Christina Thomas

Education

MA Native American Studies
University of California, Davis 2021

BA Music
Minor Biology
University of Nevada, Reno 2019
 

Awards

• 2023                     Deans Graduate Summer Fellowship, College of Letters and Science, UC Davis
• 2022 - 2023          Fulbright Scholar, U.S. Fulbright Scholar/Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
• 2022                     Graduate Student of Color Summer Research Award, Student Recruitment and Retention, UC Davis
• 2022                     Graduate Student of the Month, Native Forward Scholars Program
• 2022 – 2023          Jack Montoya Memorial Scholarship, Native Cultures Fund
• 2022                     Emmon Bach Fellow, Linguistic Society of America
• 2022 - 2023          BIE Special Higher Education Program Fellowship, Native Forward Scholars Fund
• 2022                     Honorable Mention, Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellowship, First Nations Development Institute
• 2021                     AIGC Special Higher Education Program, American Indian Graduate Center
• 2021-2022            Jack Montoya Memorial Scholarship, Native Cultures Fund
• 2021                     Magrit Mondavi Graduate Fellow, College of Letters and Science, UC Davis
• 2021                     Outstanding Graduate Teacher Award, Graduate Studies, UC Davis
• 2021                     Honorable Mention, Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellowship, First Nations Development Institute
• 2021 – 2024          Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
• 2021                     American Indian Graduate Center Scholarship, Albuquerque, NM
• 2021                     Cobell Graduate Research Fellow, Indigenous Education, Inc.
• 2020                     Mellon Public Scholars Fellow, Davis Humanities Institute, UC Davis
• 2020                     Honorable Mention, Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
• 2020 – 2021          Podcasting in the Humanities Fellowship, National Humanities Center Regional Podcasting Institute
• 2020                     Mellon Public Scholars Fellow, Davis Humanities Institute, UC Davis
• 2020                     Fall Graduate Fellowship, Department of Native American Studies, UC Davis
• 2020                     Summer Graduate Fellowship, Department of Native American Studies, UC Davis
• 2020                     Travel Award, Graduate Student Association, UC Davis
• 2020                     Travel Award, Department of Native American Studies, UC Davis

Presentations

• 2023          “Regeneration through Numu Nugadu: Embodied Songs and Stories of (Re)turning Home”. Native American and Indigenous Studies Association International Conference. Toronto, Canada. May 11-13.
• 2022          “Sounding Language and Song: The Significance of Indigenous Worldviews”. Indigenous Sound Studies Symposium. University of California, Berkeley. April 15.
• 2021          “Numu Nugadu: Our Dances.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association International Conference. Online/Virtual. June 14-21.
• 2021          “Great Basin Song and Story Project”. American Indian and Indigenous Collective Symposium. University of California, Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara, California. February 19-21.
• 2021            “(Re)turning Home: (Re)Awakening Numu Songs and Dances for the Generation.” Society for the Study of Indigenous Language of the Americas. Online/Virtual. January 10.
• 2020            “Numu Hoobea: Songs as Bridges between Tribal Communities and Higher Education.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association International Conference. Toronto, Canada. May 6-9. *cancelled due to COVID-19
• 2020            “Dancing in the Footsteps of our Ancestors.” American Indian and Indigenous Collective Symposium. University of California, Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara, California. February 20-23.