CURRICULUM VITAE
Jay Truman JohnsonDepartment of Geography & Atmospheric Science
University of Kansas1475 Jayhawk Blvd.
Lawrence, KS 66045-7613Office Phone: +1.785.864.5547
E-mail: [email protected]
EDUCATION
PhD, Geography, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, December, 2003 Comprehensive Examination Areas, May, 2001
Cultural GeographySocial Geography
DISSERTATION: “Biculturalism, Resource Management and Indigenous Self-determination”
GRADUATE CERTIFICATE, International Cultural Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, May, 2000 (December, 1998-May, 2000)Research Topic: “Biculturalism: A Thirdspace of Resistance”
MSW, University of Kansas, May, 1991 (August 1988-May, 1991)Major: Medical Social Work
BA, University of Kansas, January, 1987 (August 1983-January 1987)Major: Russian and Eastern European HistoryMinor: American History
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
July, 2013 – present Associate Professor of Geography; Adjunct Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies; Associate Chair of Geography & Atmospheric Science (August, 2015-present); Director - Center for Indigenous Research, Science, and Technology at the Institute for Policy & Social Research, University of Kansas (August, 2012-present)
August, 2008 – June, 2013 Assistant Professor of Geography; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies
May, 2006 – May, 2012 Adjunct Senior Fellow – Department of Geography, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Jan., 2006 – Aug., 2008 Assistant Professor and Co-Coordinator of the Indigenous Studies PhD Track, Department of Anthropology and Geography; Affiliated Faculty, Native American Studies; Co-Director, Human Rights And Human Diversity Initiative, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Sept., 2004 – Nov., 2005 Lecturer in Human Geography (Equivalent to Assistant Professor in the North American System) Department of Geography, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Aug., 1998 – May, 2003 Graduate Teaching Assistant and Instructor – Department of Geography, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
BOOKS & REPORTSLarsen, Soren C. and Jay T. Johnson. 2017. Being together in place: Indigenous coexistence in
a more-than-human world. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Johnson, Jay T., Renee Pualani Louis, and Andrew Kliskey. 2014. Weaving Indigenous and Sustainability Sciences: Diversifying our Methods. Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation. pp. 116.
Johnson, Jay T. and Soren C. Larsen, eds. 2013. A Deeper Sense of Place: Stories and Journeys of Indigenous-Academic Collaboration. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press. pp. 243.
PUBLICATIONS – REFEREED (21)Larsen, Soren C. and Jay T. Johnson. 2016. The agency of place: toward a more-than-human
geographical self. Geohumanities Journal. doi:10.1080/2373566X.2016.1157003.
Johnson, Jay T. and Clare Madge. 2016. Empowering Methodologies: Feminist and Indigenous Approaches. In Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography, edited by I. Hay. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 76-94.
Johnson, Jay T., Richard Howitt, Gregory Cajete, Fikret Berkes, Renee Pualani Louis, and Andrew Kliskey. 2016. Weaving Indigenous and Sustainability Sciences to Diversify our Methods. Sustainability Science 11 (1): 1-11 doi:10.1007/s11625-015-0349-x
Whyte, Kyle Powys, Brewer, Joseph P., Johnson, Jay T. 2016. Weaving Indigenous Science, Protocols and Sustainability Science. Sustainability Science 11 (1): 25-32. doi: 10.1007/s11625-015-0296-6.
Coombes, Brad, Jay T. Johnson, Richard Howitt. 2014. Indigenous Geographies III: Methodological innovation and the unsettling of participatory research. Progress in Human Geography 38 (6): 845-854, first published on February 10, 2014 doi:10.1177/0309132513514723
Johnson, Jay T. and Soren C. Larsen. 2013. Introduction: A deeper sense of place. In A Deeper Sense of Place: Stories and Journeys of Indigenous-Academic Collaboration, edited by J. Johnson and S. Larsen. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press p. 7-18.
Johnson, Jay T. 2013. Kaitiakitanga: telling the stories of Māori self-determination in resource management. In A Deeper Sense of Place: Stories and Journeys of Indigenous-Academic Collaboration, edited by J. Johnson and S. Larsen. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press p. 127-138.
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Johnson, Jay T. 2013. Dancing into place: the role of the powwow within urban Indigenous communities. In Indigenous in the city: contemporary identities and cultural innovation, edited by E. Peters and C. Anderson. Vancouver: UBC Press p. 316-323.
Coombes, Brad, Jay T. Johnson, Richard Howitt. 2013. Indigenous geographies II: the aspirational spaces in postcolonial politics – reconciliation, belonging and social provision. Progress in Human Geography 37 (5): 691-700.
Johnson, Jay T. 2012. Place-based learning and knowing: A critical pedagogy grounded in Indigeneity. GeoJournal 77 (6): 829-836.
Larsen, Soren C. and Jay T. Johnson. 2012. In between worlds: place, experience, and research in Indigenous geography. Journal of Cultural Geography 29 (1): 1-15.
