Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Carol Chiago Lujan

Associate Professor

Arizona State University
American Indian Studies
Tempe, Arizona 85287-4603
Phone: University (480) 965-6977
e-mail: carol.lujan@asu.edu

PROFESSIONAL VITAE 2006

EDUCATION AND DEGREES

1986
Ph.D. in Sociology
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131
1979
M.A. in Public Administration
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico 8713 1
1976
B.A. in Sociology and Psychology
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2004-
Associate Professor, American Indian Studies, Arizona State University
1997-2004
Director, American Indian Studies, Arizona State University
1998-1999
Special Assistant to Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs U.S. Department of Interior, Washington, D.C. (Leave of absence from Arizona State University)
1995-2004
Associate Professor, School of Justice Studies, Arizona State University
1987-1995
Assistant Professor, School of Justice Studies, Arizona State University
1990-1992
Director, National Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention, United States Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, D.C. (leave of absence from Arizona State University)
1986-1987
Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology, University of New Mexico
1980-1986
Graduate Fellow/Graduate Assistant, Department of Sociology,
University of New Mexico
1979-1980
Lecturer, Native American Studies, University of New Mexico
1976-1980
School Administrator, Coordinator of Student Rights and Responsibilities, Albuquerque Indian School/Santa Fe Indian School, All Indian Pueblo Council, Inc.

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2006
Featured Artist, Southwest Indian Art Fair, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, February
2005
Bahti Indian Arts Award of Excellence in Figurative Clay, Southwest Indian Art Fair, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson. February.
2004
Third Place Award in Figurative Clay Storyteller Division, Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, Inc. 83rd Annual Santa Fe Indian Market, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August.
1996
Outstanding Alumnus, Department of Sociology, University of New Mexico
1994
Service Award, School of Justice Studies, Arizona State University
1986
Navajo Tribal Dissertation Scholarship
1983 ‑ 1984
American Sociological Association, Graduate Student Minority Fellowship
1983
University of New Mexico, Graduate School Fellowship
1979 ‑ 1982
National Institute of Mental Health Fellowship
1976
Navajo Tribal Scholarship

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

Monographs

Lujan, Carol Chiago
2000 Review and Recommendations on the U.S. Department of Justice/Tribal Government DOJ-DOI Indian Country Law Enforcement Initiative Consultation Process for Year 2000.

Lujan, Carol Chiago, Riding In, James and Tsosie, Rebecca
1999 Evaluation of the Indian Country Justice Initiative. Report for the National Institute of Justice, Department of Justice, pp.1-89.

Lujan, Carol Chiago
1995 Review and Assessment of the Impact of Health and Human Service Codes and Regulations of American Indian and Alaska Native Nations. Report for the National Indian Policy Center, George Washington University, Final Draft:1-55.

Lujan, Carol Chiago
1995 Cognitive Interviews with American Indians for 1995 U.S. Census Test. U.S. Bureau of Census, Center for Survey Methods Research and Population Division.

Lujan, Carol Chiago
1994 American Indians and Criminal Justice: Research and policy considerations, Enhancing Capacities and Confronting Controversies in Criminal Justice, Proceedings of the 1993 National Conference of the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Justice Research and Statistics Association, Aug. 1994, NCJ-145318. U.S. Dept. Of Justice, Office of Justice Programs and Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Lujan, Carol Chiago
1994 Improving the Enumeration Methodology for Census 2000: Reducing the Undercount of American Indians on Reservations and Trust Lands. Report for the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Census, Center for Survey Methods Research, Final Draft:1-88.

Lujan, Carol Chiago
1989 As Simple as One, Two, Three: Census Underenumeration Among the American Indians and Alaska Natives. Monograph for the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Census, Center for Survey Methods Research:1-27.

Fleming, Candace, Spero M. Manson, Fred Beauvais, Gregory
Cornell, Joyce Kramer, Carol Lujan, Philip A. May, Valerie C. Montoya, and Joseph E. Trimble

1990 Breaking New Ground for American Indian and Alaska Native Youth: Program Summaries. OSAP Technical Report-3. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:1-102.

Refereed Journal Articles

Lujan, Carol Chiago and Gordon Adams
2005 U.S. Colonization of American Indian Justice: A brief History Special Edition: Colonialism and American Indians Wicazo Sa Review: A Journal of Native American Studies Spring, Vol.19(2): 9 - 23.

