AIS Faculty
Eric Cheyfitz
Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters
Department of English
Interests: American Indian Literature; Federal Indian Law
157 Goldwin Smith
Ithaca, NY 14853
t. 607.255.3546
f. 607.257.5384
etc7@cornell.edu
For more information visit Eric Cheyfitz's website.
Laura Donaldson (Cherokee)
Associate Professor
Department of English
American Indian Program
Interests: American Indian Literature and Culture; Indian Women's Literature,
postcolonial theory; Religion, Gender, Race and Law
145 Goldwin Smith
Ithaca, NY 14853
t. 607.255.9312
f. 607.255.6661
ld49@cornell.edu
For more information visit Laura Donalson's website.
Charles Geisler
Professor
Director of Graduate Studies -
Department of Development Sociology
237 Warren Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
t. 607.255.1691
f. 607.254.2896
ccg2@cornell.edu
For more information visit Charles Geisler's website.
Angela Gonzales (Hopi)
Assistant Professor
Department of Development Sociology
Interests: Sociology of Identity; U.S. Indian Law and Policy; Indigenous intellectual
and cultural property rights
339 Warren Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
t. 607.255.1795
f. 607.254.2896
aag27@cornell.edu
For more information visit Angela Gonzales's website.
Kurt Jordan
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology - American Indian Program
210 McGraw Hall - Anthropology
Ithaca, NY 14853
t. 607.255.3109
f. 607.255.3747
kj21@cornell.edu
For more information visit Kurt Jordan's website.
Jane Mt. Pleasant (Tuscarora)
Associate Professor
Department of Horticulture
Director - American Indian Program
Interests: Plants and human well being; Traditional and Iroquois agriculture; Indigenous ecological
knowledge
450 Caldwell Hall - AIP
Plant Science #15B - Horticulture
Ithaca, NY 14853
t. 607.255.1755/4670
f. 607.255.6246
jm21@cornell.edu
For more information visit Jane Mt. Plwasant's website.
Jon Parmenter
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Interests: Iroquois Social and Political History; Northeastern Algonquians, Goverance, Settler
Relations
304 McGraw Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
t. 607.254.1876
f. 607.255.0469
jwp35@cornell.edu
For more information visit Jon Parmenter's website.
Audra Simpson (Mohawk)
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology & American Indian Program
Interests: Political self-designation, self-description and subjectivity; Formations of
citizenship and nationhood
425A Caldwell Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
t. 607.255.7239/7246
f. 607.255.6246
as447@cornell.edu
For more information visit Audra Simpson's website.
Chris Andronicos (Sandia Pueblo)
Associate Professor
Geology, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Interests: continent formations, performs research on the Canadian Cordillera, the Precambrian
orogenic belt of the southwestern United States, the Rio Grande Rift, the Laramide orogen, and the
Himalayan-Tibet orogenic system.
4126 Snee Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
t. 607.254.8331
ca98@cornell.edu
For more information visit Chris Andronicos' website.
Troy Richardson (Saponi and Tuscarora)
Assistant Professor
Department of Education
415 Kennedy Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
t. 607.254.4681
f. 607.255.7905
tar37@cornell.edu
For more information visit Troy Richardson's website.
Jolene Rickard
Associate Professor
Department of the History of Art
jkr33@cornell.edu
© American Indian Program - Cornell University
450 Caldwell Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853 t. 607.255.6587 f. 607.255.6246