Native Faculty Spotlight Series: Alisha Ragland

MOSAIC Station

For Native American Heritage Month, we're proud to bring you a short series where we spotlight some of our amazing Native and Indigenous faculty members at SJSU.

Today's episode features Alisha Marie Ragland, a lecturer for Anthropology and the tribal liaison for AB275 on campus. She joins us today to talk about her role on campus, her journey to academia, and how she has come into her Native identity throughout her life.

Links mentioned in the episode include:

The Urban Relocation Project and video can be found at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/urp/

Santa Cruz Archeological Society's article "Mamita's House: A True Tale of Tortilla Flats" can be found here: http://www.santacruzarchsociety.org/mamitas-house-a-true-tale-of-tortilla-flat

Bookshop.org link to "Mamita's House" can be found here: https://bookshop.org/books/mamita-s-house-a-true-tale-of-tortilla-flat/9781450546072

SJSU's Anthropology Faculty page can be found here: https://www.sjsu.edu/anthropology/people/Faculty/index.html

Music credit to Eekwol and T-Rhyme for "Revitalize"