Faculty

Randall Akee, PhD
Chair, American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program and Associate Professor of Public Policy, UCLA

Stephanie Russo Carroll, DrPH, MPH
AHTNA/NATIVE VILLAGE OF KLUTI-KAHH
Assistant Professor, Public Health Policy and Management, MEZCOPH
Assistant Research Professor, Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy
Co-Founder, US Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network
Assistant Director, CIEHR
Associate Director, NNI

Stephen Cornell, PhD
Faculty Chair and Co-Founder of the Native Nations Institute
Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development
Faculty Affiliate, James E. Rogers College of Law
Emeritus Director of the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy
Emeritus Professor of Sociology

Dominique David-Chavez, PhD
ARAWAK TAÍNO
Post-Doctoral Indigenous Data Sovereignty Fellow, Native Nations Institute

Cheryl Ellenwood, MA
NEZ PERCE
Indigenous Data Sovereignty Doctoral Scholar, Native Nations Institute

Matthew L.M. Fletcher
GRAND TRAVERSE BAND
Professor of Law, and Director of the Indigenous Law and Policy Center. Michigan State University, College of Law

Torivio A. Fodder, JD, SJD
TAOS PUEBLO
Indigenous Governance Program Manager, Native Nations Institute
Danielle Hiraldo, MPA, PhD
LUMBEE TRIBE OF NORTH CAROLINA
Senior Researcher and Tribal Outreach Specialist, Native Nations Institute

Seanna Howard
Clinician, Professor of Practice, James E. Rogers College of Law, Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program

Miriam Jorgensen, PhD
Research Director, Native Nations Institute, University of Arizona
Research Director, Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, Harvard University

Dr. Robert Joseph, LLB, LLM, PhD Waikato
IWI: TAINUI, TUWHARETOA, KAHUNGUNU, RANGITANE, NGAI TAHU
Senior Lecturer, Research Centre Director MIG (Law), University of Waikato

Joseph P. Kalt, PhD
Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy (emeritus), Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government

Del Laverdure
CROW NATION
Attorney. Former Acting Assistant Secretary, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Interior

Celeste Napier, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and
Director, Center for Compulsive Behavior and Addiction, Rush University

Marjolaine Olwell
SJD Candidate, Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy Program, University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law


Daryle Rigney
NGARRINDJERI
Professor and Director Indigenous Nations and Collaborative Futures Research, Jumbunna Institute, University of Technology Syndey

Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear
NORTHERN CHEYENNE NATION
Assistant Professor of Sociology and American Indian Studies, University of California

Mark Selman, PhD
Director of the Executive MBA Cohort for Aboriginal Business and Leadership, Simon Fraser University

Chellie Spiller
HAPŪ MATAWHAITI IWITEA, NGĀTI KAHUNGUNU KI WAIROA
Professor, University of Waikato Management School



Alison Vivian, SJD
Senior Researcher, Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research, University of Technology Sydney

Robert Williams, Jr., JD
LUMBEE TRIBE OF NORTH CAROLINA
Regents' Professor and E. Thomas Sullivan Professor of Law, James E. Rogers College of Law
Faculty Co-Chair, Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program, University of Arizona
"...I've actually had a shift, like a paradigm shift, which is [an] incredible thing to happen to somebody that's been working for over 20 years in Indian Country..."
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