My graduate teaching brings together Indigenous knowledge systems, Indigenous research methodologies, data governance, research ethics, and community-engaged scholarship.
I often structure graduate courses through lectures, readings, discussion, journal-club style engagement, and assignments that build toward a portfolio, final paper, or collaborative group project.
My undergraduate teaching includes research methods, information ethics, policy, and Indigenous approaches to technology. In these courses, I help students build foundational skills in empirical research, ethical reasoning, critical analysis, and thoughtful engagement with information systems, technology, and society.
The courses below reflect my current teaching portfolio, including new courses that will be offered beginning in the 2026–27 academic year.
A graduate course on Indigenous knowledge systems, knowledge organization, stewardship, cultural protocols, and information practices. Students engage with Indigenous perspectives on knowledge, relationships, place, language, and community responsibility while considering implications for libraries, archives, and information institutions.
A graduate course on Tribal sovereignty, Indigenous data governance, research ethics, cultural protocols, intellectual property, and the protection of Indigenous knowledge systems. Students examine how Tribal nations govern knowledge, information, and data through contemporary and community-based approaches.
Graduate seminars on Indigenous research methodologies, applied Indigenous research methods, relationality, self-determination, Tribal community priorities, and ethical research practice. Across several offerings, students examined how Indigenous methodologies can guide research on health equity data, sea level rise and Tribal community relocation, federal decision-making, COVID-19, water security, and Native health.
An undergraduate research methods course focused on qualitative, quantitative, and design approaches used to study people, information, and technology. Students learn how to formulate research questions, evaluate prior research, analyze data, and communicate findings in a final research proposal.
I will teach this course in 2026–27. An undergraduate course on ethical, legal, and policy issues surrounding information, information technologies, and information industries. Students examine ethical theories and apply them to issues such as intellectual property, privacy, free speech, security, information access, and control.
I will teach this course in 2026–27. An undergraduate course focused on Indigenous issues in technology and the ethical development of digital tools. Students consider how relationality, Tribal sovereignty, protocols, and Indigenous knowledge systems inform digital spaces such as language apps, virtual reality, video games, digital heritage projects, and information technologies designed by and for Indigenous communities.
My teaching also extends beyond formal courses. Through journal clubs, directed research groups, Knowledge Families, writing retreats, student co-authorship, conference presentations, and community-engaged scholarship, I support students as emerging researchers, scholars, and professionals.