About

I am a comparative and critical ethnic studies scholar interested in the intersections between Ethnic Studies, cultural geography, and Indigenous studies. My research focuses on issues of race, space, art, and Indigenous geographies.

SCHOLAR, AUTHOR, & SPEAKER

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About my books

My book,Native Space: Geographic Strategies to Unsettle Settler Colonialism (OSU Press) illustrates the ways that Native people in North America sustain and create indigenous geographies in settler colonial nations.

While I finish several article and book chapter projects, I have begun early work on new books about race and space, and about Indigenous oceans.

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My Work

I also write on pedagogy, contemporary media, college cultural centers, and popular culture. In addition to academic writing, I have been, and am again currently, a Public Voices fellow for The OpEd Project. I completed an inaugural fellowship with The Natural History Museum.

My writings appear in the Journal of Geography, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Cartographica, Mobilities, Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, Native American & Indigenous Studies (forthcoming), Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, Urban Geography, Diversity in Disney Films (MacFarland), AAG Review of Books, Teaching Race in the 21st Century (Palgrave/Springer), Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Nexus: Complicating Community and Centering the Self (Cognella), and Oregon Humanities. See my publications here

I am currently working on chapters about climate change and philosophy, on the application of pedagogical insights from the late scholar bell hooks, and an article about a lesser-known 1970s Chicano-Indigenous education project.

Experience

Current
Associate Dean, Humanities & Fine Arts, UC Santa Barbara|
Associate Professor, History of Art & Architecture, UC Santa Barbara
Editor, Ethnic Studies Review
Public Voices fellow, The OpEd Project (2026-27)

Previous
Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, Oregon State University (OSU)
Director, Difference, Power, & Oppression program (OSU)
Chair, OSU Press Editorial Board
Fellow, The Natural History Museum
Public Voices fellow, The OpEd Project (2020-2021)
Advisor, Benton County Historical Society
Advisory Board, Environmental Arts & Humanities, OSU

Education

PhD & MA, Ethnic Studies — UC San Diego
MA, American Indian Studies — UCLA
BA, Ethnic Studies & Philosophy — Sonoma State University

Get in touch

I am available for speaking engagements, collaborative projects, research, and interviews.

Looking forward to hearing from you.