Credentials:   

• BA (Geography – U of Texas, 1992)   
• Master of Forestry Science (Northern Arizona University, 2003)   
• PhD (U of Manitoba, 2010)  

Research Interests:   

• Ethnoecology
• Indigenous environmental and resource systems
• Indigenous knowledge of minerals
• Community-based research  

Expertise:  

• Cultural landscapes
• Indigenous use of fire
• Rarámuri (Tarahumara) ethnoecology
• Anishinaabe ethnoecology  

Courses Taught:  

• INDG 201 Contemporary Issues in Indigenous Studies 
• INDG 222 Indigenous and Traditional Ecological Knowledge   
• INDG 236 Indigenous Economies, Environments and Geographies  
• INDG 280 Research Issues in Indigenous Studies  
• INDG 300 Indigenous Peoples and Development Change in Latin America