Indige-FEWSS Faculty & Staff

Faculty Leadership Team 

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Dr. Karletta Chief headshot

Karletta Chief, PhD | Principal Investigator
Director, Indigenous Resilience Center
Professor & Extension Specialist, Department of Environmental Science
Historian, University of Arizona Native Faculty Association
Chair, Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs PhD Minor: Indigenous Food, Energy, & Water Systems
Discipline: Hydrology and soil physics, tribal extension

 

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Benedict J. Colombi headshot

Benedict J. Colombi, PhD | Co-PI
Professor, American Indian Studies Department
Affiliate Professor, the School of Anthropology, School of Geography and Development, School of Natural Resources and the Environment
Discipline: Indigenous resource management and globalization

 

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Murat Kacira, PhD | Co-PI
Director of the Controlled Environment Agriculture Center
Professor, Department of Biosystems Engineering
Discipline: Biosystems Engineering (BE)

 

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Kimberly Ogden headshot

Kimberly Ogden, PhD | Co-PI
Professor, Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Biosystems Engineering
Discipline: Bioreactor design for water purification, food and fuel

 

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Erin Ratcliff headshot

Erin L. Ratcliff, PhD | Co-PI
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering
Discipline: Thin film organic semiconductors for solar energy

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Robert Arnold headshot

Robert Arnold | Senior Personnel
Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Civil and Architectural Engineering and Management
Discipline: Wastewater reclamation and reuse

 

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Vasiliki (Vicky) Karanikola headshot

Vasiliki (Vicky) Karanikola, PhD | Senior Personnel
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering

Discipline: water treatment 

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Benita Litson | Senior Personnel
Director of Diné College Land Grant Office
Discipline: Tribal College Education, Extension Education

 

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Kelly Simmons-Potter, PhD | Senior Personnel
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Optical Sciences, Materials Science and Engineering
Director of Graduate Studies
Discipline: Photovoltaic materials, devices and systems aging and reliability

 

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Valerie Shirley headshot

Valerie Shirley, PhD | Senior Personnel
Associate Professor, Teaching, Learning & Sociocultural Studies, American Indian Studies - GIDP
Discipline: Indigenous, teacher and multicultural education

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External Evaluator

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Jennifer Fields headshot

Jennifer Fields, M.A. | External Evaluator
Director, Office of Societal Impact
Discipline: Evaluation, assessment, and education research


Staff

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Torran Anderson headshot

Torran Anderson | Community Engagement Coordinator 
Arizona Institutes for Resilience | ENR2 Building | 1064 E Lowell Street PO Box 210137 Tucson, AZ 85721-0137
(520) 621-3794
torrananderson@arizona.edu

 

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Cara Duncan Shopa, M.A. | Program Coordinator
Arizona Institutes for Resilience | ENR2 Building | 1064 E Lowell Street PO Box 210137 Tucson, AZ 85721-0137
(520) 621-3791
caraduncan@arizona.edu