Role: Faculty
Lynn Paxson
Research Interests Design as a material and cultural product (the interaction of the social/cultural and physical environment); alternative viewpoints/cultures/histories of architecture--particularly Native Americans/American Indians or First Nations; publicness and public space focusing on social/cultural aspects of the regulation of environments...
Brianna Burke
My current book project, Becoming Beast, expands the burgeoning, multi-disciplinary field of Environmental Justice (EJ) to consider how not only the ideologies of race, class, and gender have been used to justify inflicting environmental burdens on specific populations, but also...
Sebastian Braun
Sebastian Braun became Director of American Indian Studies at ISU in 2015; he was previously chair of the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of North Dakota. Earned a Lic.phil.I in Ethnology, History, and Philosophy from the University...
Jen Coppoc
Jen McClung is a Pushcart-nominated poet, a finalist in the Creative Nonfiction/W.W. Norton Program-Off, and an avid fiction writer as well. Her work appears in journals like The Cartographer Electric! and Hayden’s Ferry Review, and in anthologies like TalkingImageConnection’s Floating...
Christina Gish Hill
Christina Gish Hill received her PhD from the University of Minnesota in American Studies. Her research combines the ethnographic methodology and theory of Anthropology and the archival research methods of history to study socio-political organization and the expression of sovereignty...
Grant Arndt
In my work as a cultural anthropologist, I use ethnographic, historical, and semiotic methods to study Indigenous (American Indian) activism in contemporary struggles for survival and self-determination. I have published peer-reviewed articles in Comparative Studies in Society and History, The...