Distinguished Professor: Native American Studies Office phone:
505 277-3917
tslee@unm.edu
Tiffany S. Lee, Ph.D. is Dibé Łizhiní (Blacksheep) Diné from Crystal, New Mexico, and Oglala Lakota from Pine Ridge, South Dakota. Dr. Lee is a Distinguished Professor in Native American Studies at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Her research examines educational and culturally-based outcomes of Indigenous language immersion schools, the relationship of Diné language learning to wellbeing, and Native youth perspectives on language reclamation, and socio-culturally centered education. Her work has been published in journals, such as the American Journal of Education, Harvard Educational Review, the Journals of Language, Identity, and Education and American Indian Education; and in books, such as Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World, The Yazzie Case: Building a Public Education System for our Indigenous Future, and Indigenous language revitalization in the Americas. She is a former high school social studies and language arts teacher at schools on the Navajo Nation and at Santa Fe Indian School. She is currently collaborating with colleagues on a recently opened Diné language nest in Albuquerque and to prepare Diné language immersion educators through the Diné Language Teacher Institute.