Courses on Indigenous sovereignty movements and 21st-century empire in comparative and global perspective, with particular emphasis on institutional configurations of colonialism and corresponding strategies of Indigenous anticolonial resistance.

Courses on community-engaged research traditions, with particular emphasis on participatory action research methodologies, Indigenous methodologies, and balancing academic rigor with real-world social impact.

Courses on theories of empire in comparative and global perspective, emphasizing how processes of economic dependency, political domination, militarism, and racialization offer analytical insights into the complex, variegated configurations of contemporary post-WWII imperialism.

Courses on contemporary Indigenous Oceanic political thought as a critical lens to engage with key issues in Indigenous politics, including sovereignty, self-determination, nationalism, regionalism, and transnationalism.

Courses on bridging Indigenous studies with dominant sociological theories of social movements to analyze the distinctive dimensions of Indigenous social movements, including group boundary work, rhetorical framing, brokerage, resource mobilization, political claims-making, and organizing strategies.

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).

Syllabus here.

Advanced undergraduate/graduate-level seminar on Indigenous and participatory action research methodologies, 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.

Syllabus here.

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 the Indigenous-led efforts to increase Indigenous access to and control over data on Indigenous peoples, lifeways, territories, and resources, with particular emphasis on the political economy of tribal and Indigenous nonprofit data governance in the continental United States.

Syllabus forthcoming.

Advanced undergraduate-level seminar on contemporary Indigenous political thought, with particular emphasis on Oceania (i.e., the Pacific Islands) as a critical site of theorization, covering key topics including mobility, militarism, nuclearism, tourism, nationalism, regionalism, and globalism.

Syllabus forthcoming.