Education
PhD
Northern Arizona University. Politics & International Affairs.
December 2017
Dissertation Title: Tools Of Ethnocide: Assimilation And Benevolence In Native American Boarding Schools.
Areas of Concentration: international relations, genocide studies, crimes against humanity, indigenous topics.
MA
Northern Arizona University. Political Science.
December 2007
BA
Equivalent.
Georg August Universität Göttingen, Germany. North American Studies.
July 2004
Invited Talks
2022
Invited speaker for Orange Shirt Day, U.S. Boarding School Legacy and ‘The Road to Healing,’ at Coconino Community College (9/22/2022)
Panel discussion: Supporting Indigenous Students Abroad at Center for International Education, Northern Arizona University (10/18/2022)
Presentation, Ethnocide and the Role of Native American Boarding Schools and
Panel, Memory and Denial. Genocide Awareness Week, at Arizona State University (4/5/22)
2021
Presentation, Thanksgiving: National Day of Mourning? German American Institute (d.a.i.) at the Universität Tübingen, Germany. Virtual and livestreamed on YouTube (11/24/21)
2021
Brown Bag presentation, Assimilation and Perpetrators: The Case of Native American Boarding Schools. Depts of Ethnic Studies and Sociology, NAU, Flagstaff, AZ (2/2/21)
Grants and Awards
2022
Award: Faculty Excellence in Global Learning, $1000
Maxwell-Lutz Community Impact Award for faculty-student project entitled Care for Nahádzáán for Engineers (“Care for Mother Earth”), $5,000
2021
Northern Arizona University, Office of the Vice President for Research. Scholarly and Creative Activity (SCA) Award: $3434 for COVID-19 Pandemic Across Tribal Nations research project. Co-PI to Dr. Alvarez in Criminology & Criminal Justice and Dr. Camarillo in Political Science at Western Oregon University
2017
Northern Arizona University, Office of the Vice President for Research. Support for Graduate Students award: $1500 for hiring of an undergraduate research assistant for my research.
Northern Arizona University, Department of Politics & International Affairs. Graduate Student Research Award: $1000 for travel for my research.
Northern Arizona University, Department of Politics & International Affairs, Dean of Social & Behavioral Sciences, and Graduate Student Government: $925 for conference travel.
2016
Northern Arizona University, Office of the Vice President for Research. Support for Graduate Students award: $1500 for travel to National Archives locations for my research.
Northern Arizona University, Department of Politics & International Affairs, Dean of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Vice-President for Research, and Graduate Student Government: $875 for conference travel.
2015
Arizona State University scholarship: Attendance at the symposium Colonial Conquest in the Nazi East and the American West: Value and Limits of Comparative Approaches. Topics focused on genocide and Indigenous groups and directly related to my dissertation.
Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University.
Northern Arizona University, Department of Politics & International Affairs, Dean of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Vice-President for Research, and Graduate Student Government: $850 for conference travel.
K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award: Finalist. Top 25, nationally.
2014
Northern Arizona University, Department of Politics & International Affairs, Dean of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Vice-President for Research, and Graduate Student Government: $718 for conference travel.
Northern Arizona University, Classified Staff Advisory Council: $150 book scholarship.
2013
Northern Arizona University, Classified Staff Advisory Council: $75 book scholarship.
Professional Memberships
Northeastern Political Science Association.
The American Society of Criminology.
Western Political Science Association.
Western Social Science Association.
Full CV Upon Request.