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
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
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
Adjunct Faculty
Shirley Kendall
Adjunct Faculty, Tlingit Language and Alaska Native Studies
Marie Meade
Adjunct Faculty, Yup'ik Language and Alaska Native Studies
Sondra Shaginoff-Stuart
Kenai Peninsula College
Staff
Audrey Alstrom, P.E.
ANSEP Regional Director, Middle School Academy
Michael Bourdukofsky, P.E.
ANSEP Chief Operations Officer, Summer Bridge
Janelle Foss
Fiscal Technician
Amber L. Sims
Transition Advisor, Native Student Services
Tribal Affiliation: Deg Hit’an Athabascan
Stephanie Sanderlin
Student Success Facilitator, RRANN
Tribal Affiliation: Yup'ik and Unangan, Curyung Tribe
Yosty Storms
ANSEP Regional Director
Tribal Affiliation: Inupiaq, Native Village of Unalakleet
Dean Towarak
ANSEP Accounting Manager
Michael Ulroan
ANSEP Regional Director, Acceleration Academy
Tribal Affiliation: Cup'ik, Qissunamiut Tribe (Chevak)
Thecla Ulroan
ANSEP Fiscal Coordinator