Profiles in "Indigeneity" Expertise Area

  • Wilson teaches composition and is the Indigenous rhetoric coordinator in the Department of English.
  • Vicenti Carpio is a citizen of the Jicarilla Apache Nation and of Laguna and Isleta Pueblo heritage. Current projects explore institutional intersections of Japanese Internment and American Indian urban relocation policy.
  • Melissa Nelson, professor of Indigenous sustainability, researches biocultural heritage and environmental justice, intercultural solidarity, and the renewal and celebration of community health and cultural arts.
  • Krystal Tsosie (DinĂ©/Navajo Nation), PhD, MPH, MA is an Indigenous geneticist-bioethicist at Arizona State University. Research: ethical engagement with Indigenous communities in precision health and genomic medicine.
  • Welch specializes in qualitative methods, political economy, global social change, social theory, Indigenous studies, world-systems analysis, rural sociology, class inequality, racism, culture, time.