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Clint Carroll is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder. He received his doctorate from the University of California Berkeley in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, and his bachelor’s degree from the University of Arizona in Anthropology, with a minor in American Indian Studies. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, he works closely with Cherokee people in Oklahoma on issues of land conservation and the perpetuation of land-based knowledge and ways of life. His book,  (2015, University of Minnesota Press), explores how tribal natural resource managers navigate the material and structural conditions of settler colonialism, as well as how recent efforts in cultural revitalization are informing such practices through traditional forms of decision-making and local environmental knowledge. 

Dr. Carroll has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Udall Foundation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Science Foundation. He was also a 2014-2016 Fellow of the Native Investigator Development Program, funded by the National Institutes of Health. His work has been published in Ethnohistory, Geoforum, Environmental Research, EcoHealth, and numerous edited collections. He is an active member of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology. Dr. Carroll currently co-edits the Cambridge University Press series, with Joy Porter (University of Hull) and Dina Gilio-Whitaker (California State University San Marcos). He also serves on the editorial boards for Cultural Anthropology and Environment and Society. He is a board member for Indigenous Education, Inc. (home of the Cobell Scholarship) and was recently elected to the Denver Botanic Gardens Board of Trustees (2022-2025). 

What's New

In my current work, funded by a , I co-direct with a group of elders and wisdom-keepers a land education program for five Cherokee students; I also serve as Principal Investigator on our study about Cherokee plant gathering access in rural northeastern Oklahoma. Through this integrated education and community-based research project, the elders, students, and I seek to formulate lasting methods for maintaining Cherokee land-based knowledge and to better understand how Cherokee people are negotiating access to land due to complex ownership patterns and the impact of shifting climate conditions. We hope that the results of the research will inform advancements in community-defined and -directed local ecosystem stewardship and tribal land conservation strategies. For more information, visit the . [Last updated Nov 2019]

Note for prospective graduate students: If you are interested in working with me, please send me an email well in advance of the application deadline with a statement explaining your goals for graduate study, any relevant skills or research experience, and how you see your interests aligning with my overall research and topical foci. Also be sure to attach a current CV or resume and a brief writing sample.

Selected Publications

Books

Carroll, Clint. 2015. Roots of Our Renewal: Ethnobotany and Cherokee Environmental Governance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Refereed Articles

Carroll, Clint, Eva Garroutte, Carolyn Noonan, and Dedra Buchwald. 2018. “Using PhotoVoice to Promote Land Conservation and Indigenous Well-Being in Oklahoma.” EcoHealth 15(2): 450-461. PMID: 29582228

Carroll, Clint, Eva Garroutte, Carolyn Noonan, Ana Navas-Acien, Steven Verney, and Dedra Buchwald. 2017. “Low-Level Inorganic Arsenic Exposure and Neuropsychological Functioning in American Indian Elders.” Environmental Research. 156: 74-79. PMID: 28334644

Bussey, John, Mae A. Davenport, Marla R. Emery, and Clint Carroll. 2016. “A Lot of It Comes from the Heart: The Nature and Integration of Ecological Knowledge in Tribal and Non-Tribal Forest Management.” Journal of Forestry. 114(2): 97-107.

Carroll, Clint. 2014. "Native Enclosures: Tribal National Parks and the Progressive Politics of Environmental Stewardship in Indian Country." Geoforum. 53: 31-40. 

Carroll, Clint. 2014. "Shaping New Homelands: Environmental Production, Natural Resource Management, and the Dynamics of Indigenous State Pratice in the Cherokee Nation." Ethnohistory. 61(1): 123 -147. 

Contributions to Edited Collections

Carroll, Clint. 2021: “Fauna and Flux on the Plains' Edge: Animal Kinship, Place Making, and Cherokee Relational Continuity.” Pp. 114-137 in The Greater Plains: Rethinking a Region's Environmental History, edited by Kathleen Brosnan and Brian Frehner. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Carroll, Clint, and Angelica Lawson. 2017. “New Media, Activism, and Indigenous Environmental Governance: Politics and the Minnesota-Wisconsin Wolf Hunt.” Pp. 199-135 in Ecocriticism and Indigenous Studies: Conversations from Earth to Cosmos, edited by Salma Monani and Joni Adamson. New York: Routledge Press.

Carroll, Clint. 2012. "Articulating Indigenous Statehood: Cherokee State Formation and Implications for the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples." Pp. 143-171 in Indigenous Rights in the Age of the UN Declaration, edited by Elvira Pulitano. Cambridge University Press. 

Book Reviews

Carroll, Clint. 2012. Review of Trust in the Land: New Directions in Tribal Conservation (2011) by Beth Rose Middleton. Studies in American Indian Literature, 24(1): 68-71.

Public Scholarship

Carroll, Clint. 2021. “.” Best Served Podcast 86-86-86 Challenge. Online. [Invited contribution.]

Carroll, Clint. 2020. “.” Parks Stewardship Forum 36(1): 154-158.

Carroll, Clint. 2020. “.” Boulder Daily Camera. 9/9/2020. [Op-ed condemning the ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ President’s use of “Trail of Tears” to describe online education challenges.]

Carroll, Clint. 2019. “.” World Literature Today. Online. [Invited contribution]

Carroll, Clint. 2017. “.” American Anthropological Association Engagement Blog. Theme: Life on the Frontier: The Environmental Anthropology of Settler Colonialism. [Invited contribution]

Carroll, Clint and the Cherokee Nation Medicine Keepers. 2016. “.” Langscape Magazine [Special Issue: Voices of the Earth, Part II] 5(2): 68-73.

Carroll, Clint. 2013. “.” Minnesota Star Tribune. March 13.

Interviews and Forums

Grant, Sonia. 2018. "." Teaching Tools, Fieldsights.

Schwartz, Lisa H. 2018. “Clint Carroll: Rooting Research in Tribal Partnerships.” Community Engaged Scholar Interview Series, ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder Office for Outreach and Engagement.

Waring, Dabney. 2018. “.” Critical Ethnic Studies Blog, Student Interview Series.

Pasquale, Cynthia. 2018. “.” ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Connections.

Publications updated Jan 2022

Professional Associations

Native American and Indigenous Studies Association
Society for Applied Anthropology
American Anthropological Association
American Studies Association
Association of American Geographers