Larsen, Soren C. and Jay T. Johnson. 2012. Towards an "open" sense of place: Geography and the question of being. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 102 (3): 632-646.
Coombes, Brad, Jay T. Johnson and Richard Howitt. 2012. Indigenous Geographies I: Mere resource conflicts? The complexity in Indigenous land and environmental claims. Progress in Human Geography 36 (6): 810-821.
Johnson, Jay T. and Michael Yellow Bird. 2011. Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Survival. In Handbook on International Social Work: Human Rights, Development, and the Global Profession, edited by L. Healy and R. Link. Oxford: Oxford University Press p. 208-213.
Coombes, Brad, Nicole Gombay, Jay T. Johnson and Wendy S. Shaw. 2011. The challenges of and from Indigenous Geographies: Implications for openly transcultural research. In The Companion to Social Geography, edited by R. Panelli. Oxford: Blackwell p. 472-489.
Johnson, Jay T. 2010. Indigeneity’s challenges to the settler-state: decentering the ‘imperial binary’. In Making Space: Settler-colonial perspectives on land, place and identity, edited by T. B. Mar and P. Edmonds. Oxford: Palgrave Macmillan UK. P. 273-294.
Johnson, Jay T. 2008. Kitchen Table Discourse: negotiating the ‘Tricky Ground’ of Indigenous research. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 32 (3): 127-137.
Johnson, Jay T. 2008. Indigeneity’s challenges to the white settler-state: creating a thirdspace for dynamic citizenship. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 33 (1): 29-52.
Johnson, Jay T., and Brian Murton. 2007. Re/placing Native Science: Indigenous voices in contemporary constructions of nature. Geographical Research 45 (2):121-129.
Johnson, Jay T., Renee Pualani Louis, and Albertus Hadi Pramono. 2006. Facing the Future: Encouraging Cartographic Literacies in Indigenous Communities. ACME: An International E-Journal of Critical Geography 4 (1): 80-98.
Johnson, Jay T. 2003. Indigenous Resource Management and Treaty Partnership: Aotearoa/New Zealand and Nunavut Territory, Canada. In Windows on a Changing World: NZGS Conference 2003, edited by J. Gao, R. Le Heron and J. Logie. Auckland: New Zealand Geographical Society, 101-106.
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PUBLICATIONS – NON-REFEREED (8)Nagel, Joane, Jay T. Johnson and Thomas D. Hall. 2015. Indigenous Peoples. In The Blackwell
Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism, edited by J. Stone, D. Rutledge, P. Rizova, and A. D. Smith. New York: Wiley-Blackwell
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Johnson, Jay T. 2012. Review 4 – spaces between us: queer settler colonialism and indigenous decolonization by Scott Lauria Morgensen. Gender, Place & Culture 19 (5): 693-695.
Louis, Renee Pualani, Jay T. Johnson and Albertus Hadi Pramono. 2012. Editorial Introduction: Indigenous Cartographies and Counter-mapping. Cartographica 47 (2): 77-79.
The Hi‘iaka Working Group. 2011. Indigenous Knowledges Driving Technological Innovation, aapi nexus 9 (1): 1-9.
Johnson, Jay T. 2010. Indigeneity. In Encyclopedia of Geography, edited by B. Warf. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications p. 1554-1556.
Johnson, Jay T. 2009. Review of Indigenous Peoples: Self-determination, Knowledge, Indigeneity by Henry Minde, Harald Gaski, Svein Jentoft, Georges Midré. The Geographical Journal 175 (3): 238-9.
Johnson, Jay T., Garth Cant, Richard Howitt, and Evelyn Peters. 2007. Creating anti-colonial geographies: Embracing Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledges and Rights. Geographical Research 45 (2):117-120 (editorial introduction for a special edition).
Johnson, Jay T. 2005. Review of Indigenous Peoples: Resource Management and Global Rights by Jentoft, Svein, H. Minde and R. Nilsen. New Zealand Geographer 61 (2):176-77.
EDITOR – JOURNAL SPECIAL EDITIONS
Johnson, Jay T., Renee Pualani Louis and Andrew Kliskey. 2016. Weaving Indigenous and Sustainability Sciences to Diversify our Methods. Sustainability Science.
Louis, Renee Pualani, Jay T. Johnson and Albertus Hadi Pramono. 2012 Indigenous Cartographies and Counter-mapping. Cartographica 47 (2).
Larsen, Soren C. and Jay T. Johnson. 2012. In between worlds: place, experience, and research in Indigenous geography. Journal of Cultural Geography 29 (1).
Johnson, Jay T., Garth Cant, Richard Howitt, and Evelyn Peters. 2007. Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledges and Rights. Geographical Research 45 (2).
PUBLICATIONS – UNDER REVIEW
MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS
Johnson, Jay T., Joseph P. Brewer and Kyle Powys Whyte. Reciprocal Guardianship.
