Students

I have the pleasure and the privilege to work with smart, talented and energetic university students at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Currently, I do not have the capacity to bring on new graduate students.

I am advising the following students (listed in alphabetical order by last name).

Mickki Garrity is an MS student working on understanding Nishnabe perspectives on beaver and wild rice relationships.

Savannah Jenkins is a PhD student working to understand the Indigenous relationships between natural resource management and berries.

Jacey Lamar is an MS student working to understand changes in wild rice ecosystems and Indigenous peoples of the region through archival and historical research.

Melonee Nisogaabokwe Montano is an MS student working to support the return of Indigenous cultural burning to the Lake Superior basin.

I am also a mentor and committee member for the following students.

Ryan Hellenbrand is a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin Madison working on a project that explores environmental history in Wisconsin with an emphasis on understating the American Indian and German influences in forestry.

Hannah Jo King is a Natural Resources Science and Management PhD student working on a dissertation focused on African American and Indigenous ecological knowledge. She is also working with our Kawe Gidaa-naanaagadawendaamin Manoomin [First we must consider Manoomin / Psiη (wild rice)] project.

Phoebe Young is a PhD student in American Studies working on food sovereignty issues and Indigenous youth and community empowerment.

Selena Bernier is a PhD student in Anthropology.

Congratulations to the following students I have worked with that have graduated! (listed in approximate order of graduation)

Kate Flick received her PhD looking at the complex relationships between environmental and human community restoration. I co-advised Kate with Rebecca Montgomery.

Thomas Kenote‘s MS thesis focused on ethical Indigenous research and Indigenous phenology. Rebecca Montgomery was his primary advisor.

Elizabeth Mejicano’s MS thesis focused on diversity within federal resource management agencies. I co-advised Elizabeth with Michael Kilgore.

Macey Flood received her PhD in the Program of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine. Her dissertation is titled, “Simple Medicines: Land, Health, and Power in the 19th-century Ojibwe western Great Lakes.” I served on her committee and worked closely with her on environmental history.

Jessica Lackey was an MS student who worked on a project that looks at partnership and joint management between American Indian tribes and the US government at the Medicine Wheel National Historic Landmark in Wyoming.

Madeline Nyblade was a PhD student in Earth Sciences working with our Kawe Gidaa-naanaagadawendaamin Manoomin [First we must consider Manoomin / Psiη (wild rice)] project.

Gabriela Menomin was a MS student who on incorporated Potawatomi ecological knowledge into the restoration of lands in Wisconsin. I co-advised Gabby with Rebecca Montgomery.

Zachary Erickson is a Graduate the Department of Forestry and Wildland Resources at Cal Poly Humboldt and worked on costal silviculture, forest restoration, and university/tribal forest management partnerships.

Roger Faust was a Conservation Sciences PhD student who focused on wildlife ecology, Indigenous perspectives, and health in the upper Great Lakes.

Florencia Pech Cardenas was a PhD student who worked on international development, Indigenous natural resource management, and Indigenous knowledge. I co-advised Florencia with Kristen Nelson.