Natalie Avalos, PhD

  • She/Her/Hers
  • Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies
  • Dalai Lama Fellows
  • Mindful Campus Program

Natalie Avalos is an assistant professor in the Ethnic Studies department at °µÍø½ûÇø. She is an ethnographer of religion who received her Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara with a special focus on Native American and Indigenous Religious Traditions and Tibetan Buddhism. She is currently working on her manuscript titled Decolonizing Metaphysics: Transnational Indigeneities and Religious Refusal, which explores urban Indian and Tibetan refugee religious life as decolonial praxis. She is a Chicana of Apache descent, born and raised in the Bay Area.

Studies: Mindful Campus Program