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Louis, Renee Pualani, Elizabeth Medicine Crow, Kyle Wark, and Jay T. Johnson. Collectively harnessing Indigenous research principles, protocols, and practices (CHIRP3). ACME: An International E-Journal of Critical Geography
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS (33)“Learning from place: Lessons of hospitality and reciprocity at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds,
Aotearoa/New Zealand,” American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, CA, 2016
“Facilitating Indigenous Research, Science, and Technology: the story of an emerging network,” Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Conference, Tucson, AZ, 2014
“Negotiating the Indigenous and Sustainability Sciences Divide,” Association of American Geographers Conference, Tampa, FL, 2014
“Negotiating the Indigenous and Sustainability Sciences Divide,” International Geographical Union Regional Conference, Kyoto, Japan, and Hokusei-Gakuen University, Sapporo, Japan, 2013
“Learning from Indigenous science: I-Kiribati awareness, knowledge, and adaptation to environmental change” with Gene Rankey, Lara O’Brien, Kambati Uriam, and Johannes Feddema, Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Los Angeles, CA, 2013
“Thirdspace: the lived spaces of Indigenous self-determination,” Association of American Geographers annual meeting, New York, NY, 2012
“Storied Landscapes: Knowing the world through place,” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association annual meeting, Sacramento, CA, 2011
“Being-in-place together: Is there room for the settler in anarcho-indigenism?” Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Seattle, WA, 2011
“Defining Traditional Ecological Knowledges,” Bridging Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Interdisciplinary Research in the Arctic, NSF funded IGERT conference, Juneau, AK, 2011
“Dancing into place: the role of the pow-wow within urban Indigenous communities,” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association annual meeting, Tucson, AZ, 2010
“Kitchen Table Discourse: developing research relationships by identifying ‘common ground’,” Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Washington, DC, 2010
“Dancing into place: the role of the pow-wow within urban Indigenous communities,” Indigenous Urbanization in International Perspective Conference, Saskatoon, Canada, 2009
“Indigenous Resource Management and Treaty Partnership: Aotearoa/New Zealand and Nunavut Territory, Canada,” Canadian Association of Geographers, Ottawa, Canada, 2009
“Is Saying Sorry Enough? The Search for Truth and Reconciliation” Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, 2009
“Storied Landscapes: Place-based learning and knowing,” Language in Landscape Conference, Navajo Reservation, 2008
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“Autochthony, Indigeneity and Place,” Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, 2008
“Place-based learning and knowing: Critical pedagogies grounded in Indigeneity,” International Geographical Union Commission on Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledges and Rights Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, 2007
“Place-based learning and knowing: Critical pedagogies anchored in Indigeneity,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; San Francisco, CA, 2007
“Facing Future: Encouraging Cartographic Literacy in Indigenous Communities,” Association of American Geographers Joint Annual Meeting of the Great-Plains, Rocky Mountains and West Lakes Divisions; Lincoln, NE, 2006
“Waitangi’s Contested Landscape,” International Geographical Union Conference; Brisbane, Australia, 2006
“‘A map of tribal areas’: Mapping Pākehā authority onto Māori communities,” Indigenous Cartography and Representational Politics Conference; Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 2006
“Re/placing Native science: Indigenous voices in contemporary constructions of nature,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Chicago, IL, 2006
“Waitangi: A contested landscape,” Canterbury Branch of the New Zealand Geographical Society; Christchurch, New Zealand, 2005
“Facing Future: Encouraging Cartographic Literacies in Indigenous Communities,” The Indigenous Knowledges Conference - Reconciling Academic Priorities with Indigenous Realities; Wellington, New Zealand, 2005
“Waitangi: A contested landscape,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Denver, CO, 2005
“Indigeneity’s challenges to the white settler-state: creating a space for ‘dynamic citizenship’,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Philadelphia, PA, 2004
“Indigenous Resource Management and Treaty Partnership: Aotearoa and Nunavut, Canada” New Zealand Geographical Society 22nd Conference; Auckland, New Zealand, 2003
“Colonialism and Place in Settler Colonies: Indigenous Agency and the Construction of Nature in the Contact Zone,” Joint paper with Brian Murton, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; New Orleans, LA, 2003
“Biculturalism, Resource Management and Māori Self-determination,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Los Angles, CA, 2002
“The Makah, the Environmentalist and the Whale: A Media Trial by Space,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; New York, NY, 2001
