CURRICULUM VITAE – REVISED NOVEMBER 2015

JESSICA BISSETT PEREA

2417 HART HALL • ONE SHIELDS AVE • DAVIS, CA 95616 530.752.3237 • [email protected] WWW.JBPEREA.FACULTY.UCDAVIS.EDU

EDUCATION 2011 Ph.D., Musicology – University of California, Los Angeles Dissertation: “The Politics of Inuit Musical Modernities in Alaska” Committee: Olivia Bloechl (chair), Anthony Seeger, Tara Browner, Raymond Knapp, and Robert Fink 2005 M.A., Music (Musicology) – University of Nevada, Reno Thesis: “The Minor Intrusions of Charles Mingus: A Critique of a Modern Jazz Canon Formation” Committee: David Ake (chair), Louis Niebur, Dennis Dworkin (History) 2003 B.M., Music Education – Central Washington University McNair Thesis: “Pacific Northwest Perspectives on Vocal Jazz Education”

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2013 – Assistant Professor, Department of Native American Studies University of California, Davis 2011 – 2013 UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Music University of California, Berkeley 2010 – 2011 Lecturer, Department of American Indian Studies San Francisco State University 2008 – 2009 State Scholar and Community Liaison, for the Smithsonian Institution’s traveling exhibition New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music Alaska Humanities Forum, Anchorage, AK 2006 & 2007 Summer Term Instructor, Department of Musicology University of California, Los Angeles 2004 – 2005 Instructor, Department of Music and Dance University of Nevada, Reno

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Music, sound and media studies; 20th and 21st century American music history; Indigenous aesthetics and philosophies; Alaska Native and Circumpolar Inuit cultures, histories, and politics; intertribal and intercultural alliances and cultural production; popular, folk, jazz and improvisational performance cultures; critical race and gender studies; research methodologies and critical pedagogy.

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PUBLICATIONS Books In progress Race Music and the Politics of Indigenous Modernity in Alaska, 1959 – Present

Journal Articles In progress “The ‘Sound of Eskimo,’ Sounding Inuit: Unsettling Colonial Logics of Gender and Race in Tanya Tagaq Gillis’ Reclamation of Nanook of the North” Under with Jessica Gutierrez, “Revitalizing Native American Music and Dance Review Curriculum at UC Davis through Research into Teaching, Student Learning, and Assessment,” for the American Indian Culture and Research Journal special issue “Cultural Competence to Ensure Native American Student Success in Higher Education: Perspectives and Prospects,” ed. Robert Keith Collins. 2013 “A Tribalography of Alaska Native Presence in Academia.” In American Indian Culture and Research Journal 37 (3): 3-27. Special issue “Reducing Barriers to Native American Student Success in Higher Education: Challenges and Best Practices,” ed. Robert Keith Collins. 2012 “Pamyua’s Akutaq: Traditions of Modern Inuit Modalities in Alaska.” In MUSICultures (formerly the Canadian Journal for Traditional Music) 39 (1): 7- 41. Special issue “Indigenous Modernities,” eds. Beverley Diamond, Kati Szego, and Heather Sparling.

Book Chapters Under “Sound Quantum and the Predicament of Audible Indigeneity in Flying Wild Review Alaska.” In Music and Modernity Among First Peoples of North America, eds. Victoria Lindsay Levine and Dylan Robinson. Under “Audiovisualizing Inuit Men and Masculinities On The Ice.” In Critically Contract Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, ed. Joanne Barker. Durham: Duke University Press. 2012 “Voices from the Jazz Wilderness: Locating Pacific Northwest Jazz Choir Culture.” In Jazz/Not Jazz: The Music and Its Boundaries, eds. David Ake, Charles Hiroshi Garrett, and Daniel Goldmark. Berkeley: University of California Press. 219-236.

Reviews 2014 “Aboriginal Music in Contemporary Canada: Echoes and Exchanges by Anna Hoefnagels and Beverley Diamond, eds.” In Yearbook for Traditional Music 46: W1-3. 2007 “Charles Mingus, Music Written for Monterey, 1965 Not Heard … Played in its Entirety at UCLA, Vol. 1 & 2. By Charles Mingus. JWS 013/014 (2 CDs), 2006.” Journal of the Society for American Music 1 (4): 543–546.

