Faculty

   

American Indian Studies Faculty

The American Indian Studies faculty is comprised of three full-time faculty, Associate Professor, Dr. Kimberly Robertson, Associate Professor, Dr. Theresa Gregor and Full-Time Lecturer and NAGPRA Coordinator, Cindi Alvitre. The part-time faculty are comprised of faculty that generally have a sustained history of participation within the urban American Indian community of Southern California, the coastal indigenous communities of Southern California and in the subject areas of the courses that they teach. Many of the American Indian Studies faculty work closely with the American Indian Student Council — the Native American Student Association, the CSULB NAGPRA Committee, the CSULB American Indian Science and Engineering Student Chapter and with the office of American Indian Student Services.

As of the Fall of 2021 the American Indian Studies Program is comprised of seventeen individuals.  One FERP (half-time) Program Director, one (half-time) Administrative Support Coordinator, one Associate Professor, one Assistant Professor, one full-time Lecturer, and thirteen part-time Lecturers teaching in our regular AIS Program and in the Long Beach Ethnic Studies Initiative where we teach college level AIS courses to high school students on local high school campuses.

With the new Ethnic Studies requirement in the CSU the American Indian Studies in the Fall of 2021 student demand for American Indian Studies courses at CSULB has increased greatly. This has created the need to hire additional tenure-track faculty and lecturer’s in AIS to meet the new demand for required Ethnic Studies courses and the eight hundred plus students that we now serve. 

As of Fall of 2021 many of the AIS faculty teaching our courses, self-identify as tribal members and/or descendants of the following nineteen American Indian nations: Tongva/Gabrielino, Acjachemen/Juaneno, Chumash, Iipai/Kumeyaay, Mutsun Ohlone, Hupa, Yurok, Karuk, Redwood Creek, Yaqui, Pascua Yaqui, Tohono O’odham, Navajo, Yakama, Muscogee Creek/ Mvskoke, Caddo, Delaware, Pawnee, and Onieda.

Welcome Dinner for New AIS Associate Professor Dr. Theresa Gregor

Welcome Dinner for New AIS Assistant Professor Dr. Theresa Gregor.

Welcome event for New AIS Professors

Dr. TJ Reed and Dr. Kimberly Robertson.

August 2022.

 

 

 

AIS Tenured Faculty

 

Professor Emeritus, School of Art and American Indian Studies
Craig Stone,
AIS Program Director (FERP)

Office: Virtual

Office Hours:  by appointment

E-mail: cstone@csulb.edu

AIS Partners Mentors Article 2006

Link to LB Post article about Craig Stone’s retirement

Link to Article about Public Art by Craig Stone

Link to Interview about Public Art by Craig Stone

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AIS Full-Time Tenure-Track Faculty

 

Associate Professor

Theresa Gregor

Office Hours: On Sabbatical Spring 2024

E-mail: theresa.gregor@csulb.edu

About Theresa Gregor

Link to Publication

 

Associate Professor

Kimberly Robertson

Virtual Office Hours: TBA

E-mail: kimberly.robertson@csulb.edu

 

 

TJ Reed

Assistant Professor

Office Hours: TBA

Email:   Thomas.reed@csulb.edu

 

Kelly Stewart

Assistant Professor

Office Hours: TBA

Email:   Kelly.Stewart@csulb.edu

 

AIS Full-Time Lecturer

Cindi Alvitre

Office: LA5-155

Office Hours: TBA

E-mail: Cindy.Alvitre@csulb.edu

About Cindi Alvitre

 

AIS Part-Time Faculty — Adjunct Faculty  (listed in Alphabetical Order)

Daniele Bolelli

Office: Virtual

Office Hours: TBA

email me at least a day or two ahead of time to reserve your spot. I will then email you an invite for videoconferencing.

