Kelsey John

  • Assistant Professor
  • NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS STUDIES
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Office Location: Ketchum 164

Pronouns: she / her / hers

 

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Education

Ph.D., Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York - Cultural Foundations of Education, 2019
M.S., Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York - Cultural Foundations of Education, 2017
C.A.S., Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York - Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies, 2016 
B.A., Colgate University, Hamilton, New York - Educational Studies, 2013

Research Interests

Indigenous methodologies, human-animal interaction, equine assisted services, Indigenous feminisms, Indigenous and Native American Studies, multispecies ethnography 

Professional Affiliations

  
 

Kelsey Dayle John (Dine虂) is a member of the Navajo Nation and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies. She studies interspecies learning in tribal communities, with a focus on equine-human interactions and Native American horse cultures/histories. She finds her theoretical locations within BIPOC feminisms, Indigenous studies, human-animal interaction, Dine虂 Studies, and foundations of education. Previously, Kelsey taught in the Dine虂 Studies department at Navajo Technical University on Navajo Nation and the Gender and Women's Studies and American Indian Studies departments at the University of Arizona. Kelsey is the founder and organizer of Horses Connecting Communities, a learning community that supports horse education on the Navajo Nation. 

Selected Publications

Peer Reviewed Book Chapters

John, K.D. (2024). 鈥榃hen I run I鈥檓 not half, I鈥檓 Din茅: The pluriverse in connectedness of movement. In Romeo Garcia, Ellen Cushman, Damian Baca (Eds.), Literacies of/from the Pluriverse: Tools for Perseverance and Livable Futures.

John, K.D. & +Shieldcheif, M. (2023). Wild: An American Indian historical analysis. In B. Minteer & H.W. Greene (Eds.), A Wilder Kingdom: Rethinking the Wild in Zoos, Wildlife Parks, and Beyond.

John, K.D. (2023). 鈥楾he horse is Indigenous to North America: Why silencing the horse is so important to the settler project', In R. De Vos (Ed.), Decolonising Animals, Sydney University Press.

John, K.D. (2022). What does it mean to be educated? In P. Vallejo. & V. Werito, (Eds), Transforming Din茅 Education: Innovations in Pedagogy and Practice (pp. 101-108). University of Arizona Press.

Stallones Marshall, L. & John, K.D. (2021). We are still here: Teaching Native American social justice in the K-12 classroom. In R.W. Evans (Ed.), Handbook on Teaching Social Issues (pp. 145-154). Information Age Publishing.

John, K.D. (2019). Animals. In Keywords in Radical Philosophy of Education. Brill-Sense.

*John, K.D. (2018). Rez Ponies and Confronting Sacred Junctures in Decolonizing and Indigenous Education. In L.T. Smith, E. Tuck, & K. W. Yang (Eds.), Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education (pp. 50-61). New York: Routledge.

John, K.D. (2017). 鈥楢re you a feminist epistemologist?鈥 In S. Travis, A.M. Kraehe, E.J. Hood, & T.E. Lewis (Eds.), Pedagogies in the Flesh: Teaching, learning, and the embodiment of sociocultural differences in education, (pp. 145-149). Palgrave MacMillan.

*John, K.D. & Ford, D. (2017). The rural is nowhere: Bringing Indigeneity and urbanism into educational research. In W. M. Reynolds (Ed.), Forgotten places in the new gilded age of greed and insensitivity (pp. 3-13). New York: Peter Lang.

Refereed Journal Articles

John, K.D. (forthcoming). Relationships with horses and humans: Smith鈥檚 legacy. In Qualitative Research Journal. DOI: 10.1108/QRJ-03-2024-0070

John, K.D. (in press). What it鈥檚 like to be an off-rez rural Indian?: Adding complexity to place and education. In Special Issue In Rural Educator.

John, K.D., & John, G.H. (2023). A Review of Indigenous Perspectives in Animal BioSciences. Annual Review of Animal Biosciences, 11, 307-319.

John, K.D. & Williams-Brown, K. (2019). Settler/Colonial Violences: Black and Indigenous Coalition Possibilities through Intergroup Dialogue Methodology. In American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 43(2)135-156.

John, K.D. (2019). Animal Colonialism鈥擨llustrating Intersections Between Animal Studies and Settler Colonial Studies through Din茅 Horsemanship. Humanimalia鈥擜 Journal of Human/Animal Interface Studies, 19(2). Retrieved from:

Jaffee, L.J. & John, K.D. (2018). Disabling the earth: Reframing disability justice in conversation with Indigenous theory and activism. Disability and the Global South: Special Issue Intersecting Indigeneity, Colonisation and Disability, 5(2), 1407-1429.

Co-Authored Books

Co-author, Black | Indigenous 100s Collective (2023). Say, Listen: Writing with Care. NP: Press.