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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.Show Less
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Courses
- MNNAMany Nations of Native America
- RDMResearch Design and Methodology
- FAISFundamentals of American Indian Studies
- NAFNative Americans in Film
- CIEMICreativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Mainstream and Indigenous
- CAIIContemporary American Indian Issues
- NRMNCNatural Resource Management in Native Communities
- NWCCNon-Western Cultures and Civilizations
Grants
- NRT-INFEWS: Indigenous Food, Energy, and Water Security and Sovereignty
Co-Investigator (COI)
2017
$3.0M
Active - Water Resources Technical Training Program for American Indians and Alaska Natives
Co-Investigator (COI)
2015
$485.8K
- Water Resources Technician Training Program
Co-Investigator (COI)
2014
$86.8K
- Indigenous Google-Mapping on the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia
Principal Investigator (PI)
2014
$8.6K
- 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