Welcome to my website!

I am a Ph.D student in History at Columbia University. Since my Master's thesis (2006), my research has focused on indigenous activism during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. My dissertation will examine the internationalization of indigenous politics and activism since 1974. More broadly speaking, I am interested in social change, culture, identity, politics, and languages and linguistics.  In my free time, I enjoy swimming, learning languages, and traveling.

 NEWS!

 My paper "Revendications de la souveraineté à Wounded Knee II (1973): entre identités et politiques" is now forthcoming and was published along with other essays in a collection on the themes of identity and conflict by Presses Universitaires de Rennes (University Press of Rennes), France in June 2010.

I submitted a book review of Keeping the Campfires Going to Ethnohistory in February.

I have recently accepted an official position as an Editorial Assistant for Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/Forum: Qualitative Social Research. You can visit http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/about/editorialTeam and http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs for more.

On February 24th, I had the honor to introduce Robert T. Coulter, the director of the Indian Law Resource Center for his presentation as part of the Vine Deloria Distinguished Scholars Series at the University of Arizona. For more information, please visit: http://www.ais.arizona.edu/event/vine-deloria-distinguished-scholars-series-robert-coulter-director-american-indian-law-resourc.

Grant proposal update:

Submitted: Herbert E. Carter Travel Award to receive funding to attend the Ninth Session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), which will be held at the United Nations headquarters in New York, April 19-30, 2010. Update: Awarded.

In progress: Phillips Fund Grant for Native American Research to conduct archival research at the UN headquarters in New York and Geneva for my dissertation on international indigenous activism and the United Nations since 1974. Update: Postponed to Summer 2011.

In progress: Graduate and Professional Student Council Travel Grant, University of Arizona, to attend the UNPFII. Update: Awarded.

I was selected to be a judge for the June round of travel grant applications by the Graduate and Professional Student Council, University of Arizona.

I am currently writing a review of Becoming Historians for NeoAmericanist and will be volunteering at the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association conference to be held in Tucson, May 21-23. You will find me at the registration desk.