Tiffanie Hardbarger

Associate Professor
Sociology

Office Location

Tahlequah
Wilson Hall 151
(918) 444-3599

Bio

Dr. Hardbarger (Cherokee Nation) is an Assistant Professor in the Cherokee & Indigenous Studies Department on the Tahlequah campus (located in the territory of the Cherokee Nation and United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians).

She received her Ph.D. in Community Resources & Development (Arizona State University) focused on sustainability, Indigenous-led community development and tourism, environmental justice, and decolonizing research methodologies.

Education
Research Interests
Teaching Interests
Professional Activities
Courses Taught

Indigenous Participatory Action Research (IPAR), Indigenous- led community development, sustainability, perpetuating Cherokee (and Indigenous) ("lifeways"), decoloniality, self-determination movements, and the methods of community mapping and photovoice.

Utilizing a decolonizing lens to explore intersectional aspects of critical community development and environmental justice in regard to community- and land-based practices, epistemologies and knowledges, land and water rights/stewardship, reclamation of food systems, and activism.

Courses Taught:

INDIGENOUS TOURISM - CHER 4853 - Fall 2020
FOOD SYSTEMS & WELL BEING - CHER 3343 - Fall 2020
CHEROKEE LIFEWAYS - AIS 3323 - Spring 2020
SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES - AIS 4223 - Spring 2020
INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS - CHER 3363 - Fall 2019
CONTEMP ISSUES AM INDIAN LDRSH - EDUC 5763 - Fall 2019
WORKSHOP - SOC 4003 - Spring 2018
SELF-DETERMINATION MOVEMENTS - AIS 4953 - Spring 2018
CHEROKEE CULTURAL HERITAGE - CHER 4113 - Spring 2018
SPECIAL TOPICS - AIS 4043 - Fall 2017
SEMINAR IN AMERICAN POLICY - AMST 5033 - Spring 2017
HISTORY OF INDIAN EDUCATION - CHER 4513 - Spring 2017