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Benedict J. Colombi, Ph.D. is Faculty Director of the University of Arizona’s Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs (GIDPs) and Associate Professor of American Indian Studies and Affiliate Associate Professor of the School of Anthropology, School of Geography and Development, and School of Natural Resources and Environment. He also holds a Faculty Appointment with the Institute of Environment, a center for disciplinary and interdisciplinary environmental and climate change research at the University of Arizona. He is the Past Program Chair of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Anthropology & Environment section, Past Faculty Fellow with The Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, and is a Fellow with The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA). In 2014, he served as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar conducting ethnographic fieldwork with Indigenous communities along Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.

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Courses
  • MNNA
    Many Nations of Native America

  • RDM
    Research Design and Methodology

  • FAIS
    Fundamentals of American Indian Studies

  • NAF
    Native Americans in Film

  • CIEMI
    Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Mainstream and Indigenous

  • CAII
    Contemporary American Indian Issues

  • NRMNC
    Natural Resource Management in Native Communities

  • NWCC
    Non-Western Cultures and Civilizations

Grants
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    NRT-INFEWS: Indigenous Food, Energy, and Water Security and Sovereignty

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2017

    $3.0M
    Active
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    Water Resources Technical Training Program for American Indians and Alaska Natives

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2015

    $485.8K
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    Water Resources Technician Training Program

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2014

    $86.8K
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    Indigenous Google-Mapping on the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2014

    $8.6K
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    CNH: Strengthening Resilience of Arid Region Riparian Corridors: Ecohydrology and Decision Making in the Sonoran and San Pedro Watersheds

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2010

    $1.5M
News
  • Endangered Language Loss Calls for Preservation, Revitalization

    2017

  • January 2014: Month in Review

    2014

  • UA Anthropologist Earns Fulbright to Continue Language Preservation in Russia

    2014

  • UA, Google Creating Digital Maps to Help Preserve Cultural Heritage of Russian Community

    2014

  • How Climate Change Impacts Indigenous Communities

    2013

Publications (28)
Recent
  • One river unites Indigenous peoples across the Americas: A cultural exchange on the legacy of hydroelectric dam impacts on the Colorado and Tocantins rivers

    2021

  • Tribes and water management in the Colorado River, US.

    2021

  • Indigenous Food, Energy, and Water Security and Sovereignty (Indige-FEWSS)

    2020

  • Incorporating social-ecological considerations into basin-wide responses to climate change in the Colorado River Basin

    2019

  • Colorado River Report, Tribes and Water Management in the Colorado River

    2019

  • Indigenous Data Sovereignty

    2019

  • Googling Indigenous Kamchatka: Mapping New Collaborations

    2018

  • Indigenous Food, Energy, and Water Security and Sovereignty (Indige-FEWSS): Developing a new training track for students working in indigenous communities

    2018

  • Field Trip Report, One River Unites Indigenous Peoples from across the Americas: A Cultural Exchange on the Legacy of Hyrdoelectric Dam Impacts

    2018

  • Incorporating Socio-Ecological Considerations into Basin-Wide Responses to Climate Change in the Colorado River Basin

    2018

  • Bringing Indigenous Kamchatka to Google Earth: Collaborative Digital Mapping with the Itelmen Peoples

    2016

  • Salmon nation: climate change and tribal sovereignty

    2016

  • Climate change and Indigenous peoples in the United States

    2016

  • The Inverse Relationship between Salmon Biodiversity and Indigenous Peoples’ Political Standing Directionally across the North Pacific

    2016

  • Insights on adaptive capacity: Three indigenous Pacific Northwest historical narratives

    2014

  • Here and there: The effects of upriver dams on Indigenous peoples

    2014

  • A Paradox of Plenty: Renewable Energy on Native Lands

    2014

  • Two rivers: The politics of wild salmon, indigenous rights and natural resource management

    2013

  • The economics of dam building: Nez Perce Tribe and global-scale development

    2012

  • Adaptive capacity as cultural practice

    2012

  • Keystone nations: Indigenous peoples and salmon across the north Pacific

    2012

  • Salmon and the adaptive capacity of Nimiipuu (Nez Perce) culture to cope with change

    2012

  • Indigenous peoples, large dams, and capital-intensive energy development: a view from the lower Colorado River

    2010

  • The Nez Perce Tribe vs. elite-directed development in the lower Snake River basin: The struggle to breach the dams and save the salmon

    2006

  • Dammed in region six: The Nez Perce tribe, agricultural development, and the inequality of scale

    2005

  • The Nez Perce Tribe Vs. Elite-directed Development in the Lower Snake River Watershed: The Struggle to Breach the Dams and Save the Salmon

    2005

  • Medicine crossing

    2001

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