Directory  

Faculty

Chair and Associate Professor
SBS West Building 70, Room 100
928-523-6624
Lomayumtewa.Ishii@nau.edu

Lomayumtewa Ishii (Hopi), PhD, (BS, MS, PhD, Northern Arizona University - 2001) and Chair of the Applied Indigenous Studies Department. He received his appointment in the Applied Indigenous Studies Department at Northern Arizona University in 2004 and specializes in Native American history and historiography, the American West, and borderlands.

 

Assistant Professor
SBS West Building 70, Room 216
928-523-6219
Karen.Jarratt-Snider@nau.edu 

Karen Jarratt-Snider (Mississippi Choctaw), PhD, (BS, MPA, PhD, Northern Arizona University - 2006). She received her appointment in the Applied Indigenous Studies Department at Northern Arizona University in 2008 and specializes in indigenous environmental justice, forestry policy and indigenous people, tribal community participatory research models, federalism-American Indian intergovernmental relations, tribal administration, federal Indian policy and law, and indigenous peoples rights in international law and policy. 

  

Assistant Professor
Health Sciences Building 66, Room 231A
928-523-6741
Priscilla.Sanderson@nau.edu 

Priscilla R. Sanderson (Navajo), PhD, (BA, Southwestern College; MS, Oklahoma State University, PhD, University of Arizona-2005, Postdoctoral Fellow, Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona).  She is a Co-Principal Investigator of an National Institute of Health, National Institute on Minority and Health Disparities P20 grant entitled, Center for American Indian Resilience.  She has been at Northern Arizona since 2005, with specialization in public health, disability rehabilitation, vocational rehabilitation, rehabilitation counseling, and cancer prevention.  Her research is in colorectal cancer screening knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs (KAB), cancer prevention, and resilience among American Indians.

  

Professor
SBS West Building 70, Room 212
928-523-8788
Octaviana.Trujillo@nau.edu 

Octaviana Trujillo (Yaqui), PhD, (BA, MA, PhD, Arizona State University - 1991).  Since 2002, she has been part of the Northern Arizona University faculty and specializes in native language policy and literacy development, and American Indian education.

Affiliated Faculty

 

Professor, English
Babbitt Academic Annex, Room 319
928-523-9237
Jeffery.Berglund@nau.edu 

Jeffery Berglund, PhD, (BA, Creighton University; MA, Washington University; PhD, Ohio State University - 1996). He has been with Northern Arizona University since 1999 and specializes in Native American literature and American literature. 

 

Chair and Professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice Department
SBS Raul H. Castro Building 65
928-523-6512
Marianne.Nielsen@nau.edu 

Marianne O. Nielsen, PhD, (BA, University of Calgary; MA, PhD University of Alberta - 1993). She has worked at Northern Arizona University since 1993.

 

Professor, Economics, College of Business
W.A. Franke College of Business Building 81, Room 304
928-523-7396
Dean.Smith@nau.edu

Dean Howard Smith (Mohawk), PhD, (BS, Clemson University; MS, Oklahoma State University; PhD, Texas A&M University - 1989). Since 1989 he has been part of faculty at Northern Arizona University and teaches under the W.A. Franke College of Business. He specializes in economics, Native American economic development, spatial economics, mathematical economics, public economics, environmental economics, pricing strategies, and energy policy.

 

Professor, Anthropology
Anthropology Building 98D
928-523-9506
Michael.Vasquez@nau.edu

Michael Vasquez, PhD, (BA University of California- Berkeley; MA, San Francisco State University; MS, PhD, University of California-Davis - 1989). He has been at Northern Arizona University since 1989 with specializations in applied anthropology; indigenous agriculture; cultural ecology; and rural and agricultural development in North and Central America, and the U.S. Southwest.

Traditional Knowledge Scholars

 

Elder
SBS West Building 70, Room 9E
928-523-5929
Bob.Lomadafkie@nau.edu 

Bob Lomadafkie (Hopi), (BS, Northern Arizona University - 1972). He is a public speaker, teacher, jeweler, and designer. He also is an advocate for Hopi art and community service and has worked for Northern Arizona University since 2006.

  

Elder
SBS West Building 70, Room 9C
928-523-5927
Marina.Vasquez@nau.edu

Marina Xoc Castillo de Vasquez  (Mayan), (BA, Northern Arizona University - 1999). She has worked with Northern Arizona University since 2006 and is dedicated to bilingual-multicultural education in the local schools and community service programs. She is also a master basket maker specializing in traditional pine needle baskets.

Staff

 

Administrative Associate
SBS West Building 70, Room 100A
928-523-2212
Beverley.Suetopka-Alex@nau.edu

Beverley Suetopka-Alex (Hopi) She has been employed with Northern Arizona University since 1997. Beverley is responsible for the daily operations related to Applied Indigenous Studies department. She assists the Chair and faculty with class scheduling, event-planning, finances, human resources and recruitment.