# Native American and Indigenous Studies Minor

**Source**: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/faculty/NAIS.html
**Parent**: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/front/courses.html

[ [program](https://catalog.ucsd.edu/curric/NAIS.html) ]

*All courses, faculty listings, and curricular and degree requirements described herein are subject to change or deletion without notice.*

#### Core, Adjunct, and Affiliated Faculty (CAAF)

Sarah Aarons, PhD, *Scripps Institution of Oceanography*

Patrick Anderson, PhD, *Communication and Ethnic Studies*

Adam Burgasser, PhD, *Physics*

Julie Burrell, PhD, *Theatre and Dance*

Gabriela Caballero, PhD, *Linguistics*

Gloria Chacon, PhD, *Literature*

Tom Csordas, PhD, *Anthropology*

Keolu Fox (Kanaka Maoli), PhD, *Anthropology*

Ross Frank, PhD, *Ethnic Studies*

Tommi Gaines (Diné), PhD, *Medicine*

Christine Hunefeldt, PhD, *History*

Elizabeth Newsome, PhD, *Art History*

Shaista Patel, PhD, *Ethnic Studies*

Heather Poncetti-Daly (lipay Nation Santa Ysabel), PhD, *History*

Nancy Postero, *Anthropology*

Isabel Rivera-Collazo, PhD, *Anthropology and Scripps Institution of Oceanography*

Daphne Taylor-Garcia, PhD, *Ethnic Studies*

Kathryn Walkiewicz, PhD, *Literature*

K. Wayne Yang, PhD, *Ethnic Studies*

#### Community, Staff, and Student Advisory Council (CSSAC)

Elena Hood (Absentee Shawnee/Pauma/Choctaw), *Intertribal Resource Center*

Corrine Hensley-Dellefield (Catawba), *Intertribal Resource Center*