Biography:
Dr. Natchee Barnd is a comparative and critical ethnic studies scholar whose work bridges ethnic studies, cultural geography, and Indigenous studies. His research examines how race, space, and Indigenous geographies shape and challenge settler colonial landscapes. These themes were explored in his award-winning book Native Space. He has published widely across journals and edited volumes on topics including cartography, pedagogy, popular culture, and Indigenous spatial practices. Dr. Barnd also serves as editor of the Ethnic Studies Review, supports community based and student led learning through projects like the Social Justice Tour, and continues to build relationships with Native Nations in the Santa Barbara region. His current projects span ecological philosophies, Chicano Indigenous educational histories, nationwide Ethnic Studies program analysis, Indigenous coastal studies, and a new book on “race as space.”
Current Project:
Dr. Barnd’s ongoing work includes research on Indigenous relationships to oceans and coastlines, an investigation into the history of a Chicano Indigenous college in Oregon, and a nationwide survey examining the structure and development of Ethnic Studies programs
Education:
Ph.D. University of California, San Diego
M.A. University of California, San Diego
M.A. University of California, Los Angeles
National Student Exchange, University of New Mexico
B.A. Sonoma State University
Publications:
Natchee Barnd, "Art as Placekeeping: Cultural Mapping with Lower Columbia River Aesthetics," Native American and Indigenous Studies, 13(1), forthcoming 2026.
Natchee Barnd, Placekeeping in the Pacific Northwest, Oregon Humanities, Summer 2025.
Natchee Barnd, “Being Bad Guests: Teaching Ethnic Studies with Study Abroad” Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad 37(2) 2025.
Natchee Barnd, “Already Presumed Dead,” Social Text (2023).
Genevieve Carpio, Natchee Barnd, and Laura Barraclough, “Mobilizing Indigeneity and Race Within and Against Settler Colonialism,” Mobilities 17.2 (2022): 1-17.
Natchee Barnd, “Installing Indigenous Geographies,” Urban Geography 44.2 (2022).
McGill, Bonnie, et al., “Words are Monuments: Patterns in US National Park Place Names Perpetuate Settler Colonial Mythologies Including White Supremacy,” People and Nature (2022): 1-18.
Natchee Barnd, “Scripting Change: The Social Justice Tour of Corvallis,” Transformative Approaches to Social Justice Education: Equity and Access in the College Classroom, Eds. Nana Osei-Kofi, Boovy, Bradley, & Furman, Kali. Routledge (2021).
Natchee Barnd, “Permissions are Not Forthcoming,” E-flux Architecture and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2021).
Natchee Barnd and Bradley Boovy, “Activating Affinities,” Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 55.4 (2019).
Natchee Barnd, “What Work Does a Street Sign Do?,” Ed. Michelle Patiño-Flores, Oregon Humanities (2018).
Natchee Barnd, “A Lot to Ask of a Name,” Oregon Humanities (2018).
Barnd, Natchee, et al. “Decolonizing the Map: Recentering Indigenous Mappings, Cartographica 55.3 (2020): 151-162.
Natchee Barnd, Native Space: Geographic Strategies to Unsettle Settler Colonialism, Oregon State University Press (2017).
Natchee Barnd, “Constructing a Social Justice Tour: Pedagogy, Race, and Student Learning Through Geography,” Journal of Geography 115.5 (2016).
