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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 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Boulder. 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 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Buddhism. She is currently working on her manuscript titled Decolonizing Metaphysics: Transnational Indigeneities and Religious Refusal, which explores urban Indian and ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ refugee religious life as decolonial praxis. She is a Chicana of Apache descent, born and raised in the Bay Area.
Studies: Mindful Campus Program