Salish Sea Studies Minor Faculty

(This is a partial and evolving list – faculty from across campus teach courses in the minor.)

Mary Tuti Baker

Assistant Professor, Comparative Indigenous Studies, Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies, Canadian-American Studies. Indigenous politics and future studies, Kanaka Maoli values and practice, politics of decolonization.

Natalie Baloy

Associate Director, Transboundary Initiatives. Interdisciplinary inquiry, research ethics, settler colonialism, regional history.

Dolores Calderon

Associate Professor, Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies. Coloniality, land education, Indigenous epistemologies, and border issues in education.

Josh Cerretti

Associate Professor, History and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Sexuality, race, and gender in modern US history.

Lee Gulyas

Senior Instructor, English. Creative writing, literary nonfiction and journalism, empire and colonialism through literature.

Marco Hatch

Associate Professor, Environmental Science. Marine ecology, clam gardens, ecocultural restoration.

James Helfield

Associate Professor, Environmental Science. Rivers and riparian forests, habitat and ecology of Pacific salmon.

Robin Kodner

Associate Professor, Biology. Marine biology, algae, citizen science.

James Miller

Assistant Professor, Comparative Indigenous Studies, Environmental Studies, Canadian-American Studies. Indigenous design knowledge, transboundary placemaking, architecture and planning.

Derek Moscato

Associate Professor, Journalism. Cross-border media systems, public relations, pipelines.

Jennifer Seltz

Associate Professor, History. History of the Pacific Northwest, environmental history.

Nick Stanger

Associate Professor, Environmental Studies. Environmental education in Canada and the Salish Sea.

John Tuxill

Associate Professor, Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies. Ethnobotany, ethnobotany, conservation biology, sustainability.

Theresa Warburton

Associate Professor, English. Indigenous literatures of the Pacific.