Courses on state-society relations in comparative and global perspective, emphasizing how political, economic, and institutional processes at multiple scales—global (norm diffusion, international organizations, trade, capital flows, transnational brokers), national and local (law and policy, demography, racial regimes, economic development) enable, constrain, and are transformed by civil society organizations, with particular emphasis on Indigenous and migrant civil society.

Courses on community-engaged research traditions—especially participatory action research methodologies and Indigenous methodologies—with particular emphasis on negotiating between normative standards of social-scientific rigor, relational accountability to marginalized communities, and real-world social impact.

Courses on how anticolonial movements respond to the specificities of their respective colonial and imperial contexts, with particular emphasis on how such contextual variations enable and/or constrain the strategic value of anticolonial nationalisms, regionalisms, and internationalisms.

Courses on contemporary Indigenous Oceanic political thought (1970s–present) as a critical lens to engage with key themes in Indigenous politics, including settler-colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, racism, queerphobia, heteropatriarchy, sovereignty, self-determination, nationalism, regionalism, migration, development, dependency.

Courses on dominant sociological theories of social movements, with particular emphasis on social movement process—including but not limited to group boundary work, rhetorical framing, brokerage, resource mobilization, political claims-making, and organizing strategies—across social movements for economic justice, Black lives, Indigenous sovereignty, migrant justice, and queer liberation in the United States.

Introductory undergraduate-level primer on Indigenous politics, using key concepts within Indigenous studies (including Indigeneity, kinship, sovereignty, nationhood, settler-colonialism, imperialism) to analyze pertinent domains of contemporary social problems and political struggles (e.g., anti-Blackness and systemic racism, migration, MMIWG2S, Indigenous data sovereignty, Indigenous resurgence, Indigenous internationalisms).

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Advanced undergraduate/graduate-level seminar on participatory action research , emphasizing analytical tools to navigate trade-offs of participatory action research design when working directly with Indigenous peoples to advance ongoing struggles for Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination.

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Introductory graduate-level seminar elaborating on the key concepts of Indigenous studies (e.g., land, knowledge, sovereignty, self-determination, nationhood, kinships) and situating Indigeneity among other key humanistic and social-scientific analytical frameworks (e.g., postcolonial, critical-race, feminist, queer).

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Advanced undergraduate-level course surveying contemporary Indigenous-led efforts to increase Indigenous access to and control over data on Indigenous peoples, lifeways, territories, and resources across the Anglophone settler-colonial states, Africa and Latin America.

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Advanced undergraduate-level course on the politics of Indigenous planning, emphasizing how different colonial contexts (in North America, Oceania, Latin America, and East Asia) differentially shape the forms and effectiveness of Indigenous planning strategies. Cross-listed with Urban Planning.

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