“The Nunavut Act: A Geography of Indigenous Self-Determination,” American Indian Studies Conference; Boise, ID, 2000
PAPER SESSIONS (3)Discussant: “The Agency of Place,” American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, CA,
2016Discussant: “Critical Issues in Indigenous Geography,” Association of American Geographers,
Washington, DC, 2010
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Discussant: “Places Postcolonialism Forgot: New Examinations of Center & Periphery,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Las Vegas, NV, 2009
Discussant: “Indigenous Peoples: Place and Methodology,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Philadelphia, PA, 2004
SCHOLARLY PANELS (15)“Arctic Horizons 2025: NSF forum on the Future of Arctic Social Research,” American
Association of Geographers, San Francisco, CA, 2016“Teaching Vine Deloria, Jr.” 8th Annual Vine Deloria, Jr. Indigenous Studies Symposium;
Northwest Indian College, Lummi, WA, 2013“Geographies of Hope Symposium” Association of American Geographers annual meeting; Los
Angeles, CA, 2013“Creative Placemaking” a panel discussion with the Chair of the National Endowment for the
Arts, Rocco Landesman, at the Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, 2012“Author meets interlocutors: spaces between us: queer settler colonialism and indigenous
decolonization by Scott Lauria Morgensen” Association of American Geographers annual meeting; New York, NY, 2012
“A Deeper Sense of Place: New Geographies of Indigenous-Academic Collaboration,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Washington, DC, 2010
“Indigenous Methodologies: Teaching Indigenous Perspectives in the Academy,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Las Vegas, NV, 2009
“Indigenous Geography and Education: Negotiating pedagogy in the classroom and the discipline,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Boston, MA, 2008
“The Colonial Present V: Post-Coloniality and Indigenous Geography,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Boston, MA, 2008
“New Stories for Old Places,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Boston, MA, 2008
“Geography and Indigenous Peoples: New Directions,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; San Francisco, CA, 2007
“Strengthening Collaborations: the role of academics and theory in indigenous mapping projects” Indigenous Cartography and Representational Politics Conference; Cornell University, New York, 2006
“Indigenous Identity Politics and Technoscience,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Philadelphia, PA, 2004
“Doing Indigenous Geography: Approaches to Indigenous Methods and Research,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Philadelphia, PA, 2004
“Posting Up: Positioning Research Methodology in Postcolonial Contexts,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Los Angeles, CA, 2002
“The State of Indigenous Peoples’ Geography,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; New York, NY, 2001
INVITED SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS (11)
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“The ethical and epistemological challenges to sharing qualitative data,” Qualitative Data Sharing and Use to Accelerate Synthesis for Conservation and Sustainability Science, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, Annapolis, MD 2017
“The Haskell/KU collaboration in STEM education,” with co-presenter Joe Brewer, The Tribal College STEM Summit, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 2016
“How can we Work Together on Climate Change,” Haskell Indian Nations University in collaboration with the US Department of Arts & Culture, Lawrence, KS 2016
“Place-based learning and knowing: a critical pedagogy grounded in indigeneity,” The Hall Center for the Humanities: Nature and Culture Seminar series, 2012
“Dancing into place: the role of the pow-wow within urban Indigenous communities,” Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 2010
“Indigenous Self-determination and Resource Management: Aotearoa/New Zealand and Nunavut Territory, Canada,” Lincoln University, Lincoln, New Zealand, 2010
“Storied Landscapes: place-based learning and knowing,” National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC, 2009
“Place-based learning and knowing: Critical pedagogies grounded in Indigeneity,” University of Missouri – Columbia, Department of Geography, 2007
“Re/placing Native Science: Indigenous Voices in Contemporary Constructions of Nature” seminar presentation for the Departments of Human Geography and Aboriginal Studies at Macquarie University; Sydney, Australia, 2006 and the Department of Geography at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2006.
“Bridging the Cultural Studies – Indigenous Studies divide: Can we find a place for critical theory in country?” International Cultural Studies Seminar Series, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, 2005
“Facing Future: Encouraging Cartographic Literacy,” Joint Plenary Presentation with Renee Pualani Louis at the International Forum on Indigenous Mapping; Vancouver, BC, 2004
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
