Trey Adcock, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies
Expertise:
Curriculum Theory, Social Foundations of Education, American Indian Studies, Decolonial Studies, Indigenous Methodologies, Indigenous Education, Land Acknowledgement, Cherokee Studies, Land-Based Education, Traditional Ecological Knowledge Curriculum, Technology Integration in K-12; Cultural Studies, Oral history, Indigitization, Non-profit management, Community-based praxis, Grant Writing, Higher Education Recruitment and Retention
Bio:
Adcock is an expert in Curriculum Theory broadly, focusing on American Indian Education. His work includes recruiting and retaining American Indian students in Higher Education, documenting a Bureau of Indian Affairs-run day school in the TutiYi “Snowbird” Cherokee Community and technology integration at an American Indian boarding school in Oklahoma. Dr. Adcock has published in the Journal of American Indian Education, Anthropology & Education Quarterly, Journal of Thought, Teaching Tolerance and Readings in Race, Ethnicity and Immigration. He currently serves as the Executive Director of the Center for Native Health 501(3)c and sits on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Cherokee Studies.
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