Lujan, Carol Chiago, M. Yellow Bird and O. Trujillo
2005 Reclaiming American Indian Studies: The ASU Experience Wicazo Sa Review: A Journal of Native American Studies Spring, Vol 20.1: 189-197

2001 Strengthening the Next Seven Generations: American Indian Studies Program at Arizona State University. Indigenous Nations Journal. (Spring, 2001).

Bond-Maupin, Lisa, Carol Chiago Lujan and M.A. Bortner
1995 "Jailing of American Indian Adolescents: The Legacy of Cultural Domination and Imposed Law." Crime, Law and Social Change.

Lujan, Carol Chiago
1995 "Women Warriors: American Indian Women, Crime and Alcohol." Journal of Women and Criminal Justice. 2 (Spring): 9 - 17.

1993 "A Sociological view of Tourism in an American Indian Community: Maintaining Cultural Integrity at Taos Pueblo." American Indian Culture and Research Journal. Vol17(3):101-120.

DeBruyn, LeMyra, Carol Chiago Lujan and Philip A. May
1992 "A Comparative Study of Child Abuse/Neglect Among American Indians in the Southwest." Journal of Social Science and Medicine: An International Journal Vol. 35(3):305-315.

Lujan, Carol Chiago
1992 "An Emphasis On Solutions Rather Than Problems." American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: The Journal of the National Center Vol. 4(3):101:104
Lujan, Carol Chiago, LeMyra DeBruyn, Philip A. May and Michael Bird
1989 "Profile of Abused and Neglected American Indian Children in the Southwest." Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal Vol. 13:449‑461.

Lujan, Carol Chiago
1989 "Educating the Researchers." American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: The Journal of the National Center, Vol. 2(3):75-76.

Book Chapters

2005 U.S. Politicans and the Prevalent Stereotyping of American Indian and Alaskia Native Nations and Peoples in Images of Color/Images of Crime, Third edition, Editor(s) Coramae Richey Mann and Marjorie S. Zatz.

Lujan, Carol Chiago
2001 Stereotyping by Politicians: Perpetuating the Stereotypes of American Indian Nations and Peoples , In, Images of Color/Images of Crime Second Edition. Editors Coramae Richey Mann and Marjorie S. Zatz. Los Angeles Roxbury Publishing Co. (Spring, 2001).

Lujan, Carol Chiago
Southwestern Indians in The Native North American Almanac. Gale Research, Inc. (Spring 2001).

Lujan, Carol Chiago
1998 The Only Reel Indians are Stereotyped Indians: Racial Stereotyping of American
Indians by Politicians. In, Images of Color/Images of Crime. Editors Coramae Richey Mann and Marjorie S. Zatz. Los Angeles, Roxbury Publishing Co.

Lujan, Carol Chiago
Reprint of 1993 article originally published in American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 17:3(1993):101-129, "A Sociological View of Tourism in an American Indian Community: Maintaining Cultural Integrity at Taos Pueblo in, Tourism Dynamics Series, Valene Smith and Paul Wilkinson, Series editors, by Cognitive Communications, New Jersey. Spring, 1998.

Lujan, Carol Chiago
1993 "Stereotypes, American Indians and Criminal Justice." In, Understanding Cultural Diversity, Maryland: American Corrections Association-71.

Zatz, Marjorie, Carol Chiago Lujan and Zoanne Synder-Joy
1991 "American Indians and Criminal Justice: Some Conceptual and Methodological Considerations," In, Race and Criminal Justice. (eds.) Michael J. Lynch and E. Brett Patterson, New York: Harrow and Heston:101-112.

Other Publications

Lujan, Carol Chiago
1992 "Alcohol-Related Deaths of American Indians: Stereotypes and Strategies." The Journal of the American Medical Association. March 11, Vol. 267(10).

Book Reviews

Bond-Maupin, Lisa and Carol Chiago Lujan
1994 Review of Murder and Suicide on Indian Reservations by Ronet Backman. In Crime, Law and Social Change.

Other Documented Research Activities

Video documentary of the American Indian Studies Director s Consortium (2000-2004)

Video documentary entitled, Justice in Indian Country: A process evaluation of the U.S. Department of Justice Indian Country Justice Initiative. 1999

Video documentary of the Wassaja Speaker Series (1997- ).

Research Activities on Website

Lujan, Carol Chiago and Gordon Adams
2005 U.S. Colonization of American Indian Justice: A brief History Special Edition: Colonialism and American Indians Wicazo Sa Review: A Journal of Native American Studies 19:2.

