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Megan Alvarado-Saggese, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Native American & Indigenous Studies

Areas of expertise:

  • Latin American Indigenous studies
  • Latinx and Indigenous intersectionality;
  • Latin American and Indigenous visual cultures
  • Film and sound studies

Education:

  • Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2022
  • M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 2014
  • MTS, Harvard Divinity School, 2011
  • B.A., Brown University, 2006

Contact:

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Majel Boxer, Ph.D.
Chair & Associate Professor of Native American & Indigenous Studies

Sisseton and Wahpeton Dakota, Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Reservation

Expertise

  • 19th and 20th century Native American history
  • Indigenous Women’s history
  • Native American oral and written traditions
  • Native American religions and spirituality
  • History of tribal museums and indigenous cultural centers
  • Fort Lewis Indian school
  • Fort Lewis College Tuition Waiver
  • Racial discourse and public spaces

Education

  • Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2008
  • M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 2004
  • B.A., Washington State University, 2002

Contact:

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Deanne Grant, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology and Native American & Indigenous Studies
Affiliated Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies

Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma

Areas of Expertise:

  • Indigenous feminisms
  • Women of color feminisms
  • Indigenous sexual decolonization

Education:

  • Ph.D. Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2019
  • Certificate in College Teaching, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 2018
  • M.A. Indigenous Governance, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 2012
  • M.A. International Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 2007
  • B.A. International Studies, ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ, 2004

Contact:

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Ryan Rhadigan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Native American & Indigenous Studies

Areas of expertise:

  • Language, land, and epistemology
  • Social and critical theory
  • Critical Indigenous theory
  • Indigenous archives
  • Indigenous science and technology studies

Education:

  • Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2022
  • M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 2015
  • M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 2013
  • B.A., Kalamazoo College, 2006

Contact:

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Emeritus faculty

Dr. Richard M. Wheelock
Associate Professor Emeritus
Oneida of Wisconsin 
Email: wheelock_r@fortlewis.edu