Faculty

Michael Ing (Kanaka Hawai'i)

Director, Native American and Indigenous Studies Program
Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Pacific, Hawai'i philosophy
ming@iu.edu

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Liza Black (Cherokee Nation) 

Associate Professor, Department of History
North America, Native Americans in film, Murdered and Mission Indigenous Women
blackli@iu.edu

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Brian Burkhart (Cherokee Nation)

Associate Professor, Department of American Studies
North America, Native American philosophy

Brian Burkhart's bio coming soon

David Nichols

Professor and Carmony Chair, Department of History
North America, Native American history
davinich@iu.edu

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Andrea Sullivan-Clarke (Muscogee)

Associate Professor, Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine
North America, Native American philosophy
sulliand@iu.edu

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Nicky Belle

Associate Director, Office of Student Life
nbelle@iu.edu

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Mitchell Berg

Clinical Assistant Professor, Paul H O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Tribal Community and Economic Development, Tribal Entrepreneurialism
bergmi@iu.edu

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Eduardo Brondizio

Distinguished Professor, Department of Anthropology
Amazonian and global studies, Environmental Anthropology
ebrondiz@iu.edu

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Heather Calloway (Cherokee Nation)

Executive Director of University Collections, Associate Research Scientist, University Collections North America, Fraternal and Religious Organizations
hkc@iu.edu

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Carly Camplain (Comanche, not tribally affiliated)

Assistant Professor, Applied Health Sciences
Indigenous Health, Health and Healthcare while Incarcerated
ccampla@iu.edu

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Ricky Camplain (Comanche, not tribally affiliated)

Assistant Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Indigenous Health, Health and Healthcare while Incarcerated
rcampla@iu.edu

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Shobhana L. Chelliah

Professor, Department of Linguistics
South Asia, Languages and cultures of low-resourced languages of South Asia
schellia@iu.edu

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nicholae cline (Coharie)

Associate Librarian, Libraries
Decolonial thought, de/anticolonial and abolitionist university studies
nacline@iu.edu

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Ryan N. Comfort (KBIC Ojibwe)

Assistant Professor, Journalism Unit - The Media School
Indigenous Environmental Media
rcomfort@iu.edu

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Serafín Coronel-Molina (Huanca Quechua)

Professor of Literacy, Culture and Language Education, and International and Comparative Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
South America, the Quechua languages, Andean sociolinguistics, Indigenous language revitalization
scoronel@iu.edu

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Richard Henne-Ochoa

Academic Specialist, College of Arts & Sciences
Director, Institute for Indigenous Knowledge
Linguistic anthropology, language documentation and reclamation, verbal art, and education
rhenne@iu.edu

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Susan Lepselter

Associate Professor, American Studies; Associate Professor, Anthropology; Director of Undergraduate Studies
Indigenous film and literature
slepselt@indiana.edu

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Brandie Macdonald (Chickasaw Nation, citizen, Choctaw Nation, descendant)

Executive Director, IU Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Indigenous Stewardship in Collections, Decolonial Praxis, Museum Studies, Anti-Colonial and Decolonial Museums
branmacd@iu.edu

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Anne Pyburn

Provost Professor, Department of Anthropology
Mesoamerica, Indigenous rights of the Q’eq’chi, Yukatek, and Mopan peoples in Belize, deconstruction of the colonial heritage of archaeology
apyburn@iu.edu

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Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa

Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies and Latino Studies Program
Andean Indigeneities and Blackness; Gender, Sexuality, and Aesthetics
olgrodri@iu.edu

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David Stringer

Associate Professor, Department of Second Language Studies
Language reclamation, biocultural diversity conservation
ds6@iu.edu

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Daniel Suslak

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Mesoamerica, Mixe-Zoquean languages, language revitalization
dsuslak@iu.edu

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Jayne-Leigh Thomas

Director, Office of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
Repatriation, NAGPRA
thomajay@iu.edu

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Eveline Washul

Assistant Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
Tibet, anthropology and history of Tibetan place making
ewashul@iu.edu

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