AIS Faculty and Advisory Board
AIS Faculty
Scott Andrews, Ph.D., Coordinator
B.A. University of Oklahoma, 1987M.A. University of California, Riverside, 1993
Ph.D. University of California, Riverside, 2000Dr. Andrews is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. He teaches American and American Indian literatures in the English Department and the American Indian Studies Program's course on popular culture. Dr. Andrews has published book reviews, essays, fiction, and poetry.
He can be reached at scott.andrews@csun.edu.
Karren Baird-Olson, Ph.D.
B.S., Montana State University, Bozeman, 1962
M.A., University of Montana, Missoula, 1984
Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 1994Dr. Baird-Olson is of Wyandot descent and in 1958 she married into the Nakota Nation of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux reservation (Montana). She teaches American Indian Studies courses and criminology courses in the Department of Sociology. Her publications include articles on American Indian women's spiritual practices, victimization, and activism.
She can be reached at karren.bairdolson@csun.edu.
Brian Burkhart, Ph.D.
B.A. University of Northern Colorado, 1997
Ph.D. Indiana University, 2008
Dr. Burkhart is of Cherokee descent but grew up on the Navajo Nation in Arizona. He specializes in American Indian intellectual history, environemental philosophy and justice, sacred places and development, and other issues. His forthcoming book is titled Respect for Kinship: Toward an Indigenous Environmental Ethics.
He can be reached at brian.burkhart@csun.edu.
AIS Program Advisory Board
- Scott Andrews, English
- Karren Baird-Olson, American Indian Studies, Sociology/Criminology
- Brian Burkhart, American Indian Studies
- Kathryn Sorrells, Communication Studies
- Sirena Pelarollo, Modern and Classical Literatures and Languages
- Loretta Winters, Sociology
- Douglas Carranza, Central American Studies
- Rosa Furumoto, Chicano/a Studies
- Doris Clark, EOP Admissions and Partnerships
- Ogo Okoye Johnson, Pan African Studies
Staff
- Thomas Kadenihii
Community Advisors
- Danielle Glenn-Rivera
- Tim Belfield
- Pamela Villasenor
- John Orendorff
- Ron Andrade
- Rudy Ortega Jr.