About meI am a feminist historian versant in the interdisciplinary fields of Native American Studies, Labor Studies, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. My research explores the intersections of race, gender, and ethnicity and their historical consequences. Broadly, I research 20th-century Native experiences in the West drawing on a variety of methodologies. My scholarship excavates histories of “outing” programs, Indian labor exploitation, dispossession and surveillance of Native bodies.
I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. I am an Assistant Professor in the History Department at UC Santa Cruz. My forthcoming book, Unsettling Domesticity: Native Women and 20th Century Federal Indian Policy in the San Francisco Bay Area, examines labor history, and especially gendered Indigenous labor in the context of settler colonialism. Specifically, I examine how Native women domestic workers negotiated and challenged the Bay Area Outing Program. At the heart of my study are Native women’s voices uncovered from federal archives. This project has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Indian Graduate Center, and the Hellman Fellows program among others. My last name is pronounced “keh-LEE-EE-ah-ah.” Hear it here. |
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