A SHARED Future: Achieving Strength, Health, and Autonomy through Renewable Energy Developments for the Future. Canadian Institutes of Health Research. 2016-2021, CAN$2,000,000 Collaborator, PI, Heather Castleden, Queens University, awarded
WISE, Weaving Indigenous Science into Education, KS NSF EPSCoR, 2017-2022, $3,250,000 PI, co-PI: Melinda Crow, Haskell Indian Nations University, under review
MOONSTEMS: Mentoring Our Own Native STEM Scientists, NSF INCLUDES #1641353, pre-proposal, PI, co-PIs, Renee Pualani Louis and Joseph Brewer, KU; Melinda Crow, Haskell Indian Nations University, not invited
Integrating Native and Geoscience Education for a Sustainable Future, NSF Tribal College and University Program/Partnership to Advance Geoscience Education #1641311, 2016-2021, $1,650,000, co-PI, PI, Venida Chenault, Haskell Indian Nations University, co-PI: Joseph Brewer, KU; Melinda Crow, Haskell, declined
Doctoral Dissertation Research: Bridging Knowledge Systems to Improve Ecosystem Management along the Yukon River, Alaska, NSF #1504203, 2015-2016, $36,507, PI,
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co-PI: Victoria Walsey, University of Kansas, awardedWISE, Weaving Indigenous Science into Education, KS NSF EPSCoR, 2016-2021, $3,812,142
PI, co-PI: Melinda Crow, Haskell Indian Nations University, declinedFEW: Workshop on the Integration of Indigenous Science into Food, Energy and Water Systems
(InFEWSion), 2015-2016, $49,807 co-PI: PI: Andrew Kliskey, University of Idaho; co-PIs Lilian Alessa, University of Idaho; William Michener, University of New Mexico, declined
WIS2E, Weaving Indigenous and Sustainability Sciences in Education, KS NSF EPSCoR, 2015-2020, $3,300,000 PI, co-PI: Cody Marshall, Haskell Indian Nations University, declined
FIRST, Facilitating Indigenous Research, Science, and Technology, Office of Polar Programs, NSF #1417767, 2015-2020, $499,956, PI, co-PIs: Renee Pualani Louis, University of Kansas; Liz Medicine Crow, First Alaskans Institute; Mark Palmer, University of Missouri, awarded
CHIRP3, Collaboratively Harnessing Indigenous Research Principles, Protocols, and Practices, Office of Polar Programs, NSF #1436506, 2014-2016, $299,920, co-PI, PI: Renee Pualani Louis, University of Kansas; co-PI, Liz Medicine Crow, First Alaskans Institute, awarded
Being-together-in-place: A geohumanistic exploration of place-based politics in postcolonial settler-states, American Council of Learned Societies Collaborative Fellowship, 2014-2016, $140,000 PI, co-PI: Soren Larsen, University of Missouri, awarded (National Academies Highly Prestigious Awards in the Arts and Humanities)
Since Tenure_________________________________________________________WIS2DOM, Weaving Indigenous and Sustainability Sciences: Diversifying our Methods, Office
of Polar Programs, NSF #1233266, 2012-2013, $85,454, PI, co-PI’s: Renee Pualani Louis, University of Kansas; Andrew Kliskey, University of Alaska-Anchorage, awarded
Learning from Indigenous Science: Indigenous Perception and Adaptation to Environmental Change in Kiribati, The Commons at the University of Kansas, 2012-2013, $28,950, PI, co-PI’s: Gene Rankey, KU Geology; Kambati Uriam, University of South Pacific History; Michelle Mary, KU Geology PhD student; Lara O’Brien, KU Geography MA student, awarded
Indigenous Ecological Knowledges and Geographic Information Systems, Office of Polar Programs, NSF #1044906, 2010-12, (original award $59,733 to Oregon State University) grant sub-awarded to KU in 2011, $16,424, PI, Co-PI’s: Renee Pualani Louis, Hawai‘i Board of Geographic Names; Lilian Alessa, University of Alaska-Anchorage; Andrew Kliskey, University of Alaska-Anchorage, awarded
Mapping Progress in Indigenous Geographies, Hall Center Collaborative Research Seed Grant, 2011, $13,868, PI, Co-PI’s: Brad Coombes, University of Auckland; Richard Howitt, Macquarie University, not funded
Mediating Indigenous Geographies and Digital Technologies, NEH – Digital Humanities Initiative, 2009. Co-PI; PI, Mark Palmer, University of Missouri; other Co-PI, Laurel Smith, University of Oklahoma. $27,500, not funded
New Faculty General Research Fund, 2009, University of Kansas, $7,945, awarded Big XII Fellowship, 2007, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, $2,500, awarded
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AWARDS
Association of American Geographers Enhancing Diversity Award, 2014Since Tenure____________________________________________________
Nominated for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Byron A Alexander/John C. Wright Graduate Mentor Award, 2012
Certificate of Recognition for Contributions to Students, University of Nebraska – Lincoln Parents Association, 2007
H. J. Wiens Memorial Award, annual award given to one graduating M.A. or Ph.D. student based on the student’s scholarly record including thesis and other contributions to the department, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Department of Geography $200, 2004
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITES
CONFERENCE ORGANIZINGCo-Chair, University of Kansas Organizing Committee, NSF Inter-IGERT Conference on
Integrating Traditional and Interdisciplinary Science, Juneau, Alaska, March, 2011
PLENARY SESSIONS (3)Chair: “Indigenizing Spaces: Deep-Spatial Perspectives on Place,” keynote presentation by Dr.