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Encyclopedia Entries 2013 “Fitzgerald, Ella.” In The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2nd Edition), ed. Charles Hiroshi Garrett. New York: Oxford University Press. Vol. 3: 305-306. 2013 “Lee, Jeanne.” In The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2nd Edition), ed. Charles Hiroshi Garrett. New York: Oxford University Press. Vol. 5: 81. 2013 “McRae, Carmen.” In The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2nd Edition), ed. Charles Hiroshi Garrett. New York: Oxford University Press. Vol. 5: 331-332. 2013 “Manhattan Transfer.” In The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2nd Edition), ed. Charles Hiroshi Garrett. New York: Oxford University Press. Vol. 5: 360. 2013 “Tiulana, Paul.” In The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2nd Edition), ed. Charles Hiroshi Garrett. New York: Oxford University Press. Vol. 8: 218. 2013 “Vocal Jazz Ensemble.” In The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2nd Edition), ed. Charles Hiroshi Garrett. New York: Oxford University Press. Vol. 8: 377-378.

SELECTED GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND HONORS 2015 – 2016 Faculty Fellow, Hellman Fellows Program, UC Davis ($29,000) 2015 Participant, Faculty Success Program, National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity, tuition funded by the UC Office of the President and the UC Davis HArCS Dean’s Office ($3,250) 2015 Principal Investigator for “Researching and Restoring Native American Song and Dance Repertoire in NAS Performing Arts Curriculum at UC Davis,” Small Grant in Aid of Research, UC Davis Academic Senate Committee on Research ($2,000) 2015 Recipient, UC Davis Native American Community Honoring, Native American Culture Days and Powwow Committees, Cross Cultural Center, UC Davis 2015 Principal Investigator for “UC Arctic Cultural Studies Research Working Group,” with co-PIs Christyann Darwent (UCD Anthropology) and Shari Huhndorf (UCB Ethnic Studies), UC Center for New Racial Studies ($20,024) 2015 Recipient, Undergraduate Instructional Improvement Program Mini-Grant, UC Davis Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning ($500) 2014 – 2015 Key Organizer, Support for Tanya Tagaq Gillis UC Davis Artist Residency and Arctic Indigeneities, Media, and Social Justice symposium programming (in partnership with Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts Executive Director Don Roth and Associate Executive Director & Director of Programming Jeremy Ganter), funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Performing Arts Grant Program ($12,000) 2014 – 2015 Principal Investigator for “Revitalizing Native American Music and Dance Communities at UC Davis,” Open Classroom Challenge Grant, UC Institute for Research in the Arts ($5,000)

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2014 – 2015 Principal Investigator for “Revitalizing NAS 032 ‘Native American Music and Dance’ through Research into Teaching, Student Learning, and Assessment,” Undergraduate Instructional Improvement Program Large Grant, UC Davis Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning ($11,978) 2014 Principal Investigator, Support for Radmilla Cody and Angela Webb Visiting Artists Residency as part of the Responding to IndiVisible: African-Native Lives in the Americas symposium programming, co-sponsored by the UC Institute for Research in the Arts ($1,000) and the UC Center for New Racial Studies ($2,500) 2014 Principal Investigator for “Listening Critically to ‘Quyana Alaska’: An Analysis of Cultural Change, Canon Formation, and Traditional Protocols of Encounter amongst Alaska Native Drum-Dance Groups, 1982-Present,” Small Grant in Aid of Research, UC Davis Academic Senate Committee on Research ($2,000) 2013 – 2014 Recipient, Undergraduate Instructional Improvement Program Mini-Grant, UC Davis Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning ($500) 2013 – 2014 Co-Recipient, Writing Group Grant, UC Davis Humanities Institute ($500) 2011 – 2013 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, UC Berkeley 2010 Recipient, Alaska Native Visionary Award, Alaska Native Heritage Month Board of Directors 2010 Recipient, Student Travel Award, Applied Ethnomusicology Section, Society for Ethnomusicology 2009 Recipient, Research Travel Grant, Graduate Division, UCLA 2008 Recipient, Quality of Graduate Education Program Summer Fellowship, UCLA 2007 – 2008 Principal Investigator for “Contemporary Alaska Native Music and Identity Formation,” Graduate Research Mentorship Award with Professor Olivia Bloechl, Graduate Division, UCLA 2007 Principal Investigator for “Exploring Native American Traces in Twentieth Century Popular Music,” Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Award with Professor Tara Browner, Graduate Division, UCLA 2007 Recipient, Student Travel Award, Society for American Music 2005 – 2007 Recipient, Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship for Diversity, UCLA 2003 Recipient, Dean’s Scholar, College of Liberal Arts, Central Washington University 2001 – 2003 Participant, McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program, Central Washington University 2000 – 2001 Recipient, Knik Tribal Council Higher Education Grant 1999 – 2010 Recipient, Excellence Scholarship, The CIRI Foundation 1998 – 2002 Recipient, Cook Inlet Tribal Council Higher Education Grant

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INVITED LECTURES 2015 “Indigenous Theory in the Americas,” invited panelist for the President’s Roundtable at the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting in Austin, TX. December 3-6. 2015 “Arctic Perspectives on Indigenous Men & Masculinities Studies,” invited lecture for Professor Joanne Barker’s AIS 420 “Native/Indigenous Gender and Feminist Studies” course at San Francisco State University. San Francisco, CA. October 1. 2015 “An Introduction to Tanya Tagaq Gillis in Concert with Nanook of the North,” invited pre-concert lectures for the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. Davis, CA. March 13 and 14. 2014 “An Introduction to ‘Tanya Tagaq in Concert with Nanook of the North’,” invited lecture for the USDA Agricultural Research Service, Western Regional Research Center, Albany, CA. November 20. 2014 “The Politics of Being Recognized as Indigenous,” invited panelist for the Fall 2014 Launch Event for the UC Davis Mellon Research Initiative “Social Justice, Culture, and (In)Security.” October 17. 2014 “Field Guide: An Introduction to Tanya Tagaq Gillis in Concert with Nanook of the North,” invited pre-concert lecture for the Time-Based Art Festival at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. Portland, OR. September 12. 2014 “The ‘Sound of Eskimo,’ Sounding Inuit: Unsettling Colonial Logics of Gender and Race in 20th Century Film Music” invited paper for the Department of Music Ethno/Musicology Forum at the University of California, Davis. May 22. 2014 “The ‘Sound of Eskimo,’ Sounding Inuit: Unsettling Colonial Logics of Gender and Race in 20th Century Film Music” invited paper as the Catherine Parsons Smith Distinguished Lecturer for the Department of Music at the University of Nevada, Reno. May 1. 2013 “Pursuing a Ph.D. in the Arts and Humanities,” invited panelist for the Northern California Forum for Diversity in Graduate Education. October 26. 2013 “The Politics of ‘Sound Quantum’ in Contemporary Afro-Inuit Musical Practice” invited paper for the Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series at the University of California, Santa Cruz. April 22. 2013 “Tanya Tagaq Gillis and Contemporary Inukological Improvisative Practice” invited paper for the Native American Studies Department Colloquium Series, co- sponsored by the Dept of Music, at the University of California, Davis. April 18. 2013 “Tanya Tagaq Gillis and Contemporary Inukological Improvisative Practice” invited paper for the “Why Do We Improvise? Sound, Technology, Interaction” symposium, sponsored by Department of Music at the University of California, Berkeley. March 17. 2012 “Outlining a Tribal Lineage of Alaska Native Scholars” invited seminar for the University of Alaska, Fairbanks Indigenous Studies PhD Program Workshop. Fairbanks, AK. October 15. (via Skype)

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2012 “Sounding Traditions of Inuit Cosmopolitanism in Flying Wild Alaska” invited paper for Columbia University’s Center for Ethnomusicology “Indigenous Music Today Symposium.” New York, NY. September 21. 2012 “Contemporary Alaska Native Music Cultures” invited lecture for Professor Aaron Fox’s MUS V2021 “Music in Contemporary Native America” course at Columbia University. New York, NY. September 20. 2012 “Sounding Traditions of Inuit Cosmopolitanism in Flying Wild Alaska” invited paper for the UC Berkeley Music Studies Colloquium Series, co-sponsored by the Native American Studies Program. Berkeley, CA. September 14. 2012 “Challenges Facing Alaska Native People in Higher Education,” invited studio interview for the live show “Our Alaska” with Dr. Maria Williams and host David Sam. Koahnic Broadcast Corporation (KNBA 90.3 FM). Anchorage, AK. July 27. 2011 “Diverse Pathways of Alaska Native Men and Women with Doctoral Degrees” invited paper for the panel Indigenizing Education: Creating Space and Place for Alaska Native Students at the Elders and Youth Conference hosted by the First Alaskans Institute/Alaska Federation of Natives. Anchorage, AK. October 18. (via Skype)

CONFERENCE ACTIVITY Panels Organized 2015 Indigenizing Academic Soundscapes panel accepted for the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting in Austin, TX. December 3-6. (juried) 2013 Fate, Choice, and Blood: Critically Exhibiting and Listening to Blackness and Indigeneity in North America panel accepted for the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, IN. November 14. (juried) 2013 Visions of Alaska Native Citizenship in the Twentieth Century panel accepted for the Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues Colloquium Series, sponsored by the Native American Studies. Berkeley, CA. April 25.

2011 New Communities of Researchers: Directions for Alaska Native Music Studies roundtable accepted for the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Meeting in Sacramento, CA. May 20. (juried) 2010 Alaska Native Music as Social Activism panel accepted for the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, CA. November 14. (juried) 2009 Restless Natives: The Politics of Contemporary Indigenous American Soundscapes panel accepted for the Society for American Music Annual Meeting in Denver, CO. March 22. (juried)

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Papers Presented 2015 “Revitalizing Native American Music and Dance Curricula through Research into Teaching, Student Learning, and Assessment” paper accepted for the panel Indigenizing Academic Soundscapes at the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting in Austin, TX. December 3-6. (juried) 2015 “Listening Critically to Tanya Tagaq Gillis’ Reclamation of Nanook of the North” paper accepted for the Society for American Music Annual Meeting in Sacramento, CA. March 7. (juried) 2014 “Afro-Inuit Musical Modernities, Sound Quantum, and the Predicament of Audible Indigeneity” paper presentation for the Responding to IndiVisible: African-Native Lives in the Americas symposium, held at the University of California, Davis. November 14. 2013 “The Politics of ‘Sound Quantum’ in Contemporary Afro-Inuit Musical Practice” paper accepted for the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, IN. November 14. (juried) 2013 “The Politics of ‘Sound Quantum’ in Contemporary Afro-Inuit Musical Practice” paper accepted for the Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues Colloquium Series, sponsored by the Native American Studies Program. Berkeley, CA. April 25. 2012 “101 Pathways: the Alaska Native Scholars Project” paper accepted for the panel Alaska Native Scholars: Initiatives for the 21st Century at the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Meeting in Uncasville, CT. June 5. (via Skype) (juried) 2011 “Alaska Native Musical Modernities and the Politics of Self-Determination” paper accepted for the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Meeting in Sacramento, CA. May 20. (juried) 2010 “Yugiyama Usuuq [Awaken Your True Self]: The Politics of Performing Modern Indigeneity in Urban Alaska” paper accepted for the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, CA. November 14. (juried) 2010 “‘Afro-Yupik’ Soundscapes and the Project of Modern Indigeneity in Alaska” paper accepted for the Critical Blackness and Indigeneity Symposium hosted by the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. March 17. 2009 “Generational Perspectives on Contemporary Alaska Native Musical Life” paper accepted for the Society for American Music Annual Meeting in Denver, CO. March 22. (juried) 2008 “Pamyua and the Poetics of ‘Tribal Funk’” paper accepted for the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting in Middletown, CT. November 27. (juried) 2007 “Minor Intrusions upon a ‘Masculine Ethos’: Charles Mingus, Aesthetic Hybridity and Gendering in Jazz Composition” paper accepted for the Society for American Music Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA. March 3. (juried)

