The Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies community consists of a Faculty Director, Seven Executive Board Members (including one Graduate Student Representative), a Program Coordinator, Seven External Advisory Board Members, Core Faculty, Affiliate Faculty, as well as Students and Staff from across the CU Boulder campus. Our Center’s Core and Affiliate Faculty include more than forty scholars and researchers who work partly or entirely in the area of Indigenous Studies and/or who work closely with Indigenous communities.
Faculty Director
Andrew Cowell
Faculty Director • Executive Board Member • Professor
Linguistics
Staff
Lila Crank
CNAIS Office Manager • Administrative Coordinator
Graduate School
Executive Board Members
Joe Bryan
Associate Professor
Geography
Cassie Sando
Director
CU Upward Bound
Anna Tsouhlarakis
Assistant Professor
Department of Art and Art History
Melanie Yazzie
Professor • Area Coordinator Printmaking
Art and Art History
Leila Gómez
Professor
Women and Gender Studies
Christina Stanton
Director, American Indian Law Clinic
American Indian Law Clinic
Graduate Representative
Tanner Peltier
PhD Student, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB)