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.
Director

Andrew Cowell
Faculty Director • Executive Board Member • Professor
Linguistics
Program Manager

Cibonet Salazar
Program Manager
CNAIS
Executive Board Members

Joe Bryan
Associate Professor
Geography

Kristen Carpenter
Council Tree Professor of Law
Colorado Law School

Clint Carroll
Executive Board Member • Associate Professor
Ethnic Studies

Angelica Lawson
Executive Board Member • Assistant Professor
Film Studies • Ethnic Studies

Cassie Sando
Director
CU Upward Bound

Anna Tsouhlarakis
Assistant Professor
Department of Art and Art History
Graduate Representative

Saydie Sago
M.S. Graduate Student • Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Lab
Integrative Physiology