resistance to GMOs; land grabs; agrarian change; pesticides; Indigenous social movements, international environmental justice; environmental health; corporate trade and globalization; foreign aid and empire; biodiversity conservation; political ecology; the commons.
Research and teaching interests: Native American/Indigenous Poetry; Contemporary Indigenous literature of Mexico and Chile; Indigenous Religious Traditions; Native American Literature in Performance; the relationship of creativity, spirituality, autonomy, and social justice; cultural (trans)formations of identity and community; creative writing: poetry, creative non-fiction, short fiction; the recovery of her Niimiipuu language.
Research and teaching interests: Julie's research is invested in a decolonizing project and is in conversation with the fields of Performance Studies, Cultural Studies, and Indigenous studies among others.
Research and teaching interests: Native American and Indigenous Studies; Settler Colonial Studies; History of Race and Medicine; Disability Studies.
Research and teaching interests: Native American and Indigenous Studies; Sociology of Education, Sociology of Race; Critical Mixed Race Studies; Two-Spirit, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Medical Sociology, Public Health and HIV; Research Justice, CBPR and Indigenous Methodologies; Decolonial Education; Queer Indigenous Knowledges; Creole, Black, Latinx and Comparative Critical Ethnic Studies.
Research and teaching interests: Indigenous education, tribal community-university partnerships, trans-Indigenous education.
Research and teaching interests: Maya social movements and resistance, extractivist industries, migration, and forced displacement, Guatemala, Central American Studies, U.S.-Mexico border.
Research and teaching interests: Native American Memoir, Mesoamerican Literature and Culture, Chicanx Literature, and other courses on borderlands, and Chicanx and indigenous literature and culture.
Research and teaching interests: c. 1800-1945, c. 1945-present, American Literature, American Race and Ethnic Studies, Creative Writing and/or Performance, Environment and Ecocriticism, Genders and Sexualities, Global Literatures, Indigenous and/or Decolonial Studies, Latinx and/or Chicanx Studies, Media Studies
Research and teaching interests: Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS), Literature, Gender and Sexuality, Environmental Humanities, Cultural Studies
Interested in joining the NAIS Online Faculty Consortium?
Contact chmkelly@ucdavis.edu