Carol Chiago Lujan
1999 Justice in Indian Country: A Process Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Justice Indian Country Justice Initiative. Grant#96-IJxCx-0097

Current Research Activities

Cultural Sovereignty and Cultural Maintenance: Interviews and Analysis of American Indian Strength in New Mexico

Cultural Sovereignty and American Indians Leadership in the United States and Canada with Rebecca Tsosie

Other Creative Awards/Endeavors

1997 Best in Classification for Photography, New Crops , Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, Inc., 76th Annual Santa Fe Indian Market, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August.

1997 Best of Division B Black and White Photography, New Crops , Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, Inc., 76th Annual Santa Fe Indian Market, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August.

1997 First place in Personal Vision, Black and White Photography, New Crops , Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, Inc., 76th Annual Santa Fe Indian Market, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August.

1997 Second Place, Documentary, Native Nations , Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, Inc., 76th Annual Santa Fe Indian Market, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August.

Research Consultant Activities

2000-2003
Inter Tribal Council of Arizona. Researcher for the American Indian Childhood Obesity Study. Funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
2000

U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs, the Assistant Attorney General s Office (OAAG). Facilitate, review and assess National Indian Law Enforcement Consultation meetings.

1996-1997
Principal Investigator "Indian Country Justice Initiative: Evaluation Plan." Submitted to the National Institute of Justice Department of Justice. Amount: $149,977 Funded. Evaluated the Dept. of Justice Indian Country Justice Initiative in the Pueblo of Laguna and the Northern Cheyenne Nation.
1995 - 1996
Evaluation Consultant Center of Substance Abuse Treatment Rural and Remote Project. Navajo Nation's Dine' Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. University of New Mexico, Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions (CASAA).
1994
Review and Assess of the Impact of Health and Human Service Codes and Regulations of American Indian and Alaska Native Nations. National Indian Policy Center. George Washington University.
1993 - 1994
U.S. Census Consultation with American Indian Nations in the Southwest. Center for Survey Methods Research, U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Census. Organized and facilitated discussion groups of American Indian leaders in Arizona and New Mexico
1992
U.S. Census Undercount Behavior Research Project with American Indian Populations. Center for Survey
Methods Research, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Census.
1990
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Prevention Research Branch.
1990
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Prevention Research Branch.
1989
United States Bureau of the Census, Center of Survey Methods Research, Consultant
1988
National Center of American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, Consultant
1990
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Prevention Research Branch.
1988
Transition Survey for the ASU and NAU sites (with Norman Dinges, Oregon Health Science University) Research Consultant.
1987
On‑Site Coordinator for the National American Indian Student Life, University of Colorado, Research Consultant
1986
Research Consultant, Health Success Study, Indian Health Service Rapid City, South Dakota (with Philip A. May)
1985
Research Analyst for the American Indian Abused and Neglected Children Study, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Indian Health Service (with LeMyra DeBruyn)
1983‑84
Research Consultant, Pueblo of Laguna Division of Community Services, Laguna, New Mexico
1983
Research Consultant, Alamo Navajo Community School Board, Magdalena, New Mexico.
1983
Research Program Assistant, Sociology Department, University of New Mexico.
1981
National Institute of Mental Health, Summer Internship, Albuquerque Urban Indian Center
1980
National Institute of Mental Health, Summer Internship, Indian Health Service, Office of Alcoholism, Albuq., New Mexico. Research Assistant
1976
Research Consultant, Isleta Pueblo Headstart Program, Isleta, New Mexico.

GRANT ACTIVITIES

National/External

2001
Longitudinal Study on Risks and Resiliency among American Indian Youth. Submitted to the Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention. $649,890. Not Funded.
1998- 2000
Interpersonnel Governmental Agreement, Department of Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of Interior. Approximately $200,000.
1996
Principal Investigator "Indian Country Justice Initiative: Evaluation Plan." Submitted to the National Institute of Justice Department of Justice. Amount: $149,977 Funded.
1994
Principal Investigator "Assessment of Health and Human Services Codes and Regulations of American Indian and Alaska Native Nations." Funded by George Washington University. Amount: $10,000 Funded
1994
Researcher "Voices from Communities in Transition" with Arizona Humanities Council. $84,000. Funded for 1995/1996.
1993
Principal Investigator, "Underenumeration of American Indian and Alaska Natives." Funded by U.S. Bureau of the Census. Amount: $7,500.
1993
Co-Principal Investigator, (with Grayson Noley, Principal Investigator) "Tribal Leadership in the 21st Century," Funded by Dwight D. Eisenhower Leadership Grant, U.S. Department of Education. Amount: $120,000. Funded.
1990-92

Interpersonnel Governmental Agreement, Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 2 year grant. Total Amount $147,942.

