Specialization:
Art and decolonization, race and space, placekeeping, cultural geography, critical pedagogy, environmental racism, interdisciplinary methodologies, narrative and research, cartography, critical and comparative Ethnic Studies, Indigenous Studies
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
Bio:
Natchee Barnd is a comparative and critical ethnic studies scholar interested in the intersections between ethnic studies, cultural geography, and Indigenous studies. His research focuses on issues of race, space, and Indigenous geographies. His first book, Native Space: Geographic Strategies to Unsettle Settler Colonialism 
(OSU Press, and the First Peoples series ) illustrates the ways that Native people in North America sustain and create Indigenous geographies in settler colonial nations (and was awarded the Association for Ethnic Studies' 2021 Outstanding Book Award ). A second co-authored book, A People's Guide to Portland and Beyond (pre-contract, UC Press ), highlights lesser known sites of social justice and oppression across the city of Portland, Oregon. Dr. Barnd also writes on pedagogy, cartography, contemporary media, college cultural centers, and popular culture.
His writing appears in the Journal of Geography, Cartographica, Mobilities, e-flux Architecture/Guggenheim, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, People and Nature, Social Text/Natural History Museum, Urban Geography, Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, AAG Review of Books, Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, and Oregon Humanities. Dr. Barnd also has chapters in Transformative Approaches to Social Justice Education (Routledge), Diversity in Disney Films (MacFarland), Teaching Race in the 21st Century (Palgrave/Springer), Nexus: Complicating Community and Centering the Self (Cognella).
In addition to his second book, he is currently working on:
- an article about teaching Ethnic Studies during study abroad -- under review
- an article on Indigenous Placekeeping -- under review
- co-editing a special journal issue on Indigenous Cartographies -- in progress
- an analytic survey of Ethnic Studies programs in the United States -- in progress
- a book on "race as space" -- just getting started
Dr. Barnd is the editor of the longest-running ethnic studies journal, Ethnic Studies Review , which is now housed at UC Santa Barbara. His most noted pedagogical project is the Social Justice Tour of Corvallis, a student-led research and experiential community learning series run during his time at Oregon State University.
Dr Barnd greatly enjoyed his collaborative work with colleagues at the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians (note: this should not be read as an endorsement by either community). He is currently developing his relationships with local Native Nations around Santa Barbara. Natchee Barnd has worked extensively with on-campus cultural centers [see video on OSU cultural centers , the UCSD Cross-Cultural Center page, and Sacramento State University's Multicultural Center ], with a special emphasis on combining scholarship, mentoring, and community building.
Before joining UC Santa Barbara, Dr. Barnd worked for twelve years at Oregon State University, and prior to that taught at a number of schools, including California College of the Arts (Critical Studies), San Francisco State University (American Indian Studies), and UC San Diego (Ethnic Studies) .
Publications:
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).