CV and Credentials

Awards and Research

Awards:

National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 2009

Ki Mantle Hood Prize, Southern California Society for Ethnomusicology, 2016

Ordained Minister of Religious Practices and Studies, U.L.V., Cincinnati, OH. - 2017

Research Interest/Research Profile:

My interest is surmised by my philosophy to generate new epistemologies of critical discourse. My current research projects are involved and surround the expressive arts (audio, text, performing, visual) and critical cultural theory. I anticipate future research and writing projects to continue along the lines of cultural critical analysis and sociopolitical hermeneutics. It is my commitment to demonstrate how the expressive arts can be utilized as an agent of resistance to structural and institutionalized hegemony, colonialism, and challenge issues of identity construction for equity and socio-political justice. My publications and continued academic and outside research fortify this commitment.

Research Experience:

My research experience includes contemporary analysis, review and production of academic and artistic works focusing on both Native/Indigenous and non-

Native/Indigenous scholarship and creative expressions. Previous and current independent research projects methodologies include, but not limited to, text and document reviews, personal, phone/zoom interviews, artistic exhibitions, and performance evaluations. Each research project I engage is significantly designed and may include a dynamic coupling and use of artistic representations with a focus on the creative deconstruction of identity.

• Wakonda’s Dream, Native American Opera (San Diego, CA and Omaha, NA), research assistant, 2003 - 2007

• Rebel Music, MTV (New York, NY), advisory board member, 2013 – 2018