Current lab members
Eve Tuck
Founding DirectorEve Tuck is James Weldon Johnson Professor of Indigenous Studies at Steinhardt and Gallatin at New York University. She is the founding director of the new Provostial Center for Indigenous Studies at NYU, called the Center for Collaborative Indigenous Research with Communities and Lands (Center CIRCL).
She is the former Canada Research Chair of Indigenous Methodologies with Youth and Communities at the University of Toronto (2017-2024). She was a William T Grant Scholar (2015-2020) and a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow (2011-2012).
Tuck is Unangax̂ and is an enrolled member of the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island, Alaska. She grew up outside of her community, living in Pennsylvania as a child, and New York City as a young adult. She earned a PhD in Urban Education from The Graduate Center, The City University of New York in 2008.
Tuck's work is on urban education and Indigenous studies. As a whole, her research focuses on how Indigenous social thought can be engaged to create more fair and just social policy, more meaningful social movements, and robust approaches to decolonization.
Learn more at evetuck.com
Co-Director & NYU Provost Postdoctoral Fellow Jade Nixon
Jade Nixon is an Afro- and Indo-Caribbean Black feminist scholar. She received her PhD from the Women & Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. Her research examines the relationships between place, waters, race, girlhood, and relationality.
Before joining New York University, Jade served as the inaugural Black and Indigenous Waterways Research Fellow at the University of Toronto. Her doctoral research engaged Black women’s theories of gathering with the Atlantic Ocean and with friends onboard the Ubersoca Cruise ship. Her postdoctoral research builds on this work to examine how Black and Indigenous girls in New York City understand their relationships to urban waterways and conceptualize friendship.
JP Craig
JP Craig engages in land education and participatory research with youth and communities, with a focus on climate change. Their most recent research contributed to Youth Climate Action in Toronto and The Building Black Resilience Portal.
JP's writing has been published in Educational Philosophy & Theory, The Journal of Environmental Education, andJournal of Childhood Studies. Their PhD is at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, with an M.Ed. and M.F.A. from North Carolina State University.
NYU Provost Postdoctoral Fellow 
Jo Billows
Jo Billows (they/them) is Northern Coast Salish (Homalco) and a PhD student in the Sociology of Education Department at New York University. Their research interests include land education, visual and participatory research methods, and queer and urban Indigeneity.
Lab Manager & Graduate Research Assistant
Nicole Franklin
Nicole Franklin (MSW, RSW) (she/her) is a Black Caribbean Social Worker and PhD student in the Sociology of Education program at New York University, Steinhardt. Nicole’s research interests include exploring Black and Indigenous feminist theories of care through critical arts-based research methods.
Graduate Research Assistant
Diane Hill
Diane Hill (she/her) is a member of the Oneida Nation of the Thames. She is a PhD student in the Sociology of Education program at NYU Steinhardt. Diane’s research is situated within Critical Indigenous Studies and Education. Her research attends to theories of sovereignty and self-determination through campus organizing among Indigenous students.
Graduate Research Assistant
Undergraduate Research AssistantKevin de Almeida
Kevin de Almeida is a fourth-year student at Gallatin School of Individualized Study, concentrating on community development and urban design. Through his coursework in sociology and architecture, he hopes to design a concentration on how the built environment shapes social relationships and everyday living. He is currently on the BA-MUP track with the Wagner School of Public Service, where he is pursuing a Master’s in Urban Planning.
Undergraduate Research AssistantAriya Reddy
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