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of California, Davis Undergraduate Courses: FRS 002. Thinking Critically About Reality Television in Alaska (Fall 2013, Fall 2014) NAS 032. Native American Music and Dance (Winter 2015; Spring 2016) NAS 125. Performance and Culture Among Native Americans (*Spring 2016) NAS 134. Race, Culture, and Nation (Fall 2014) NAS 135. Gender Construction in Native Societies (Winter 2014) NAS 146. Orientation to Research in Native American Studies (Winter 2014) NAS 191. Native North American Music, Musicians, and Social Consciousness (Fall 2013) NAS 192. Powwow Internship (Winter 2014, Winter 2015, Spring 2015) MUS 129A. Musics of the Americas (Fall 2014, *Winter 2015) Graduate Courses: NAS 202. Music and Modernity in Native North America (Fall 2013) NAS 202. Native American/Indigenous Research Methodologies (Winter 2015) MUS 223. Indigenous Ethno/Musicologies (Winter 2016) San Francisco State University Undergraduate Courses: AIS 420. American Indian Women (Spring 2010; Spring 2011) AIS 320. American Indian Music (Spring 2011) AIS 150. American Indian History in the US (Spring 2011) University of California, Los Angeles Undergraduate Courses: MUS HST 22. Blues in American Music (Summer 2007) MUS HST 75. History of Jazz (Summer 2006) University of Nevada, Reno Undergraduate Courses: MUS 122. A Survey of Jazz (Fall 2004; Spring 2005; Summer 2005) MUS 109. A History of Popular American Song (Summer 2004) *Courses offered through the University Honors Program

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS 2015 – Member, Critical Ethnic Studies Association 2010 – Member, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association 2008 – Member, Society for Ethnomusicology 2008 – Member, International Council for Traditional Music 2005 – Member, Society for American Music 2004 – Member, American Musicological Society

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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Editorial 2015 – 2018 Editorial Board Member, Critical Ethnic Studies Journal 2014 – Assistant Book Review Editor, Yearbook of Traditional Music Journal 2013 – Associate Editor, Arctic Anthropology Journal

Administration 2015 – 2017 Cultural Diversity Committee Member, Society for American Music 2014 – 2016 Vice-President, Northern California Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology 2014 – 2015 Local Arrangements Committee Member, Society for American Music Annual Meeting in Sacramento, CA (March 4 – 8, 2015) 2014 – 2015 Ida Halpern Fellowship Selection Committee, Society for Ethnomusicology

Review/Referee National Museum of Natural History Research Program; Routledge; University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program; Oxford University Press; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grants.

DEPARTMENT/UNIVERSITY/SYSTEMWIDE SERVICE Conferences and Colloquia Organized 2014 – 2015 Arctic Indigeneities, Media, and Social Justice symposium, co-organized with Professor Christyann Darwent (UCD Anthropology), in partnership with the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts and the C.N. Gorman Museum, held at the University of California, Davis. March 12 – 14, 2015. 2014 Responding to IndiVisible: African-Native Lives in the Americas symposium co- organized with Professor Bettina Ng’weno (UCD African American and African Studies) and Steven Baissa (Director of the UCD Cross Cultural Center), held at the University of California, Davis. November 13 – 14, 2014. 2013 – 2014 Coordinator, UC Davis Native American Studies Brown Bag Lecture Series

Administration 2015 – Chair, Designated Emphasis in Native American Studies, UCD 2015 – Member, NAS Faculty Hiring Investment Program Proposal Subcommittee, UCD 2015 – Member, Search Committee for NAS Student Affairs Officer, UCD 2015 – Member, David Risling Intertribal Award Subcommittee, UCD 2015 – Member, Graduate Council’s Student Support Subcommittee, UCD 2015 – Affiliated Faculty, Cultural Studies Graduate Group, UCD 2015 – Affiliated Faculty, Designated Emphasis in Feminist Theory and Research, UCD 2015 – Core Faculty Member, Arctic Cultural Studies Working Group, UC (Systemwide) 2014 – Core Faculty Member, Mellon Research Initiative “Comparative Border Studies: Rights, Containment, Protest,” UCD 2014 – Member, Planning Committee, Women of Color Conference, UCD 2014 – Associate Director, Indigenous Research Center of the Americas, UCD