University

2001
Lujan, Carol C. with Rebecca Tsosie College of Public Program Dean s Incentive Grant. Preserving the Culture: The Role of American Indian Women in Contemporary Policy Development. (Amount $5,000).
2001
Lujan, Carol C. with M. Bortner (Center for Urban Inquiry) and Diann Pert (Urban Gardening) and Kris Radke (Gila River Indian Community) Land, Language and Cultural Strength: A Partnership Committed to Youth. Amount $7,860. ASU Motorola Great Communities Grant.
1996-1997
With James Riding In Dean s Incentive Grant Development of an American Indian Policy Center at ASU College of Public Programs, ASU. $10,000.
1989
Dean's Incentive Grant (American Indian Women and the Law), College of Public Programs, ASU, $3000.
1988
ASU Graduate College (Colloquium Series on American Indian Issues), $5,000.

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

(National/local presentations prior to 1997 submitted upon request)

International

1997
Sociological Overview of American Indian Nation Achievements. Presented at the American Sociological Association Meetings. Toronto, Canada, Aug.
1991
"Social and Legal Issues of American Indians." Presented at the Law and Society meetings, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June.
1990
"American Indian Women and the Law." Presented at the World Congress of Sociology, Madrid, Spain, July.
1988
"American Indian Attitudes About Law and Legal Agents." Presented at the 10th International Congress of Criminology, Hamburg, Germany, September.

U.S. Delegate

1989
The International Criminology Conference in Havana, Cuba, November.

National, Regional & Local

2006
Cultural Sovereignty and Leadership Among Southwestern American Indians 7th Annual American Indian Studies Association, Tempe, Az. February
2004
Moderator, Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Consortium Annual Conference Transnational & Transdisciplinary Border Crossings from Science to Practice, American Indian Youth in Metro Phoenix, ASU, April.
2004
Reclaiming American Indian Studies: The ASU Experience 5th Annual American Indian Studies Consortium, Tempe, Az, February
2003
Demographic Profile of American Indian Nations Barona Indian Reservation, California, May
2003
Keynote Speaker, American Indian Institute, Spring 2003 ASU Honors Reception, April
2003
American Indian Studies/Indigenous Studies in Arizona ASU, American Indian Studies Consortium, Tempe, February
2000

Education: Experiences and American Indian Studies. Scottsdale Community College Native American Week, Scottsdale, April.

2000
American Indians into the 2nd Millennium. Arizona State University Native American Week. April.
2000
Developing and American Indian Studies Program at Arizona State University. American Indian Studies Directors Consortium, Tempe, March.
1999
Indigenous Justice. Roundtable discussion with Florida Atlantic University Balanced and Restorative Justice and the American Indian Development Associates. Albuq. NM April.
1999
BIA Education the 2nd Millennium. ASU Center for Indian Education Programs. ASU Tempe, Arizona. February.
1999
An Overview of BIA Education FY2000 Budget Navajo Area School Board Association Conference. Phoenix. February.
1998
Injustice in Indian Country. Presented at the Law and Society meetings. Aspen, Colorado, June.
1998
The Status of BIA Education. National Indian Education Association. Nashville, Tenn. November.
1998

Indian Country Justice Initiative Evaluation. Department of Justice. Portland, Organ. November.

1998
Justice in Northern Cheyenne and Laguna Pueblo. Western Hemisphere Indigenous Conference, University of California, Davis. April
1998
Networking at the University. Fifth Annual Women of Color Luncheon. ASU Faculty Women s Association/Sister Friends event. January.
1997
Challenges in Teaching Undergraduate Students. American Society of Criminology. San Diego. November.
1997
Minorities in the Millennium Symposium. Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona. October.
1997
Prospects for American Indians in the Second Millennium. Presented at the annual American Sociological Association thematic session, Toronto, Canada. Aug.
1997
Overview of the Indian Country Justice Initiative. Annual Conference on Criminal Justice Research and Evaluation. U.S. Dept. Of Justice National Institute of Justice Research Conference, Washington, D.C. July
1997

