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Danica Miller, Ph.D.
Puyallup
Dr. Danica Miller is an associate professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences' Division of Social & Historical Studies. Her research analyzes how various works by Native American writers — including Mourning Dove, D’arcy McNickle, Louise Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko and Sherman Alexie — engage the ways in which federal laws attempt to limit Native American tribal sovereignty. These writers portray Native American characters who use their unique socio-political position to contest legal marginalization and actualize new modes of identity. Her work pinpoints a moment at which Native Americans draw upon distinctive cultures and histories in order to formulate resistance.
Michelle Montgomery, Ph.D.
Haliwa Saponi/Eastern Band Cherokee
Dr. Michelle Montgomery is a Professor at the University of Washington Tacoma School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences in American Indian Studies and Ethnic, Gender and Labor Studies. She is also the Assistant Director for the Office of Undergraduate Education. Dr. Montgomery's research focuses on Indigenizing and decolonizing the climate change narrative, environmental ethics connected to Indigenous Peoples’ identities and eco-critical race theory to eliminate racial and environmental oppression.
Dawn Hardison-Stevens, Ph.D.
Omushkeg Cree-Metis, Ojibway, Cowlitz, Steilacoom
Dr. Dawn Hardison Stevens is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education. Her career focus supports positive change in Native communities within academic systems. Through experiential knowledge and ancestral knowing, her academic and life journey mobilized lifelong learning, instilling within her the realization that we are all learners regardless of age and where we call home. Travels abroad and in communities of original inhabitants, she listens to their stories learning of environmental interconnectedness, which brought an enjoyment to guiding students toward their potential of achievement, and allowing them to seek their passions with personal definitions of owning their success.
