Welcome VISITING PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES
WELCOME DR. VANESSA ESQUIVIDO
VISITING PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES
FALL 2019-SPRING 2020
Vanessa Esquivido (enrolled Nor Rel Muk Wintu, also Hupa and Xicana) is a Ph.D. candidate in Native American Studies at UC Davis– she will be Dr. Esquivido summer 2019. Esquivido graduated from Sac State in 2011 with her BA in Anthropology and Ethnic Studies with a concentration in Native American Studies. Her research focuses on California Indian Nations, Native Women, Environmental sovereignty, NAGPRA, and Northwestern California Indian Basketry. Her dissertation focuses a tribal ethnohistory of the Nor Rel Muk Wintu and their struggles to obtain federal recognition. Much of her work is rooted in activism in the urban Native communities.