Dr. Carroll's research explores the intersection of Indigenous governance and Indigenous environmental perspectives in settler state contexts. He studies the ability of Native nations to assert sovereignty over their lands and the extent to which this enables the perpetuation of unique ecological knowledges and practices. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, his work on Cherokee political and environmental history, environmental governance, and ethnobotany informs his long-term research agenda to develop a sovereignty-based political-ecological approach to Indigenous environmental issues.
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Native American and Indigenous studies, political ecology, Cherokee studies, Indigenous environmental health
ETHN 1023 - Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Studies
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Spring 2019 / Fall 2019 / Fall 2020
Introduces critical terms, issues, and questions that inform the discipline of American Indian Studies. Examines "historical silences" and highlights how American Indian scholars, poets, and filmmakers use their work to address/redress historical subjects, and represent their Native communities.
ETHN 2013 - Critical Issues in Native North America
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Spring 2018
Explores a series of issues including regulations of population, land and resource holdings, water rights, education, religious freedom, military obligations, the sociopolitical role of men and women, self-governance, and legal standing as these pertain to American Indian life.
ETHN 4233 - Native American and Indigenous Environmental Issues
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Spring 2018 / Spring 2019 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2024
Explores the unique knowledges, practices and perspectives of Native American and Indigenous peoples with regard to environmental issues, and how they both contrast with and complement dominant ways of knowing. Views central themes of Land, Plants, Animals, and Air/Water through political-ecological lenses. Critically assesses historical and contemporary Indigenous environmental matters in the contexts of colonial histories and tribal sovereignty. Recommended prerequisite: ETHN 1023 or ETHN 2013. Same as ETHN 5233.
ETHN 5233 - Native American and Indigenous Environmental Issues
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Spring 2018 / Spring 2019 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2024
Explores the unique knowledges, practices and perspectives of Native American and Indigenous peoples with regard to environmental issues, and how they both contrast with and complement dominant ways of knowing. Views central themes of Land, Plants, Animals, and Air/Water through political-ecological lenses. Critically assesses historical and contemporary Indigenous environmental matters in the contexts of colonial histories and tribal sovereignty. Recommended prerequisite: ETHN 1023 or ETHN 2013. Same as ETHN 4233.
ETHN 6001 - Research Methods in Critical Ethnic Studies
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Fall 2021 / Fall 2023
Examines various humanistic and social science research methodologies and applies critical frameworks (including feminist, queer, Indigenous and decolonial theories) to research through an intersectional lens committed to analyzing race, class, gender and sexuality as interconnected, knowledge-producing systems of power. Examines how Ethnic Studies scholars can engage with social justice projects by producing knowledge in cutting edge ways.
ETHN 6002 - Professionalization Seminar in Comparative Ethnic Studies
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Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023
Provides graduate students with professionalization skills, including how to prepare a national fellowship application, how to give a successful job talk, how to publish refereed journals and book volumes and how to approach the academic job market. May be repeated up to 2 total credit hours.
ETHN 6101 - Topics: Specialized Comparative Studies
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Spring 2020
Focuses on a variety of advanced interdisciplinary studies. Themes include: Race and Sports, Critical Whiteness Studies, Race and Masculinity, Applied Community Engagement, Black Women in the Diaspora, US/Mexico Border Cultures, Criminalization and Latinas/os, Race, Violence and Film, and Cuba and Tourism. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Recommended requisite: ETHN coursework.
ETHN 6841 - Advanced Directed Readings in Ethnic Studies
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Spring 2018 / Spring 2019
This is a graduate level directed readings course designed to expand student knowledge in a particular area of concentration with a broad interdisciplinary and comparative framework. These areas of concentration include work in Africana, American Indian, Asian American, Chicana and Chicano and Transnational/Hemispheric ethnic studies. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.
