National Research Advisory Board
Dr. Kathy Deer In Water
Dr. Kathy Deer In Water is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and Chief Program Officer of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES). She serves as the Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Lighting the Pathway to Faculty Careers for Natives in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics project.
Dr. Douglas Medin
Dr. Douglas Medin, Emeritus Professor in Psychology and of Education and Social Policy, engages in collaborative research that is targeted towards Native children in the Seattle, Washington area and the Chicago Indian community. Dr. Medin and his colleagues are currently studying the role of culture as it relates to knowledge and reasoning about the natural world. His 2014 book with Megan Bang (Ojibwe) is titled, "Who's asking? Native Science, Western Science, and Science Education."
Dr. Janet Page-Reeves
Dr. Janet Page-Reeves is a Research Associate Professor in the Office for Community Health in the Department of Family & Community Medicine. She is a Cultural Anthropologist with a strong background in theoretically grounded research and has used ethnographically inspired methods to conduct collaborative research and engage in applied work in Hispanic and Native communities in Bolivia and New Mexico.
Dr. Nicholas James Reo
Dr. Nicholas James Reo is a citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. He is an Associate Professor of Native American and Environmental Studies at Dartmouth College. Dr. Reo currently studies Indigenous knowledge and ecological stewardship on Indigenous lands, blending ecological, anthropological and Indigenous methodologies, often via tribal-community partnerships.
Dr. Daniel Wildcat
Dr. Daniel Wildcat is a member of the Mvskoke/Euchee Nation of Oklahoma and Indigenous and American Indian Studies professor in Natural and Social Sciences at Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas. He is the author of several books, including, Red Alert: Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge (2009), in which he suggests the current climate crises requires “indigenuity,” Indigenous ingenuity.