Native American Studies at Stanford

NAS Faculty
As diverse as the Native American Studies major itself, Native American Studies professors come from a wide range of deparments, and have expertise in a variety of fields. Click on the professor's name or picture or name to learn more about their research interests and publications.

	JoEllen Anderson Native American Studies Lecturer Email: andersonje@berkeley.edu	Anderson's teaching and research interests include American Indian education, histories of tribal nations and indigenous politics. Other research examines Native Americans and film.

	Stacey Jessiman de Nanteuil Native American Studies Lecturer Email: sjdenant@	Jessiman takes a multi-disciplinary approach to researching and teaching Indigenous cultural heritage issues. Her research focuses on colonialism's impact on Indigenous cultural practices, national and international legal and non-legal frameworks for protection and repatriation of cultural heritage, the relationship between museums and Indigenous peoples, and repatriation disputes.

	Kenneth Fields Professor of English Email: fields@	Fields’ research interests include creative writing, American literature, French symbolist poetry, American Indian literature, and film.

	Teresa LaFromboise Professor of Education Email: lafrom@	Dr. LaFromboise is currently studying culturally tailored cognitive behavioral interventions as an area of prevention for offsetting underlying factors of vulnerability that contribute to high-risk behavior among youth from diverse cultures.

	Sharon Nelson-Barber Native American Studies Lecturer Email: snelson@wested.org	Dr. Nelson-Barber is researching culturally responsive mathematics and science education for indigenous students.

	Matthew Snipp Director of NAS Professor of Sociology Email: snipp@	Snipp’s research investigates how factors such as residence, education, and family composition are affect people’s racial self-identification, particularly among persons of American Indian and multiracial backgrounds.

	Michael Wilcox Assistant Professor of Anthropology Email: mwilcox@	Wilcox’s research interests include postcolonial approaches to archaeology, ethnic identity and conflict, and political and historical relationships between Native Americans and anthropologists and archaeologists.