American Indian Studies, SFSU

As a professor of American Indian Studies at SFSU I teach a variety of AIS classes for general education, our undergraduate B.A. program, and Ethnic Studies graduate program.  As the director of the Cultural Conservancy I teach, co-teach, and facilitate a number of workshops, trainings, and courses for indigenous communities and the general public. As a faculty member at the Center For Whole Communities I co-facilitate retreats for environmental and social justice activists.

Fall 2010 – Spring 2011
I’ll be the Anne Ray Resident Fellow at the
School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Spring 2010     
• AIS 410 – Perspectives of Native California Indians
• AIS 680 – AIS Senior Seminar
• AIS 694 – Community Service Learning

Fall 09 - Sabbatical

Spring 09
• AIS 410 – Perspectives of Native California Indians
(co-taught with Kathy Wallace [Karuk/Yurok/Hupa/Mohawk])
• AIS 420 – American Indian Women
• AIS 701 – American Indian Studies Graduate Seminar

Spring 08
• AIS 410 – Perspectives of Native California Indians
• AIS 420 – American Indian Women
• AIS 520 – Before the Wilderness: American Indian Ecology & Environmental Studies




Adjunct Faculty

Center For Whole Communities