Cherokee Land Education

Clint Carroll's NSF project, "Knowing the Land," featured in Cherokee Phoenix

June 12, 2019

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Melgoza awarded the Frederick A. Cervantes Student Premio (Best Student Paper Award)

Jan. 31, 2019

The National Association of Chicano/a Studies has awarded our PhD Candidate, Raul Melgoza, the Frederick A. Cervantes Student Premio (Best Student Paper Award). His paper was titled “Like the Monarch Butterfly”: Mariposas, Migrantes, and Chicanx Comparative Critique. Congrats, Raul!

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DES Grad Students Receive Tinker Grants

Nov. 26, 2018

Three of our Ph.D. students, Lau Malaver, Alejandra Portillos & Jose Vasquez-Zarate, received Tinker Grants from the Latin American Studies Center to support their projects in Colombia, Mexico City & Oaxaca this summer 2019! For the duration of a month and a half, Lau Malaver, born and raised in Bogotá,...

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Gonzalez' MA thesis recognized among the 25 Most-Accessed Dissertations and Theses in August 2018

Oct. 3, 2018

Cassy's Master's thesis, titled, "Race, Gender, and Domestic Human Trafficking: An Intersectional Description of Human Trafficking Cases at the State Level," is one of the most-accessed of 2.25 million full-text graduate works across all subject areas, based on total PDF downloads in the ProQuest® Dissertations & Theses Global™ database. Congrats, Cassy!

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Natasha Myhal receives prestigious National Science Foundation award

April 10, 2018

Congrats to Natasha Myhal received a Research Experience for Graduate students (REG) award from the National Science Foundation! The award will allow her to carry out preliminary field research with Anishinaabe tribal governments and communities in Michigan and Minnesota this summer regarding their approaches to natural resource management.

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Clint Carroll: Rooting research in tribal partnerships

Feb. 6, 2018

Ethnic Studies Native American and Indigenous studies professor designs research relevant to tribal communities and the academy

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Professor Villanueva's new book featured in Arts & Science Magazine

Nov. 29, 2017

"What I am most proud of is finding the voice of the forgotten dead," Dr. Villanueva says.

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Professor Carroll's New Study in Environmental Research

Aug. 25, 2017

Dr. Carroll published a new article that analyzes the health effects of arsenic exposure among American Indian elders in the Western United States.

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Professor Carroll Receives NSF CAREER Award

Feb. 27, 2017

Dr. Clint Carroll received a prestigious faculty early career award from the National Science Foundation. Through a tribally-driven, integrated research and education project, Dr. Carroll will explore barriers to land-based cultural practices among Cherokee people in Oklahoma, and will promote cultural and ecological resiliency through the intergenerational transfer of traditional...