I am so excited to present at the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association annual conference in May in Tkaranto alongside Hi'ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart, Kristen Simmons, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Robyn Maynard, and Michelle Murphy as chair for our panel "Unfortunate Kinships: Rethinking Environmental Solidarities Across Indigenous Communities."
I am looking forward to giving a research talk at UC Davis for the Native American & Indigenous Studies Research Now Series on January 30th, from 10:30-11:10. I will be speaking about race, indigeneity and coloniality in Alaska and the Arctic. 
I am thrilled to be presenting in paper session "Critical Articulations of Labor & Care in Indigenous Alaska and Arctic" for the American Association of Geographers in Denver 2020 for the annual conference held in 2020 from April 6th-10th alongside Danielle DiNovelli Lang, Karen Hebert, Sonya Gray, and Alexander Arroyo with Emilie Cameron serving as discussant and chair. 
My second article for my column "iiyaaG eye" in my local hometown paper The Cordova Times is available here. I write about a major genealogical research project taken on by my mother, Pam Smith. It is immense and the first of its kind. 
I had the opportunity to interview Rebecca Nagle about her fantastic podcast, This Land, ​and her other crucial journalism for Edge Effects Magazine. If you're a podcast listener, please download and listen to This Land, wherein Nagle discusses Supreme Court case Carpenter v. Murphy that has the potential to renegotiate the jurisdiction of more than half of the state of Oklahoma, along with tribal sovereignty at large. 
I am writing a column for The Cordova Times, the local paper in my hometown in Alaska, called "iiyaaG Eye." You can find my first piece here. 
I'm looking forward to delivering my paper "Alaska Native Studies and NAIS: Attending to the Specificity of Emplaced Coloniality," on Friday November 8th at 8am, at the 2019 American Studies Association Conference held on November 7-10, on part one of a panel series titled, "Building and Fighting at the Crossroads of Ethnic Studies and Environmental Studies: Promises and Challenges in Praxis, Administration, and Theory." 
Please see the new department hires announcement from the Department of Geography at University of Wisconsin-Madison here. I am so thrilled to be joining this department along with these two new junior faculty! 
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​I am pleased to announce that I have been awarded the University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship! I will be joining the Native American Studies Department at the University of California Davis with co-faculty mentors Dr. Jessica Perea and Dr. Beth Rose Middleton in fall of 2019.

​I am thrilled to announce that I will be joining the American Indian Studies Program and Geography Department in fall of 2020 as an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison! 

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I am thrilled to have been invited to present my work for the Yi-Fu Tuan Lecture Series at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Department of Geography. My lecture "Indeterminate Natures: Ice, Race, and Indigeneity in Alaska and the Arctic," will trace a racial history of ice.








​I am excited to present work this October at the Center for Race and Gender from my fourth chapter "Joan Naviyuk Kane's Poem 'Exceeding Beringia': Disrupting Universal Human Events in Arctic Ice-Geographies." This presentation will focus on the material qualities of ice that refuse colonial categorizations of both land and water. I demonstrate how ice has been historically understood as unworthy of settlement which informed the legal racialization of indigenous peoples in the North, in essence demonstrating how materiality itself is racialized.

Listen to audio of the event here. 
I am looking forward to presenting my paper, "Ice and Indeterminacy: Historical and Emergent Racializations" at the 2018 annual meeting of the American Studies Association in Atlanta, Georgia. I will join a panel titled "In the Water: Racial Capitalism and Environmental Justice" for this year's theme States of Emergence. 

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I am very pleased to announce that I was chosen as an awardee for the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. I am grateful to the Ford Foundation for sponsoring me as a multi-year Predoctoral fellow, and again as a Dissertation fellow for the 2018-19 academic year.