United Kingdom and Arizona aka U.K./A.Z. Panel on Indigenous Peoples and Sovereignty. Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ. February.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Elected Memberships
American Indian Studies Consortium, Founding Board Member (2004 - )
Pacific Sociological Association, Committee on Committees. (1993)
Appointed
Native American Studies Art Association, Conference Planning Committee (2004-2005)
American Society of Criminology, Student Affairs Committee (1996)
Law and Society Association, Local Arrangements Committee. (1994)
American Society of Criminology, Minority Fellowship Committee. (1991)



Executive Editor
Prevention Quarterly (1990 - 1992) 
Editorial Board Member
Journal of American Indian Education (1987-1999)  
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health
Research: The Journal of the National Center (1987-2000)
Reviewer
State University of New York Press. (1994)
Journal of American Indian Education (1987‑ )
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: The Journal of the National Center (1987‑ )
Public Health Reports: Journal of the U.S. Public Health Service (1993)
Social Problems (1993)
Grant Review Panel
NIJ Peer Review Panel. National Institute of Justice Evaluation Proposals. Spring 2001.
NIJ Peer Review Panel. National Institute of Justice Evaluation Proposals. Summer, 2000.
U.S. Dept. of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs. Indian Highway Safety Program Grants (1999).
U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice's Evaluations of the Pilot Programs in Laguna Pueblo & Northern Cheyenne Nation Peer Review Panel (1995).
U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, The Administration for Native Americans - Language Preservation Grants (1994, 1995).
U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services, Indian Health Service (1991).
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Healthy Nations Project for American Indian Nations (1993).
Professional Associations
Native American Art Studies Association

American Indian and Alaska Native Professors Association

American Indian Studies Directors Consortium
American Indian Studies Consortium
Pacific Sociological Association
American Sociological Association
American Society of Criminology
Society for the Study of Social Problems

Law and Society Association

American Indian and Alaska Native Professors Association
Conference Session Organizer/Chair/Discussant
2003, 2002 American Indian Studies Consortium Founder, Organizer and Presenter
2001 Conference Organizer/Presenter, Advancing Native Issues, Concerns and Professionals in the Academy. 11th Annual American Indian/Alaska Native Professors Conference. ASU.
2001 Conference Founder, Organizer/Presenter, What Constitutes an American Indian Studies Program? 2nd Annual American Indian Studies Directors Consortium. ASU Tempe, Ax. Feb.
2001 Conference co-organizer with Rebecca Tsosie ASU Indian Law Program
Symposium on Cultural Sovereignty: Native Rights in the 21st Century. ASU College of Law. March.
2000 American Indian Studies Director s Consortium Conference Founder and Organizer. First Peoples, First Nations: Voices and Perspectives of American Indian Studies into the 21st Century. ASU, March
1998 Discussant. International Issues of Women and Resistance. Society for the Study of Social Problems. San Francisco, California. August
1998 ASU American Indian Studies Wassaja Speaker Series. Language and Culture (February 12).

1997 ASU American Indian Studies Wassaja Speaker Series. Sacred Sites and Repatriation (October); Art and Literature (November 12).

Other Initiatives
Founder of the American Indian Studies Consortium
COMMUNITY SERVICE
National Service
National Advisory Board Member
Colorado State University Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research, Longitudinal Study on Risks and Resiliency among American Indian Youth. Funded by Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention (2003 - )
Atlatl National Service Organization for Native American Arts (2001- )
Native American Art Studies Association (2005 planning committee)
National HIV/AIDS American Indian Needs Assessment Advisory Committee (ITCA Phoenix, 1997-1998)
National Organization of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Washington, D.C. (1994- )
National Indian Training and Research Center, Tempe, Arizona (1994-1998)
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Healthy Nations Project University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (1992- 2001)
American Indian Policy Center, Health and Human Resources Committee,George Washington University (1991‑1993)
National American Indian Oversight Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect(1990-1992)
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention National Advisory Committee (1990-1992)
Chair and co-founder of National Federal Inter-Agency Committee on Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention for American Indians and Alaskan Natives (1990-1992)
Indian Education Administration Program (Rockefeller Foundation Grant) New Mexico State University (1978-1980)
Regional Community Service

1997 First Urban Indian Summit Planning Committee

1992 New Mexico Attorney General's Task Force on DWI.
1993 Board Member of American Indian Rehabilitation Center, Inc. Phoenix, Arizona
1987‑ Present Inter‑Tribal Council of Arizona
Classes Taught
Justice Theory
Juvenile Justice
American Indian Justice
Crime and Justice
Contemporary Issues of American Indian Nations

American Indians and Art, Cinema and Media


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