Series Editors:

Dina Gilio-Whitaker - [email protected]

Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes) is a lecturer of American Indian Studies at California State University San Marcos, and an independent educator in American Indian environmental policy and other issues. She teaches courses on environmentalism and American Indians, traditional ecological knowledge, religion and philosophy, Native women’s activism, American Indians and sports, and decolonization. Dina is the author of two books, including the award-winning As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice (Beacon Press, 2019). She is also an award-winning journalist, with her work appearing in Indian Country Today, the Los Angeles Times, Time.com, The Boston Globe, and many more. 

Clint Carroll - [email protected]

Clint Carroll is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, he works at the intersections of Indigenous studies, anthropology, and political ecology. His first book, Roots of Our Renewal: Ethnobotany and Cherokee Environmental Governance (University of Minnesota Press, 2015), explores how tribal natural resource managers navigate the material and structural conditions of settler colonialism, and how recent efforts in cultural revitalization inform such practices through traditional Cherokee governance and local environmental knowledge. He is an active member of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology. He also serves on the editorial boards for Cultural Anthropology and Environment and Society.

Joy Porter - [email protected]

Joy Porter is University of Birmingham 125th Anniversary Chair, Professor of Indigenous and Environmental History and Principal Investigator of the Treatied Spaces Research Group. She is the Principal Investigator for “Brightening the Covenant Chain: Revealing Cultures of Diplomacy Between the Iroquois and the British Crown” (2021–2025) and “Historic Houses Global Connections: Revisioning Two Northern Ireland Historic Houses and Estates” (2024-2027).  Joy has over 65 publications, including four research monographs and three other books. She received the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers Writer of the Year Award for The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and a Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award for To be Indian: The Life of Iroquois-Seneca Arthur Caswell Parker (Oklahoma, 2001). Her latest book is Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett (Bloomsbury, 2021). She was born in Derry, in the North of Ireland.

Associate Editor: 

Matthias Wong - [email protected]

Matthias Wong is Senior Tutor at the National University of Singapore and an Associate of the Treatied Spaces Research Group at the University of Birmingham. His research is in the environmental humanities, specifically in the use of digital methods to recover Indigenous presence in historical sources such as maps and treaties, and in reconnecting Indigenous collections in museums with their source communities. He co-leads the “Green Toolkit for a New Space Economy” project, which aims to widen the space sector’s understanding of sustainability to include the cultural and social dimensions. His collaborators include King’s Digital Lab at King’s College London, The Alan Turing Institute, and Nordamerika Native Museum Zurich. His research interests are on the process of meaning-making, particularly in understanding senses of time and place, and on the repercussions of trauma and disruption. His research on early modern futurity has been published in Historical Research, and he teaches courses on cultural astronomy, public history, and digital history.

Advisory Board 

Professor Ann McGrath, Australian National University
Professor Camilla Brattland, Arctic University of Norway (UIT)
Dr Dalo Njera, Mzuzu University
Dr Kalpana Giri, The Regional Community Forestry Training Center for Asia and the Pacific (RECOFTC)
Professor Simone Athayde, Florida International University
Professor Joe Bryan, University of Colorado Boulder
Dr Kanyinke Sena, Egerton University
Professor Kyle Powys Whyte, University of Michigan
Professor Dale Turner, University of Toronto
Professor Michael Hathaway, Simon Fraser University
Professor Paige West, Columbia University
Professor Pratik Chakrabarti, University of Houston
Professor Rauna Kuokkanen, University of Lapland
Professor Shannon Speed, University of California Los Angeles
Professor Mike Dockry, University of Minnesota