The Montana University System possesses a formidable combination of faculty expertise and unique programs that form the basis of AIGPI. While only the Affiliated Faculty Fellows are listed below, experts from across the entire Montana University System representing a broad range of fields including Economics, Public Health, and Forestry among others, are enlisted to work on specific projects as needed.

 Heather Cahoon, PhD (Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes)

Associate Professor, Native American Studies (UM)

• Tribal sovereignty and self-governing rights
• Tribal governing structures and policy
• Tribal member health
• Social Determinants of Health in Indian Country
• Tribal member social, civil, and criminal justice issues

Annjeanette Belcourt PhD(Blackfeet, Chippewa, Mandan and Hidatsa)
Professor, Psychology (UM)

• Psychology
• Native American Resiliency
• Diversity

 Vernon Grant, PhD (Blackfeet)

Assistant Research Professor, Center for American Indian and Rural Health Equity (MSU)

• Obesity, sleep, and physical activity in Native American
  populations, especially youth

Kekek Jason Stark, JD (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe)

Assistant Professor, Law (UM)
Co-Director, Indian Law Program
Co-Director, Margery Hunter Brown Indian Law Clinic

• Tribal Law
• Federal Indian Law
• Treaty Law
• Tribal Natural Resource Law

Christina Barsky, PhD, MPA

Assistant Professor, Public Administration and Policy (UM)

• State and local government
• Poverty policy
• Public budgeting
• Election administration
• Representative bureaucracy
• Policy/program research and evaluation
• Community and economic development

Pippa Browde, JD
Professor, Law (UM)

• Tax policy on issues of multi-jurisdictional taxation between
  states and tribes
• State/tribal tax revenue
  sharing/tax administration compacts
• Tax policy and economic development within Indian Country

Blakely Brown, PhD
Professor, Heath and Human Performance (UM)

• Health disparities
• Food sovereignty, systems and security Obesity and
  chronic disease prevention in Native Americans
• Maternal-child health
• Native American higher education
• Nutrition and physical activity
• Participatory evaluation
• Community-based participatory, co-design research methods

Wade Davis, PhD
Professor, Native American Studies and History (UM)

• 19th-20th century Native history
• Research methods in Native history and law
• Health care in Native communities

S. Neyooxet Graymorning, PhD(Northern Arapaho)
Professor, Native American Studies and Anthropology (UM)

• Indigenous sovereignty issues Contemporary Native American issues
• Native American Language restoration and retention

Jordan Gross, JD
Professor, Law (UM)

• Criminal Jurisdiction in Indian County
• Tribal Court Criminal Procedure under the Indian
  Civil Rights Act, Tribal Law and Order Act, and the
  Violence Against Women Act of 2013
• International Comparative Criminal Procedure
• Bail and Pretrial Detention
• Legal Ethics

Neha A. John-Henderson, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychology (MSU)
Director, Stress, Adversity, Resilience and Health Lab

• Psychological stress and health
• Adversity and resilience
• Historical trauma and heath
• Childhood trauma and adult health
• Sleep and health

Mizuki Miyashita, PhD
Professor of Linguistics (UM)

• Community-Based Research in Native American Linguistics
• Applied linguistics in Native American communities
• Language Documentation and Revitalization

Twila Old Coyote, MS (Crow, White Clay)
Director, SEA Change (UM)

• Youth
• Academic achievement gaps

Venessa Simonds, PhD (Crow, Blackfeet)
Associate Professor, Department of Health and Human Development (MSU)

• Heath Literacy
• Indigenous health
• Participatory Research

Ashley Trautman, MSW, JD
Associate Professor and Chair, School of Social Work (UM)

• Trauma informed systems of care
• Youth mental health and resilience
• Anti-racist & decolonizing policy and practice