Daniel Wildcat, Haskell Indian Nations University, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Boston, MA, 2008
Organizer: “Challenging the collaborative ideal: exploring the dilemmas in joint research with indigenous claimants to New Zealand's Waitangi Tribunal,” keynote presentation by Dr. Brad Coombes, University of Auckland, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; San Francisco, CA, 2007
Organizer: “Environmental Justice from a Native Perspective,” keynote presentation by Winona LaDuke, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Chicago, IL, 2006
PAPER SESSIONS (11)Organizer and Chair: “Urban Indigenous Realities,” Association of American Geographers
Annual Meeting, New York, NY, 2012Organizer and Chair: “Conservation Strategies and Resource Management on Indigenous
Lands,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New York, NY, 2012Organizer: “Indigenous Political Struggles and Self-determination,” Association of American
Geographers Annual Meeting, New York, NY, 2012Organizer: “Indigenous Place: Mapping and Naming,” Association of American Geographers
Annual Meeting, New York, NY, 2012Organizer: with Soren C. Larsen, “A Deeper Sense of Place: New Geographies of Indigenous –
Academic Collaboration,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 2010
Organizer: “Is Saying Sorry Enough? Confronting the Enduring Legacies of Settler-state Colonialisms’ Atrocities against Indigenous Populations,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, 2009.
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Organizer: with Soren C. Larsen “New Stories for Old Places: Theorizing the Philosophy and Politics of Place for Indigenous Geographies,” two paper sessions and one panel, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 2008.
Organizer: “Re/envisioning Place in a Spatial World: Indigenous Peoples and ‘Place-based struggle’,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2007
Organizer: “Exploring Indigenous Geographies,” Association of American Geographers Joint Annual Meeting of the Great-Plains, Rocky Mountains and West Lakes Divisions; Lincoln, NE, 2006
Organizer: “Colonialism and Place in Settler Colonies: Indigenous Agency and the Construction of Nature in the Contact Zone,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Chicago, IL, 2006
Organizer: “A ‘Politics of Place’: Exploring settler-state landscapes for evidence of Indigenous self-determination,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; Denver, CO, 2005
GRANT REVIEWERAustralian Research Council, Assessor, 2013-presentNational Science Foundation, Panelist, 2012-2017Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships Program, Panelist, 2009Marsden Fund of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 2007-2016
EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERJournal of Historical Geography 2006-2010Editor for Indigenous Peoples, Human Geography Journal 2009 – presentACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 2016 – present
MANUSCRIPT REVIEWACME: An International E-Journal of Critical GeographyCanadian Journal of Urban ResearchCartographicaEnvironmental HumanitiesEnvironmental ManagementGender, Place and CultureGenocide Studies and PreventionGEOFORUMGeografiska Annaler Series B: Human Geography Geographical ResearchGeoJournalHuman Geography JournalJournal of Cultural Geography New Zealand GeographerPolitical GeographySocial & Cultural GeographySociety & Natural ResourcesThe Geographical Journal
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COURSES ATTENDEDUniversity of California Humanities Research Institute – Seminar on Experimental Critical Theory, “Present Tense Empires, Race, Bio-Politics,” University of California – Irvine, 15 – 26 August, 2005
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, 2009 – present International Geographic Union, 2005 – present
Chair of the Commission on Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledges and Rights, 2006 – 2010Board member of the Commission on Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledges and Rights, 2010-present
Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science, 2001 – presentAssociation of American Geographers, 1999 – present
Specialty Group MembershipsIndigenous Peoples Ethics, Justice, and Human RightsCultural GeographySocialist and Critical Geography
Secretary of the Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group, 2011 – 2013Co-chair of the Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group, 2004 – 2008Member of the Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group Board of Directors, 2002-2004
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
UNDERGRADUATE COURSESGeography Capstone Course (Spring semester, 2015)Climate Change in Indigenous Communities, (Summer semester, 2014)Environmental Issues of the Wakarusa Wetlands (joint KU/Haskell course), (Spring semester,
2013 & 2014)Principles of Human Geography, Honors, University of Kansas, (Spring semesters, 2011 &
2012)Introduction to Cultural Geography, University of Kansas, (Fall semesters, 2010 - 2016)Exploring Oceania, University of Kansas, (2010, 2011, 2014)Principles of Human Geography, University of Kansas, (Spring semester, 2009)Intermediate Human Geography, University of Kansas, (Fall semesters, 2008 & 2009)Cultural Survival: Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, (Fall semester,
2006 - 2007)Introduction to Human Geography, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, (Fall semester, 2006)Cultural Geography, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, (Spring semesters, 2006 & 2007)Research Methods in Geography, University of Canterbury, (Spring semester, 2005)Māori and Indigenous Science and Technology, University of Canterbury, (Spring semesters,
