UNM NABPI Partners & Affiliates

Angela P. Hattery, Ph.D., Professor of Women and Gender Studies and Co-Director of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Gender-Based Violence at the University of Delaware. Her scholarship incorporates diverse research methodologies, including quantitative statistical analysis, qualitative interviewing, and ethnography. She is the author or co-author of 12 books and dozens of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, focusing on topics such as intimate partner violence, racism in solitary confinement, racism in the criminal legal system, and the sociology of sport.

Lloyd L. Lee, Ph.D. He is Kinyaa’áanii (Towering House), born for Tł‘ááshchí’í (Red Cheeks). His maternal grandfather’s clan is ‘Áshįįhi (Salt) and his paternal grandfather’s clan is Tábąąhá (Water’s Edge).

He is Chair and Professor of the Department of Native American Studies (NAS), Director of the Center for Regional Studies (CRS), and editor of the Wicazo Sa Review journal. He is the author of Diné Identity in a 21st Century World (2020), Diné Masculinities: Conceptualizations and Reflections (2013), co-author of Native Americans and the University of New Mexico (2017), edited Nihikéyah: Navajo Homeland (2023), Navajo Sovereignty: Understandings and Visions ofthe Diné People (2017), and Diné Perspectives: Reclaiming and Revitalizing Navajo Thought (2014), and co-edited The Yazzie Case: Building a Public Education System for Our Indigenous Future (2023) with Wendy S. Greyeyes and Glenabah Martinez His research focuses on Indigenous identity, masculinities, leadership, philosophies, and Native Nation building/Indigenous community building.

Rodney C. Haring, Ph.D., MSW, is the inaugural Director of the Roswell Park Center for Indigenous Cancer Research and the Roswell Park Center for Indigenous Cancer Services. Dr. Haring serves as research faculty at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Office of Community Outreach and Engagement, Department of Cancer Prevention and Control and affiliate research faculty at the OU Health, Stephenson Cancer Center. He is also a past fellow at the National Congress of American Indians and Mayo Clinic. Dr. Haring is an enrolled member of the Seneca Nation of Indians (Beaver Clan) and resides on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation (NY). He holds a doctoral degree in social work, has more than 15 years of social work practice, and served as a former delegate on the US Department of Health and Human Services, American Indian and Alaska Native, Health Research Advisory Council. Dr. Haring is also the lead delegate for the historic MoU between Rowell Park and Indian Health Services with the common mission of addressing health burdens in Indigenous communities. In 2017 he was awarded an Impact Award by the National Indian Health Board and in 2021 he received the National Federation of Just Communities Hero Award. Dr. Haring’s research interests intersect eliminating disparities and encouraging resiliencies within First Nations and Indigenous communities.

Matthew Martinez, Ph.D., Executive Director of Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project.
He is currently First Lieutenant Governor of Ohkay Owingeh, an award-winning film producer (However Wide the Sky with Silver Bullet Productions) and has an established career as an educator. Dr. Martinez previously served as a Professor of Pueblo Indian Studies at Northern New Mexico College where students were introduced to Indigenous Studies and petroglyph histories. His knowledge and insight into the history of the area, as well as his vision, are invaluable and we are grateful for his contributions, both in the past and for the future of the project. Dr. Martinez received his Ph.D. in 2008 from the University of Minnesota in American Studies and American Indian Studies, M.A. in 2000 from Arizona State University in Political Science as well earned a B.A. in Political Science from the University of New Mexico in 1997.