People
Director

Scott Manning Stevens [Akwesasne Mohawk]
Associate Professor, Director, Native American and Indigenous Studies
Email: scsteven@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.8785
Affiliated Faculty

Percy Abrams [Onondaga Nation]
Assistant Teaching Professor
Email: pwabrams@syr.edu

Philip P. Arnold
Associate Professor
Email: pparnold@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.3861

Hayley Marama Cavino [Ngāti Whitikaupeka, Ngāti Pūkenga (Maori), Aotearoa/New Zealand]
Part-Time Instructor, A&S Curriculum and Instruction
Email: hcavino@syr.edu

Melissa Chipman [Cherokee descent]
Assistant Professor: Arctic Paleoecology & Paleoclimate
Email: mlchipma@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.2489

PJ DiPietro
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Email: pjdipiet@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.3707

Mariaelena Huambachano [Quechua, Peru]
Assistant Professor
Email: mhuambac@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.3861

Estelí Jimenez-Soto
Assistant Professor, Falk Food Studies
Email: mejime01@syr.edu

Robin Kimmerer [Citizen Potawatomi Nation]
Distinguished Teaching Professor, Environmental and Forest Biology
Email: rkimmer@esf.com
Phone: 315.470.6785

Heather Law Pezzarossi
Assistant Professor
Email: hblaw100@syr.edu

Aaron Luedtke [Suquamish descent]
Assistant Professor, History
Email: akluedtk@syr.edu

Ethan Madarieta
Assistant Professor
Email: ermadari@syr.edu

Danika Medak-Saltzman [Turtle Mountain Chippewa]
Assistant Professor
Email: dfmedaks@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.3707

Dana M. Olwan
Associate Professor
Email: dmolwan@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.3707

Guido Pezzarossi
Associate Professor and Interim Director of Native American and Indigenous Studies
Email: gpezzaro@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.1359

Chie Sakakibara [Ryūkyūan descent, Japan]
Associate Professor, Geography and the Environment
Email: csakakib@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.3679

Sascha Scott
Associate Professor
Email: sscott04@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.5033

Scott Manning Stevens [Akwesasne Mohawk]
Associate Professor, Director, Native American and Indigenous Studies
Email: scsteven@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.8785

Sally Roesch Wagner
Part Time Instructor, Honors Program
Email: srwagner@syr.edu