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2013 – Member, Planning Committee, Mellon Research Initiative “Social Justice, Culture, and (In)Security,” UCD 2013 – Member, Critical Indigenous Studies Research Working Group, UC (Systemwide)

Academic Advising Ph.D. Dissertation Committees 2015 – Luis Chavez (Music, Designated Emphasis in NAS, UC Davis) 2015 – Marcella Ernest (American Studies, University of New Mexico) 2014 – Kelly Eldridge (Anthropology, Designated Emphasis in NAS, UC Davis)

Ph.D. Qualifying Exam Committees 2016 Rebeca Figueroa (Native American Studies), “Re-Membering the Ancestors: Xican@s Reclaiming Indigeneity in the Era of Tribal Sovereignty” 2016 Cuāuhtemōc Lule (Native American Studies), “Moctezuma's Desert: Yaquis, Spaniards, Mexicans, and the Juan Banderas Revolution, 1533-1833” 2015 Luis Chavez (Music), “The Utopia of Borders: On Music, Dance, and Festival in Northern Mexico” 2015 Amanda Modell (Cultural Studies), “Music Genomes: Music Technology and Eugenic/Genetic Discourse” 2014 Sarah Messbauer (Music), “Haïti en Fête and the Restructuring of Cultural Alliances in Twenty-First Century Ottawa”

M.A. Thesis Committees 2016 Jessa Rae Growing Thunder (Native American Studies), “Unci wa: A Fort Peck Grandmothers Transcendence of History”

Faculty Sponsor/Mentor for Undergraduate Research 2015 Stephen Brown-Bourne (Biomedical Engineering Major), “Danza Azteca Wikipedia Article,” University Honors Program Research Project 2015 Emma Lee (Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Major), “Reggae Roots Website” University Honors Program Research Project 2015 Rachel Rockholt (Agriculture and Environmental Education and Native American Studies Double Major), “Pork, The Fountain of Youth: Okinawan Foodways as Cultural Preservation,” NAS 199 Directed Independent Research Project 2015 Derek Blahut (Biological Sciences Major), “Beyond Hollywood Hula: Analyzing Contemporary Reclamations of Mele, Hula, and Aloha,” NAS 199 Directed Independent Research Project 2014 – Valentin Sierra (Native American Studies Major) − 2015-2017 McNair Scholars Program − “Problematic Pedagogy: Examining Cultural Competency, Critical Race Theory and the Presence of Native American Studies Topics in 4th Grade Classrooms,” NAS 199 Directed Independent Research

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2014 – Jessica Gutierrez (Music Major) *Recipient, 2015 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research − 2015-2016 Jr. Research Specialist for grant funded project “Revitalizing NAS 032 Native American Music and Dance” − 2015 “Mapping Cultural Alliances in ‘La Zandunga,” Music Department Senior Thesis Research − 2014-2015 Advanced Research Aide for grant funded project “Revitalizing NAS 032 Native American Music and Dance” − 2014-2015 Mentorships for Undergraduate Research in Agriculture, Letters and Science (MURALS) Program 2014 – 2015 Pamela Pretell (Native American Studies Major) − 2014-2015 Jr. Research Specialist for David Risling Archive Project − 2014 “A History of the UC Davis Powwow,” Native American Studies Honors Thesis Research 2014 Fabian Iglesias (Native American Studies, History, and Spanish Triple Major), “Nationalism and Ballet Folklorico de México de Amalia Hernandez,” NAS 199 Directed Independent Research 2014 Justen Deaton (Native American Studies Major), “War Party’s The Resistance: Decolonizing Methodologies in Native North American Hip Hop Studies,” NAS 199 Directed Independent Research

RELATED PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE Primary instruments: double bass and voice Performance contexts: jazz, Native American, world, orchestral, and choral

TRIBAL AFFILIATIONS Dena’ina (Athabascan [Alaska Native]) Enrolled Member: Knik Tribe Shareholder: Cook Inlet Region, Inc. (CIRI, an Alaska Native Corporation)

REFERENCES Available upon request