The Native American & Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) meeting will be held May 20-22, 2010, at Westin La Paloma, Tucson. Click here to link to the NAISA website.
Welcome to our program. Please look through our newly redesigned website for information that may be of interest to you.
We offer a full complement of coursework leading to an undergraduate minor and several degrees: a master of arts (MA); a joint MA and law (JD); and the doctorate (Ph.D.) including AIS as a minor area of concentration for other UA Ph.D. degrees. We have four specializations within our curriculum-Education, Law and Policy, Literature, and Societies and Culture--that are supported with coursework and research programs. We plan to add a few more specializations in the near future, beginning with Indigenous Natural Resources Management (coming soon).
We have 30 world-class faculty with various levels of assignments and interactions with AIS, including 13 that are fully or partially funded by AIS and/or other departments such as Anthropology, English, Family and Community Medicine, German Studies, History, Language, Reading and Culture, Law, Linguistics, Natural Resources, Psychology, Sociology, the Udall Center for Public Policy and its Native Nations Institute-and our collaborations keep growing.
AIS is administered as a department, and reports to the Vice President for Research through the Graduate College Dean. The faculty and staff are here to help you become acquainted with our discipline of AIS.or pursue a greater depth of knowledge through graduate study and research. You are invited to contact us for more information.