Invited Presentations & Workshops
2019
 
“A Reservation of Water.” Re-Valuing the Ocean: Perspectives from the Law, the Sciences, and the Blue Humanities. University of Utah.
 
2018
 
Indigenous Knowledges and Sustainable Pasts/futures writing sprint. Mountain Arts Foundation and the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research. Bozeman, Montana.
 
“Anchorage Scene as Colonial History.” Punk Américas symposium and workshop. National Autonomous University of Mexico. Mexico City, Mexico.
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Koniag Education Foundation strategic planning session. Kodiak Brown Bear Center. Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, Kodiak Island.
 
“Working Together: The Alaska Native Studies Movement.” Keynote Address. Alaska Native Studies Conference. Juneau, Alaska.
 
“The Great Land: History and Progress.” Manuscript workshop. School for Advanced Research. Santa Fe, New Mexico.
 
2017
 
“The Great Land: The Environment and Belonging in Native Alaska.” School for Advanced Research. Santa Fe, New Mexico
 
2016
 
“The Great Land: The Environment and Nationalism in Native Alaska.” Environmental Humanities Graduate Program Speaker Series. University of Utah.
        
2015
Koniag Education Foundation Strategic Planning Session. Anchorage, Alaska.
 
2014
 
“Citizen-Subjects in the Last Frontier.” Human Rights Institute Speaker Series, University of Connecticut.
 
“Citizen-Subjects in the Last Frontier.” Ethnic Studies Department, Colorado State University.
 
2013
 
“Race and Indigeneity in the Alaska Territory.” Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues, University of California, Berkeley.
 
2012
 
“Spaces of Violence in the Anti-Depression Uliimaaq.” School of Art, Arizona State University.
 
Koniag Education Foundation Strategic Planning Session. Anchorage, Alaska.
 
2006
 
“Kodiak Native Experiential Representations in Northern California.” Woody Island Tribal Retreat, Woody Island, Alaska. 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2018
Panelist, “Growing Our Numbers: Alaska Native PhDs.” Alaska Native Studies Conference. Juneau, Alaska.

2016
Panel Organizer, “Carwaq Tukniuq, Agua-cines, and Maritime Exile: Explorations in Wet Globalization.” American Studies Association Conference, Denver.

Panelist, “Carwaq Tukniuq.” American Studies Association Conference, Denver.

Panelist, “Therapeutic Environments and the Colonial Spaces of Susie Silook’s ‘The Anti-Depression Uliimaaq.’”
Alaska Native Studies Conference, University of Alaska, Anchorage.

Moderator, “New Educational Paradigms,” Alaska Native Studies Conference, UAA.
 
2015
 
Panel Organizer, “A Tradition of Activism: The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.” The American Indian Studies Association. University of New Mexico.
 
Panelist, “Between Corporations and Tribes in Native Alaska.” The American Indian Studies Association. University of New Mexico.
 
Panel Organizer, “Alaska Native Arts and Culture.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Conference, Washington D.C.
 
Panelist, “Uncovering a History of Art and Violence through Susie Silook’s The Anti-Depression Uliimaaq.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Conference, Washington D.C.
 
2014
 
Panel Organizer, “Alaska Native Knowledge, Activism, and the Academy.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Conference, University of Texas at Austin.
 
Panelist. “The Alaska Native Studies Movement.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Conference, University of Texas at Austin.
 
Panelist, “National Belonging, Indigeneity, and Extractive Colonialism in Native Alaska.” Alaska Native Studies Conference, University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau, Alaska.

2013
 
Chair, “A Sacred Mountain, a Disputed Land Grant, and Aztlán: Asking ‘Whose Land?’and ‘Whose History?’ at Three Sites of Contestation out West.” Western History Association, Tucson.
 
Panelist, “Indigenous Subject-Citizens.” Decolonizing History Panel, Alaska Native Studies Conference, University of Alaska Anchorage.
 
Moderator, “The Future of Alaska Native Languages.” Alaska Native Studies
Conference, University of Alaska Anchorage.
 
Moderator, “Growing the Road Home: Alaska Native Education Foundations Linking
Higher Education to Workforce Development.” Alaska Native Studies
Conference, University of Alaska Anchorage.
 
Moderator, “Russian Encounters.” Alaska Native Studies Conference, University of Alaska Anchorage.
 
Moderator, “Sustaining Tribal Communities and Cultural Centres.” American Indian Studies Association, Arizona State University.
 
2012
 
Panel organizer, “Realizing the Indigenous Planetary.” Panelist, “The Bering Region, Translocality, and the Indigenous Planetary,” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Conference, Unacasville, Connecticut.
 
2011
 
Panelist. “Race Technologies and Yupik Subjectivity in ‘Uncle Good Intentions,’ by Susie Silook.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Conference, University of California, Davis.
 
2010
 
Panelist. “Diane Benson’s River Woman and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Conference, University of Arizona, Tucson.
 
2008
 
Panelist, “Domesticating the Last Frontier.” Ethnohistory Conference, Eugene, Oregon.
 
2007
 
Panelist, “How do Alaska Natives fit into United States Polity?” Crossing Borders: Ethnic Studies Conference University of California, San Diego.
 
CAMPUS PRESENTATIONS
           
2014
 
“The Alaska Native Studies Blog.” Native American Cultural Month Speaker Series. Colorado State University.
 
“Slow Violence Across the Land and Sea.” Native American Cultural Month Speaker Series. Colorado State University.
 
2013
 
“Mapping Indigeneity, History, and the Western Environment: The Geography of Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead.” “Map(ing)” exhibit, Arizona State University Art Museum. 
 
2012
 
 “Jurisdiction, Tribes, and Native Corporations.” Sovereignty and Autonomy in the Western Hemisphere Symposium Series, “Making Sovereignty Real: An Introduction to Indigenous Control Over Resources.” University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
 
“Historical Ecologies at Fort Ross California State Park’s Cultural Celebration Day.” American Indian Studies Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
 
2011
 
“Alaska Native Representations of National Belonging.” Native American House Public Lecture. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.