Osage 1 (1979) by George Longfish (Seneca/Tuscarora)

Doctor of Philosophy Degree in

NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES

University of California, Davis
The Ph.D. and M.A. Programs in Native American Studies prepare Native American and indigenous scholars and non-Native allied scholars, to contribute our efforts to a more compassionate, critically conscious, and socially just society in which indigenous knowledges, histories, and cultures of the Americas are not only validated but recognized as significant to the overall understanding of who we are as human beings on this planet. Our unique interdisciplinary and hemispheric approach includes attention to the increasing diaspora of indigenous peoples throughout the Americas, and calls upon the authority of Native Intelligence (Native voices, Native texts) in all its forms and manifestations to address the issues that concern Native peoples, including the creative strategies for continuance they have developed over the centuries. At the Masters level, we prepare students for practice-oriented work; teaching in tribal college or other community colleges; for pursuit of a Ph.D. in Native American Studies or a related field at another university. At the Ph.D. level, we offer a course of study designed to train, strengthen and enlarge the critical mass of scholars working within the field of Native American Studies.

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nas.ucdavis.edu/graduate-program
Our Graduate Programs offer formal comparative, interdisciplinary, and hemispheric methodologies to the study of indigenous cultures of the Americas. This approach includes faculty specialized in a variety of disciplines including art, literature, religion, linguistics, history, anthropology, political science, ethnomusicology, performance and dance studies, and women and gender studies:
Jessica Bissett Perea (Denaina), Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles Assistant Professor Music and Sound Studies; Alaska Native and Circumpolar Inuit Music and Performance Art Cultures; African and Native alliances and cultural production in the Americas; Research Ethics and Methodologies; Critical Race and Gender Studies.

Ins Hernndez-Avila (Nez Perce/Tejana), Ph.D.

University of Houston Professor Native American Womens Poetry; Contemporary Indigenous literature of Mexico; Indigenous/Native Theater; Native American Religious Traditions; Native American Literature in Performance; Narratives of Indigeneity; Native American womens and Chicana spiritualties; creative writing/poetry/short fiction.

Justin Spence, Ph.D.

University of California, Berkeley Assistant Professor Native American languages; historical linguistics; language documentation and revitalization.

Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie (Taskigi/Din), M.F.A.

University of California, Irvine Associate Professor Director, C.N. Gorman Museum (http://gormanmuseum.ucdavis.edu/) Contemporary and traditional Indigenous arts. Studio works include photography, video, multi-media installations and traditional Native American techniques. Visual Sovereignty.

Steven J. Crum (Western Shoshone), Ph.D.

University of Utah Professor Ethnohistory of North America, Native American higher education, Western Shoshone.

Zoila Mendoza, Ph.D.

University of Chicago Professor Sociocultural Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, Performance and Dance Studies, Performance Practices in the Americas, particularly music, dance and festivals in Peru and the rest of the Andean region, Quechua language.

Liza Grandia, Ph.D.

University of California, Berkeley Associate Professor Qeqchi Maya; Belize & Guatemala; peasants, and agrarian change; corporate trade and globalization; foreign aid and empire; biodiversity conservation; political ecology and environmental justice; the politics of cancer; and theories of the commons.

For additional information, contact

Stella Mancillas
Graduate Program Coordinator

Beth Rose Middleton, Ph.D.

University of California, Berkeley Assistant Professor Native American community/ economic development; political ecology; Federal Indian law; Native American natural resource policy; qualitative GIS; indigenous geography and Cartography; intergenerational trauma and healing; participatory research methods; rural environmental justice; multi-cultural dimensions of conservation, land use, and planning.

scmancillas@ucdavis.edu Beth Rose Middleton

Assistant Professor Graduate Program Advisor brmiddleton@ucdavis.edu

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