Alaska Native Faculty & Staff
Alaska Native Faculty & Staff
The University of Alaska Anchorage strives to support its unique and diverse community by employing faculty who come from a myriad of different backgrounds. UAA recognizes and values the diversity of our unique location in Southcentral Alaska, the ancestral homelands of the Dena’ina Athabascan, Ahtna Athabascan, Alutiiq/Sugpiak, and Eyak peoples.
Faculty
Edgar Blatchford
Associate Professor, Journalism & Communications and Alaska Native Studies
Jeane T'áaw xíwaa Breinig
Associate Vice Chancellor for Alaska Natives & Diversity
Matthew Calhoun
Assistant Professor, Engineering
Dalee Sambo Dorough
Senior Scholar and Special Advisor on Indigenous Arctic Programs
Matthew Gho
ANSEP Assistant Professor, Mathematics
Acceleration High School
Tom Harman
Associate Professor, Math and College Preparatory & Developmental Studies
Beth Leonard
Professor, Director
Alaska Native Studies
John P Lewis
Associate Professor, WWAMI School of Medical Education
Tribal Affiliation: Unangax/Aleut, Native Village of Naknek
Kat Milligan-Myhre
Assistant Professor, Biology
Tribal Affiliation: Inupiaq
Michele Yatchmeneff
Assistant Professor, Engineering
Tribal Affiliation: Unanagax (Aleut)
Cheryl Wilga
Associate Dean of Math, Natural Science, and Social Science
Professor, Biology
Tribal Affiliation: Dena'ina Athabascan, Kenaitze Tribe
Maria Williams
Professor, Music and Alaska Native Studies
Tribal Affiliation: Tlingit
Amber Christensen Fullmer
Assistant Professor, Human Services
Tribal Affiliation: Inupiaq
Term Faculty
Panigkaq Agatha John-Shields
Assistant Professor, Indigenous Education
Tribal Affiliation: Yup'ik
Sharon Lind
Term Assistant Professor, Business Administration
Tribal Affiliation: Aleut
Paul Ongtooguk
Assistant Professor, Education
Tribal Affiliation: Iñupiat
Adjunct Faculty
Shirley Kendall
Adjunct Faculty, Alaska Native Studies
Marie Meade
Adjunct Faculty, Alaska Native Studies
Sondra Shaginoff-Stuart
Adjunct Faculty, Kenai Peninsula College
Peggy Azuyak
Adjunct Faculty, Kodiak College
Staff
Audrey Alstrom, P.E.
Regional Director, ANSEP
Tribal Affiliation: Alakanuk
Michael Bourdukofsky, P.E.
Chief Operations Officer, ANSEP
Janelle Foss
Fiscal Technician
Stephanie Sanderlin
Student Success Facilitator, RRANN
Tribal Affiliation: Yup'ik and Unangan, Curyung Tribe
Amber L. Sims
Transition Advisor, Native Student Services
Tribal Affiliation: Deg Hit’an Athabascan
Eric Somerville
Database Administrator, ANSEP
Tribal Affiliation: Yup'ik
Yosty Storms
Regional Director, ANSEP
Tribal Affiliation: Inupiaq, Native Village of Unalakleet
Dean Towarak
Accounting Manager, ANSEP
