This week we are revisiting our season 1 episode where we talked to Dr. Chris Nelson, Associate Professor and now Chair of the Higher Education Department at the University of Denver. She kindly joined us while on her sabbatical to talk with us about her co-authored piece called “(Re)wiring Settler Colonial Practices in Higher Education: Creating Indigenous-Centered Futures Through Considerations of Power, the Social Place, and Space” in the Higher Education Handbook of Theory and Research.  

About our guest: Dr. Chris A. Nelson is from the K’awaika (Laguna Pueblo) and Diné (Navajo) tribal communities. She is an associate professor and department chair for the Higher Education Department. Her scholarship utilizes a blending of critical theory and Indigenous relationality theory to explore the purpose and function of higher education. Harnessing her 20+ years of being a higher education professional and faculty member, she explores how the system of US higher education organizes and operates to better understand how institutions can live out their commitments to supporting Indigenous visibility and presence. 

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