Language documentation is a form of scholarship that requires significant community engagement. In his work, Scott AnderBois seeks to support Indigenous scholars, and also contribute to capacity building in Indigenous communities, involving native speakers throughout the research process.​

Focus: epistemologies of practice and the dynamics of knowledge in pluralist societies marked by power inequalities. Her current interests are science and technology policy and higher education policy in the Global South; the interaction between the technosciences, Indigenous knowledges, and knowledges of the enslaved, particularly in Southern Africa, Brazil, the US, and the Caribbean; black transnationalism; and the conjunction of visuality, orality and digitality in African diasporic social movement websites.

Focus: Construction of modern internationalism through its relationships to nationalism, colonialism, and religion; Indigenous Peoples in International and U.S. Law

Mark Cladis's research and teaching pertains to religion, environmental justice, and Indigenous ecologies. His NAIS related courses include "Indigenous Ecologies" and “Religion Gone Wild" (which has a 4-week section focused on North American and Australian Indigenous spiritual/cultural perspectives on the nexus between the human and the more-than-human).

Sarah dAngelo is a theatre artist and educator. Her teaching and creative interests include Indigenous and non-western performance practices, contemporary Native American Theatre, solo performance and multi-media performance. She also specializes in voice and dialects.  In addition to teaching, she continues to work professionally as an actor, director, and dialect coach. She is a member of the Screen Actors Guild, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and Actors' Equity Association. 

Several of Bathsheba Demuth’s courses, including her Arctic history seminar, her global environmental history lecture, and her energy history lecture, center Indigenous epistemologies and knowledge practices. Her scholarship strives for the same, while creating work accessible to a broad audience both within and outside Native communities. 

Kevin Escudero's research and teaching focus on Indigenous and immigrant social movements working toward manifesting a decolonized future for all community members. His current project examines the historical and contemporary political activism of Indigenous and immigrant communities in Oceania, particularly in the Mariana Islands (Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands).

Paja Faudree is a linguistic anthropologist whose research interests include language and politics, Indigenous literary and social movements, the interface between music and language, the ethnohistory of New World colonization, and the global marketing of Indigenous rights discourses, Indigenous knowledge, and plants. She received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and came to Brown following a Harper-Schmidt Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. She is affiliated with Brown's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Native American and Indigenous Studies, the Program in Science and Technology Studies, and Development Studies. Professor Faudree teaches courses on language and society, social movements in Latin America, language and politics, language and music, and the anthropology of drugs. She is also a published poet and playwright, and holds an MFA from Brown's literary arts program.

Professor Fisher's research and teaching relate primarily to the cultural and religious history of colonial America and the Atlantic world, including Native Americans, religion, material culture, and Indian and African slavery and servitude. He is currently finishing a history of Native American enslavement in the English colonies and the United States between Columbus and the American Civil War, tentatively titled America Enslaved: The Rise and Fall of Indian Slavery in the English Atlantic and the United States. He is also the principal investigator of the Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas project, which is a tribal community-centered collaborative project that seeks to create a public, centralized database of Native slavery throughout the Americas and across time. 

Focus: international circulation of Indigenous Andean music and imagery

Jessaca Leinaweaver's research with Indigenous Andean Quechua speakers in southern Peru has focused on families, children, elders, and rural-to-urban migration. She's also published about how Latin Americans, including Native Latin Americans, are represented in Spain.​

Amanda's research and teaching focus on places that express convergences of and challenges from rapid change in climate and human systems. She has collaborated with Traditional Owners in Australia, Indigenous peoples of the Arctic, and communities in southern and western Africa.

Iris Montero's research focuses on Indigenous epistemologies and memory keeping practices of the Nahua peoples, from pre-Columbian to contemporary times. Her courses "The Nature of Conquest" and "Visions and Voices of Indigenous Mexico" center the revalorization of Indigenous ways of knowing in and beyond Indigenous communities. She is also invested in linguistic revitalization, particularly amongst Nahuatl speakers in Mexico and the United States.

Focus: Indigenous Andean history

Robert Preucel’s research focuses on the history and significance of archaeological resources related to Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico. He began work with Cochiti in 1996 and together with the tribe they gathered information on their Pueblo Revolt village, Hanat Kotyiti, which resulted in a land return in 2004.​

Jeffrey Proulx's research focuses on addressing health outcomes in underserved communities through culturally-adapted mindfulness classes that reflect the cultures of the people he is serving. Although Dr. Proulx's work is designed to address health outcomes, such as diabetes and dementia in Native American communities, his work is also designed to highlight cultural methods of living and healing as a means of cultural revival.

Patricia Rubertone’s research and teaching navigates the intersections of anthropology (especially, anthropological archaeology), and history to explore Indigenous and settler colonial experiences, landscape and memory, and representations of modernity in the Native Northeast. Her research on Providence challenges myths of Native American disappearance and urban life by re-envisioning this city’s past through the everyday experiences of Indigenous people. She teaches a course on “Settler Colonialism in the Native Northeast” about the intertwined histories of the region’s peoples as viewed from the perspectives of settler colonialism and survivance. Her course “Archaeology of Settler Colonialism” considers settler colonialism and resistances within a global comparative framework with emphasis on North America.

Focus: 18th-century European colonialism, Brazil, South America, transnational history of knowledge-making in the late-eighteenth-century Atlantic world and the connections between plantation cultures of the eighteenth-century Caribbean and Brazilian natural history, including sugar, indigo, coffee, and cotton. 

Andrew Scherer is an archaeologist and biological anthropologist whose research focuses on the pre-colonial Maya of Mexico and Guatemala. He currently co-directs archaeological research at the site of Lacanja Tzeltal, Chiapas, Mexico, which involves collaboration with the local Indigenous community of the same name. Lacanja Tzeltal was the seat of the Sak Tz'i' (White Dog) dynasty in the first millenium A.D.. This work is part of a two decades long effort to reconstruct the dynamic history of Maya kingdoms of the Usumacinta River region.

Emily’s work is focused on understanding the mechanistic details of solar energy harvesting across a range of energy, time, and length scales. She develops state-of-the-art optical probes to create ‘molecular movies’ of light activated chemical reaction dynamics in novel substrates with applications to catalysis and renewable energy. Her work encourages Indigenous knowledge and the stewardship of Native Lands for community-driven solutions towards a just and equitable energy transition. Emily (Osage) also practices culturally sensitive approaches towards mentorship in chemistry-related disciplines for Native and non-Native students alike.

Parker VanValkenburgh is engaged in Native American and Indigenous Studies through work on the ways in which indigeneity (primarily, in western South America) has been produced through colonial discourse. He is particularly engaged in understanding colonial period forced resettlement and its long-term effects on Indigenous communities, as well as in the politics of archaeology in Peru.