Dr. Myla Vicenti Carpio, Native American Studies

Name:

Myla Vicenti Carpio

Title:

Associate Professor

Department:

Native American Studies

Describe your research in about 200 words.

My initial research in Indigenous urban studies has maintained a focus on community sustainability in defending indigeneity, place, and culture as a material form of resilience. I have two ongoing research projects in progress; a co-authored book manuscript with Dr. Karen Leong exploring the intersections between the federal government’s Japanese American incarceration and relocation during World War II and its American Indian Urban Relocation Program that began in the late 1950s; and another research project with Yurok elder Dr. Walter Lara Jr.(Hon)and his daughter Dr. Kishan Lara-Cooper which centers on the history of Yurok efforts to retain their traditional fishing rights and use of the gill net documenting the Salmon Wars on the Klamath River in the 1960s and 1970s. More recently I have shifted my research to Indigenous food sovereignty, while maintaining a focus on community sustainability by emphasizing our connections with traditional foods and understanding the policies involved with growing our own food.

What’s the most interesting thing you have learned from a student?

The jobs students have while going to school.