Alumni from NAS Graduate Program
Call for Submissions
We invite all Alumni of the Native American Studies Graduate Program to submit the following: name, degree(s), current educational institution, employment, professional titles, tribal affiliation, and email address. Email your information to Stella Mancillas at scmancillas at ucdavis.edu.
Partial Listing of Our Graduate Students Alumni
* Degrees awarded in Native American Studies Graduate Program, at UC, Davis
- Maria Aparicio
- M.A., 2004* - Comprehensive Exam (Non-Thesis)
- JD Degree, 2008, School of Law, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Catherine Cardozo
- M.A., 2001* - Comprehensive Exam (Non-Thesis)
- Ph.D., 2005* - Dissertation: “The California Indian Basketweavers Association: A Native agency for change and cultural continuity”
- Current position: Air Pollution Specialist, California Air Resources Board.
- Cibonay Cordova
- M.A., 2003* - Comprehensive Exam (Non-Thesis)
- Current position: Community Services Coordinator, Sacramento Native American Health Center, Inc.
- Susan Daniels
- M.A., 2007* - Comprehensive Exam (Non-Thesis)
- Sara Dutschke
- M.A., 2002* - Comprehensive Exam (Non-Thesis)
- JD Degree, 2006, McGeorge School of Law University of the Pacific
- Current position: Attorney, Kashmer & Associates, Berkeley, CA
- Dina Fachin
- Ph.D., 2008*
- Todd Gettleman
- M.A., 2008*
- Kerin Gould
- M.A., 2003* - Comprehensive Exam (Non-Thesis)
- Ph.D. 2007* - Dissertation: “Connecting Indigenous worldview, well-being, and community projects.”
- Current position: Independent Scholar
- Michael Grofe
- Ph.D., 2007* - Dissertation: “The Serpent Series: Precession in the Maya Dresden Codex.”
- Jane Haladay
- Ph.D., 2004* - Dissertation: "’Everything according to the first guidance of the spirits’": Female community in three Salish novels.”
- Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of American Indians Studies, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
- Julianne Hazelwood
- M.A., 2006* - Comprehensive Exam (Non-Thesis)
- Current position: Ph.D. Student, Geography, University of Kentucky
- Frances Kay Holmes
- M.A., 2006* - Comprehensive Exam (Non-Thesis)
- Current position: Ph.D. Student, Education, UC, Davis
- Jason Lacy
- M.A., 2004* - Thesis: “A Western Hemispheric Analysis: pan indigenous movements for human rights, sovereignty, self-determination, and self government.”
- Molly McGlennen
- Ph.D., 2005* - Dissertation: “It is evidence of faith to create: Spirituality and contemporary Native American women's poetics.”
- Current position: Assistant Professor, English Department, Vassar College
- Rodolfo Meyer
- Ph.D., 2008* - Dissertation: “Performance and Identity in Popular Culture’s Re/presentations of Tinku Ritual by Andean People.”
- Kirsten Meyer
- M.A., 2004* - Comprehensive Exam (Non-Thesis)
- Anneke Mundel
- M.A., 2001* - Comprehensive Exam (Non-Thesis)
- Marcus Peters
- M.A., 2003* - Comprehensive Exam (Non-Thesis)
- Barbara Rigby
- M.A., 2002* - Comprehensive Exam (Non-Thesis)
- Annie Ross
- Ph.D., 2002* - Dissertation: “One Mother Earth, one doctor water: A story about environmental justice in the age of nuclearism. A Native American view.”
- Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University
- Janferie Stone
- Ph.D., 2007* - Dissertation: “A Guatemalan tale of two wives: Nawales (shapeshifters) in a time of genocide.”
- Susan Stowell
- Ph.D., 2008* - Dissertation: “The Wäda-Tika of the former Malheur Indian Reservation.”
- Sheri Tatsch
- M.A., 2001* - Comprehensive Exam (Non-Thesis)
- Ph.D., 2006* - Dissertation: “The Nisenan: Dialects and districts of a speech community.”
- Jesus Valle
- M.A., 2003* - Comprehensive Exam (Non-Thesis)
- Current position: Professor, English Department, American River College
- Lisa Woodward
- M.A., 2002* - Comprehensive Exam (Non-Thesis)
- Ph.D., 2007* - Dissertation: “The Acjachemen of San Juan Capistrano: The history, language and politics of an indigenous California community.”
- Current position: Archivist, Pechanga Cultural Resources Department