Department: English
Official title: Associate Professor and Director, Native American and Indigenous Studies
Why you're part of the NAIS advisory committee: To support Indigenous students and to provide them a welcoming, safe, supportive, and tightly-knit intellectual community of inside and outside of the classroom; to grow the intellectual and place-/community-centered mission of NAIS; to increase the visibility of Indigenous peoples and Native Studies across campus and around the region; and to amplify Indigenous faculty, staff, and student representation across campus.
What you like to do outside work: Play golf, hike, camp, listen to music, pick around on the guitar and sing with my family and my wife, cook/grill/bbq, piddle for hours in the garden, watch films and binge interesting tv, FaceTime with family, host family and friends, travel every chance I get, listen to cool podcasts, hang out at the Longhouse and with the NAIS ARC, and generally have as good a time as I possibly can while also getting things done!