E-mail: Daniele.Bolelli@csulb.edu

About Daniele Bolelli

Harrelson Notah

Office: Virtual

Office Hours:   TBA

Email: Harrelson.Notah@csulb.edu

 

Heidi Lucero

Office: Virtual

Office Hours:   TBA

Email: Heidi.lucero@csulb.edu

Link to Los Angeles Times article on Heidi Lucero

Judge Deborah Sanchez

Office Hours: TBA

Email:   judgesanchez@aol.com

Deborah Sanchez Website Bio

Lola Worthington

Office: Virtual

Office Hours: TBA

Email:   Lola.worthington@csulb.edu

 

        

Moira West

Office: FA4-110

Office Hours: TBA

Email:  moira.west@csulb.edu

 

 

Kevin Hale

Office: Virtual

Office Hours: TBA

Email:   Kevin.Hale@csulb.edu

 

Les Peters

Office: Virtual

Office Hours: TBA

Email:   Les.Peters@csulb.edu

 

 

Vincent Whipple

Office: Virtual

Office Hours: By Appointment

Email:   Vincent.Whipple@csulb.edu

 

 

Bruce Gomez

Office: Virtual

Office Hours: TBA

ONLINE via email, Zoom, or phone call.

Email:   Bruce.Gomez@csulb.edu

 

 

Taylor Maki

Office: Virtual

Office Hours: TBA

Email:  Taylor.Maki@csulb.edu

 

AIS LB-ESP Faculty — Long Beach Ethnic Studies Program

(listed in Alphabetical Order)

About the LBESP Collaboration

Farrah Ferris

Office:  Virtual

Office Hours:  Saturdays,  12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

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Rebecca Sanchez   

Office  Virtual

Office Hours:  Saturdays, Following Class. 12:30 – 1:30 pm

E-mail:

 

Adelita Arredondo

Office:  Virtual

Office Hours:  Saturdays from 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm

E-mail: Adelita.Arredondo@csulb.edu

 

Kevin Hale

Office  Virtual

Office Hours:  Saturdays, Following Class. 12:30 – 1:30 pm

E-mail:

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Anna H. Nazarian-Peters

Office:  Virtual

Office Hours:  Saturdays from 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm

E-mail: anna.nazarian@csulb.edu

Kathy Leonard

Office:  Virtual

Office Hours:  TBA

E-mail:

 

AIS Currently Affiliated Faculty   (listed in Alphabetical Order)

Laurie Gatlin

Associate Professor

Art Education Single Subject Coordinator

(Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Leech Lake Band)

Office: Virtual

Office Hours: by appointment

E-mail: laurie.gatlin@csulb.edu

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Moira West

Lecturer, School of Art

Office: Virtual

Office Hours: by appointment

E-mail: moira.west@csulb.edu

Marcus Young Owl

Professor of Physical Anthropology and Primate Biology

(Ojibway)

Office: Virtual

Office Hours: by appointment

E-mail: Dr.YoungOwl@csulb.edu

 Recent AIS Past Faculty

Georgiana Sanchez

 About Georgiana Sanchez

 

AIS Past Program Directors (listed chronologically)

 

 

Hotona Roebuck

Past Director of American Indian Studies

 

O.T. Ventris

Past Director of American Indian Studies

 

David C. Hood

Past Director of American Indian Studies

Richard Band

Past Director of American Indian Studies

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Dr. C. Blue Clark

Past Director of American Indian Studies

 

Loyd Inui

Past Director of American Indian Studies

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Emeritus Professor and Past Director of American Indian Studies

Richard Glazer Danay 

Email: rdanay@sbcglobal.net

www.facebook.com/RicDanayArt

Mary Ann Jacobs Associate Professor and ChairAmerican Indian StudiesPhone: 910-775-4262Email: mary.jacobs@uncp.edu

Past Director of American Indian Studies  (1990-1995)

Dr. Mary Ann Jacobs

email: mary.jacobs@uncp.edu

http://www.uncp.edu/academics/colleges-schools-departments/departments/american-indian-studies

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Emeritus Professor and Past Director of American Indian Studies

Dr. Lester Brown

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Emeritus Professor and Past Director of American Indian Studies

Richard Glazer Danay 

Email: rdanay@sbcglobal.net

www.facebook.com/RicDanayArt

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Emeritus Professor and Past Director of American Indian Studies

Dr. Troy Johnson  (1940-2014)