2005 & 2006)Resource and Environmental Management, University of Canterbury, (Spring semester, 2005)Resources and Sustainability, University of Canterbury, (Spring semester, 2005)
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GRADUATE COURSESQualitative Research Methods (Spring semester, 2015)Cultural Geography Seminar, (Fall semester, 2012)Climate Change in Greenland and the Arctic, University of Kansas C-CHANGE IGERT
program (Spring semester, 2012)Indigenous Peoples of the World, University of Kansas, (Fall semesters, 2008, 2009, 2017)Seminar on Place and Nature, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, (Spring semester, 2008)Post-colonial Geographies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, (Spring semester, 2007) and
University of Kansas (Spring semesters, 2009, 2011, 2017)Comparative Studies in Indigenous Dispossession, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, (Spring
semester, 2006)Comparative Indigenous Nations Studies, University of Canterbury, (Fall semester, 2005)
THESIS SUPERVISION
CHIEF SUPERVISOR: PhDLois Stevens, Geography, University of Kansas, in progressPaulette Blanchard, Geography, University of Kansas, in progressKatrina McClure, Geography, University of Kansas, in progressJoshua Meisel, Geography, University of Kansas, in progressVictoria Walsey, Geography, University of Kansas, passed to candidacy, April, 2015Michael Bergervoet, Geography, University of Kansas, passed to candidacy, December, 2012Sean Pummill, Geography, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, passed to candidacy, May, 2008
(co-chair with David Wishart, UNL)Peters Omoregie, Geography, University of Kansas, August, 2007 – January, 2010William Price, Geography, University of Kansas, Extinct No More: Discourses on Tasmanian Aborigine Heritage, defended, December, 2013 (Assistant Professor, Central Connecticut State University)
COMMITTEE MEMBER: PhDSam Henkin, Geography, August 2014 - PresentAustin Charron, Geography, University of Kansas, passed to candidacy, May, 2014Michelle Mary, Geology, University of Kansas, passed to candidacy, October, 2012 David Fox, Geography, University of Kansas, passed to candidacy, December, 2011John Biersack, Geography, University of Kansas, passed to candidacy, October, 2011Megan Holroyd, Geography, University of Kansas, passed to candidacy, May, 2009Felicia Mitchell, Social Welfare, University of Kansas, “Water is Life: A Community-Based
Participatory Study of the Significance of Water and its Relationship to the Health and Well-Being of the Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas,”awarded August, 2016
Katie Haselwood Weichelt, Geography, University of Kansas, The historical geography of the paper industry in the Wisconsin River valley, awarded May, 2016
David Trimbach, Geography, University of Kansas, Citizenship, capital, and political power in Estonia, awarded May, 2016
Melissa Holder, Social Welfare, University of Kansas, “Exploring the Potential Relationship between Historical Trauma and Intimate Partner Violence among Indigenous Women,”
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awaded August, 2015Jessey Gilley, Geography, University of Kansas, Imagining, Practicing and Contesting Road
Development in Southern West Virginia, 1920s to 1970s, awarded December, 2014Blake Mayberry, Geography, University of Kansas, Bury Me on the Prairie: Nature and Culture
in the Postrural Midwest, awarded, December, 2014Stephanie Kozak, Geography, University of Kansas, From Section 8 to Starbucks: The effects of
gentrification on affordable housing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, awarded, May, 2014Heather Putnam, Geography, University of Kansas, The Political Ecology of Food Insecurity in
Smallholder Coffee Cooperatives in Northern Nicaragua, awarded, May, 2013Cort Miller, Geography, University of Kansas, Development on the Margins: Rwanda
Alternative Grassroots Economic Strategies, awarded, May, 2012William Brett Anderson, Geography, University of Kansas, Oklahoma and American Indian
Imagery, awarded December, 2011Shimantini Shome, Geography, University of Kansas, Assimilation of Somali Refugees and
Immigrants in the Kansas City Area, awarded August, 2011 (Assistant Professor, Concord University)
Sarah Hemmingsen, Geography, Australian National University, Indigenous traditional resource management: An Australia and New Zealand Comparison, awarded July, 2009 (employed by the Waitangi Tribunal, Wellington, New Zealand)
Ezra Zeitler, Geography, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Geographies of Indigenous-Based Team Name and Mascot use in American Secondary Schools, awarded with distinction May, 2008 (Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire)
Simon Lambert, Geography, Lincoln University, New Zealand, The expansion of sustainability through new economic space: Maori potatoes and cultural resilience, awarded April, 2008 (Associate Professor, University of Saskatchewan)
CHIEF SUPERVISOR: MASTERSKatie Grote, Geography, in progressShaylee Vandever, Geography, Woody Biomass as an Alternative Energy Source for Ft. Yukon,
Alaska, awarded, September, 2016Katrina McClure, Geography, Value, Access, and Use of Ethnobotanical Databases in
Ethnopharmacology: Methods, Ethical Research, and a Case Study on the Aurukun Ethnobiology Database Project, awarded, August, 2015
Peter Self, Geography, withdrew from the program, May, 2014Michael Dunaway, Geography, A New Harvest: Using solar power to refine biodiesel on Native
American reservations, awarded, August, 2014Joshua Meisel, Geography, Historical demographics, student origins, and recruitment at off-
reservation Indian boarding schools, 1900, awarded, August, 2014 (recipient of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Outstanding Thesis Award 2015)
