She/Her/Hers • Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies • Dalai Lama Fellows • Mindful Campus Program
Natalie Avalos is an assistant professor in the Ethnic Studies department at 麻豆影院. She is an ethnographer of religion who received her Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara with a special focus on Native American and Indigenous Religious Traditions and Tibetan Buddhism. She is currently working on her manuscript titled Decolonizing Metaphysics: Transnational Indigeneities and Religious Refusal, which explores urban Indian and Tibetan refugee religious life as decolonial praxis. She is a Chicana of Apache descent, born and raised in the Bay Area.
Studies: Mindful Campus Program