Dr. Angela Gonzales is an enrolled citizen of the Hopi Nation from the Village of Songoopavi (Spider clan) and Professor and Director of ASU's American Indian Studies Program. She joined ASU in 2016 after serving on the faculty in Development Sociology and American Indian Studies at Cornell University. As an interdisciplinary scholar, Gonzales’s research cuts across and integrates the fields of sociology, Indigenous studies, and public health. Her contributions within and between these areas center Indigenous epistemologies, perspectives, and needs, inform public policy, advance community-engaged research, and build the field of Indigenous sociology.
Gonzales has received numerous awards, fellowships, and grants for her scholarship, teaching and community service, including the Ford Foundation Diversity Pre-doctoral and Post-doctoral Fellowships, the Kaplan Award for Public Service (Cornell), and the Katrin H. Lamon Fellowship at the School for Advanced Research (Santa Fe, NM). Gonzales strives to embody the Hopi values of sumingnawa (working together with others) and numingnawa (working for the benefit of all) through her research and service. She currently serves on the Board President for the Colorado Plateau Foundation, a Native-led foundation that supports the protection of water, protection of sacred places and threatened landscapes, preservation of Native languages, and sustainable community-based agriculture. She is also a founding Board Member of the Hopi Education Endowment Fund, an organization of Hopi college and university graduates working to collectively inspire and assist future generations of Hopi college students. Gonzales holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University, an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a B.A. in Sociology from the University of California, Riverside.
Service is an important part of who I am as an academic and community-engaged scholar and includes both internal and external types of service. My Internal service includes service to the university/school as well as professional service to the discipline and national organizations. My external service helps advance ASU's commitment to enhance local impact and social embeddedness. These service activities included:
Professional
President, Society of Senior Ford Fellows, National Academies of Science (2022)
Chair, American Sociological Association section on Indigenous Peoples and Native Nations (2021-2022)
Public Engagement Liaison, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, American Sociological Association (2019-2020)
Selection Committee, Social Science Research Council (SSRC) International Dissertation Research Fellowship (2021-present)
Associate Editor, Rural Sociology, journal of the Rural Sociological Society (2021-present)
Co-Chair, Sociology Review Panel, National Research Council, Ford Foundation Fellowship Program (2019)
Arizona State University
Associate Director, School of Social Transformation (2020-Spring 2021)
Faculty Lead, Justice and Social Inquiry (2018-2019)
Representative, University Senate (2019-2020)
Organizer, Indigenous Research Roundtable, School of Social Transformation (2018-2021)
Leadership Team, School of Social Transformation (2018-Spring 2021)
Sociology Advisory Committee, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (2021-present)
Personnel Committee (ex officio), School of Social Transformation (2019-Spring 2021)
Search Committee, Director, School of Social Transformation (2020-2021)
Graduate Admissions Committee, M.A. Indigenous Education program, Center for Indian Education (2019-present)
Member, Provost’s Native American Advisory Council, Office of the University Provost (2018-2020)
Community
Board of Directors, Colorado Plateau Foundation (2019-present). A Native-led foundation, the CPF responds to community needs by awarding grants in the areas of protection of water, protection of sacred places and threatened landscapes, preservation of Native languages, and sustainable community-based agriculture to Native led-organizations and tribal entities on the Colorado Plateau in amounts between $1,000 and $25,000.
Board of Directors for the Hopi Education Endowment Fund (2011-2020). Established in 2000 with an initial gift of $10 million from the Hopi Tribal Council, HEEF is a 7871 nonprofit organization whose mission is to safeguard and grow a perpetual source of funding for the education of Hopi people. Prior to rotating off the Board in 2020, I had served six years on the Executive Committee and one year as Board President.
