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 K. Nelson (Anishinaabe) is a Global Futures Professor of Indigenous Conservation & Sustainability at Arizona State University and Professor Emerita of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University.
  • Krystal Tsosie (DinĂ©/Navajo Nation), PhD, MPH, MA is a geneticist and ethicist who builds data systems rooted in AI/machine learning for equity, precision medicine, and biodiversity
  • Welch specializes in qualitative methods, political economy, global social change, social theory, Indigenous studies, world-systems analysis, rural sociology, class inequality, racism, culture, time.