Lara O’Brien, Geography, “Migrating with Dignity”: A study of the Kiribati-Australia Nursing Initiative (KANI), awarded December, 2013
Sonya Ortiz, Global Indigenous Nations Studies, non-thesis option, awarded December, 2013Victoria Walsey, Global Indigenous Nations Studies, Wildlife and Ecosystem Protection by
Tribal Nations: Using Indigenous Cultural Values and Traditional Knowledge in Management Policy, awarded May, 2012 (pursing PhD in Geography at KU, recipient of IGERT and KU Graduate Diversity Fellowships)
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Ashley Barnett, Geography, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, The Politics of Identity in the State of Israel: Nationalism, Archaeology, and the Israel Parks Association, awarded December, 2007 (pursuing PhD at UNL)
Franklin Ginn, Geography, University of Canterbury, Negotiating Nature: from wilderness to garden and back again, awarded with distinction, February, 2006 (Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Edinburgh)
COMMITTEE MEMBER: MASTERSGerhard Shipley, Indigenous Nations Studies, University of Kansas, in progressNatasha Myhal, Indigenous Nations Studies, University of Kansas, in progressErin Garity, Geography, An Ephemeral Experience of Place: Growing up in the Army,
University of Kansas, awarded May, 2014Valerie Switzler, Indigenous Studies, University of Kansas, That is All I Have to Say: Language
Shift, Attitudes, and Revitalization on the Warm Springs Reservation, awarded August, 2012
Andrew Norris, Geography, University of Kansas, Land Tenure Transformation of Peri-Urban Social Properties in San Luis Potosi, Mexico: The Case of Garita de Jalisco, awarded August, 2012
Brian Stephanoff, Indigenous Studies, University of Kansas, The Survival of Alaska’s Indigenous Peoples of the Lower Yukon River, awarded May, 2012
Raven Naramore, Indigenous Studies, University of Kansas, Decolonizing Diet: Looking to the Past for the Health of the Future, awarded May, 2012
Carlene Arnold, Global Indigenous Nations Studies, University of Kansas, The Legacy of Unjust and Illegal Treatment of Alaskan Natives During World War II and Its Place in Unangan History, awarded, December, 2011
Samantha Kirkley, Anthropology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, In small things unnoticed: an interpretation of 19th century ironstone maker's marks, awarded May, 2008
Amanda Anderson, Anthropology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, non-thesis option, awarded May, 2008
Katie Haselwood, Geography, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Childbirth in homesteading communities of the Great Plains, 1862-1920, awarded December, 2007 (pursing PhD at University of Kansas)
Sarah Kohtz, Geography, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, non-thesis option, awarded May, 2007
CHIEF SUPERVISOR: UNDERGRADUATEChamisa Edmo, Geography, University of Kansas, 2011-2012Cody Lown, Geography, University of Kansas, completed May, 2012Charles A Lippstreu, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Bolivia on New Terms: Evo Morales and
Indigenous Socialism, completed August, 2008, Honors awarded with distinction
SERVICE
SERVICE ON UNIVERSITY AND DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEESMember, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Committee on Sabbatical Leaves, University of
Kansas, 2016-19
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Associate Chair, Geography & Atmospheric Science Department, University of Kansas, 2015-present
Chair, African human geography faculty search, Geography Department, University of Kansas, 2013-2014
KU Co-Director, Haskell Environmental Research Studies Institute Pathways Program, A University of Kansas – Haskell Indian Nations University Collaboration, 2013-2014
Member, Global Indigenous curator search, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 2012Chair, Diversity Committee, Geography Department, University of Kansas, 2012-2014, 2016-
2017Member, Executive Committee, Geography Department, University of Kansas, 2012-2014Member, Graduate Affairs Committee, Geography Department, University of Kansas, 2012-
2014Web Czar, Geography Department, University of Kansas, 2011-2012Member, Executive Committee, Indigenous Studies Program, University of Kansas, 2011-2014Member, Indigenous Studies Task Force, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of
Kansas, 2010-2011Faculty Advisor, Geography Club, University of Kansas, 2010 - 2014Member, Faculty Affairs Committee, Geography Department, University of Kansas, 2010-11Member, Scholarship and Admissions Committee, Global Indigenous Nations Studies Program,
University of Kansas, 2009-10Faculty Advisor, Indigenous Nations Studies Student Association, University of Kansas, 2008-
2012Member, Geography Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Geography Department, University
of Kansas, 2008-10Co-Director (with Professor Brian Lepard), Human Rights and Human Diversity Initiative,
University of Nebraska – Lincoln, 2007-08Co-Coordinator (with Professor Carleen Sanchez), Indigenous Studies PhD Track, Department
of Anthropology and Geography, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, 2006-08Member, Geography Graduate Committee – University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Department of
Anthropology and Geography, 2006-08 Member, Equity and Diversity Committee – University of Canterbury, College of Science, 2005Member, Student - Staff Committee - University of Canterbury, Department of Geography,
2004-05Member, Academic Committee - University of Canterbury, Department of Geography, 2004-05
COMMUNITY SERVICEMentor: Māori and Indigenous Graduate Student National (NZ) Programme, Te Tapuae o
Rehua, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2004-2005
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