David Martinez (Gila River Pima)

Assistant Professor
Phone: (480) 727-9818
Email:  David.Martinez.1@asu.edu

I am an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Community.  As such, I am the first—as far as anyone knows—Gila River Pima to become a professor of any rank at ASU.  This is a distinction that I hold with much honor.  I also hold a Ph.D. in philosophy, making me one of only a handful of American Indians with such a degree.  My research interests cover the areas of American Indian intellectual history, art and aesthetics, and religious studies.  I have published in Wicazo Sa, the Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Art History, Third Text, and Analecta Husserliana.  In addition, I have a book coming out in January 2009 titled From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water: Charles A. Eastman, Minnesota, and the World of the American Indian, which will be published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press.

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