Affiliated Faculty
AMHERST
Lisa Brooks (advisor) - on leave AY 2020-21
Specialties: literature, history, New England
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Kiara M. Vigil (advisor)
Specialties: cultural history, 19th and 20th centuries, cultural representations of and by Native people in the U.S.
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Edward Melillo
Specialties: history, traditional ecological knowledge, Pacific world
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Manuela Picq
Specialties: world politics, Latin America, extractivism, gender and sexualities
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HAMPSHIRE
Ashley Smith (advisor)
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Jennifer Hamilton - on leave AY 2020-21
Specialties: anthropology and legal studies; law, medicine, science, and technology; Native North America
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MOUNT HOLYOKE
Mary Renda (advisor)
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Lauret Savoy (advisor) - on leave AY 2020-21
Specialties: environmental history, narratives of race and place, North America
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SMITH
Christen Mucher (advisor)
Specialties: history, material culture, Ohio Valley
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UMASS AMHERST
Alice Nash (advisor)
Specialties: history, New England, teaching
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Paul Barten (advisor)
Specialties: northern forests, environmental history, traditional ecological knowledge
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Sonya Atalay (advisor)
Specialties: community-based participatory research methods, repatriation and protection of cultural heritage
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Kathleen Brown-Perez
Specialties: federal Indian law, criminal jurisdiction in Indian Country, tribal sovereignty, federal acknowledgement of tribes, identity
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Seth Cable
Specialties: linguistics, language documentation, Alaska
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Donal Carbaugh (emeritus)
Specialties: communication of Indigenous culture/ecology, Blackfeet/Pikuni (Montana)
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Jean Forward (emerita)
Specialties: education, applied anthropology/activism
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Laura Furlan
Specialties: Indigenous literatures of the U.S., place/space in literature, autobiography/creative nonfiction
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Samuel Redman
Specialties: history, history of museums, U.S.
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Peggy Speas (emerita)
Specialties: Indigenous languages of North America, language revitalization, Navajo
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Stan Stevens
Specialties: political ecology of conservation, rights-based conservation, traditional ecological knowledge and socioeconomic systems
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Ron Welburn (emeritus)
Specialties: literature, ethnohistory (eastern North America), Native jazz
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