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• Janessa Esquible (Mexican-American and Ojibwe)
• Karen Grosskreutz
• Kendrick Hautala (Yup'ik)
• Nick Jacuk (Kahtnuht’ana Dena’ina)
• Alexis Jenkins
• Kimberly Kivvaq Pikok (Iñupiaq)
• Natasha Hayden (Alutiiq/Sugpiaq)
• Craig Chythlook (Yup'ik)
• Tazia Wagner (Ts'msyen, Łingít, Haida, Athabascan)

* = student author

Carothers, C., J. Black, S.J. Langdon, R. Donkersloot, *D. Ringer, *J. Coleman, *E.R. Gavenus, W. Justin, M. Williams, F. Christiansen, C. Stevens, *B. Woods, S. Clark, P.M. Clay, *L. Mack, *J. Raymond-Yakoubian, A. Akall'eq Sanders, B.L. Stevens, and A. Whiting. 2021. Indigenous peoples and salmon stewardship: a critical relationship. Ecology and Society 26(1): 16.  

Donkersloot, R., J.C. Black, C. Carothers, D. Ringer, W. Justin, P.M. Clay, M.R. Poe, E.R. Gavenus, W. Voinot-Baron, C. Stevens, M. Williams, J. Raymond-Yakoubian, F. Christiansen, S.J. Breslow, S.J. Langdon, J.M. Coleman, and S.J. Clark. 2020. Assessing the sustainability and equity of Alaska salmon fisheries through a well-being framework. Ecology and Society 25(2): 18. 

Zanotti, L., C. Carothers, *C. Apok, *S. Huang, *J. Coleman, and C. Ambrozek. 2020. Political ecology and decolonial research: Co-production with the Iñupiat in Utqiaġvik. Journal of Political Ecology 27(1): 43–66.

Charnley, S., C. Carothers, T. Satterfield, A. Levine, M.R. Poe, K. Norman, J. Donatuto, S.J. Breslow, M.B. Mascia, P.S. Levin, X. Basurto, C.C. Hicks, C. Garcia-Quijano, and K. St. Martin. 2017. Evaluating the best available social science for natural resource management decision-making. Environmental Science & Policy 73:80–88.

Carothers, C. 2015. Fisheries privatization, social transitions, and well-being in Kodiak, Alaska. Marine Policy 61:313–322.

Carothers, C., C. Brown, K.J. Moerlein, J.A. López, D.B. Andersen, and B. Retherford. 2014. Measuring perceptions of climate change in northern Alaska: pairing ethnography with cultural consensus analysis. Ecology and Society 19(4): 27. 

Carothers, C., and C. Chambers*. 2012. Fisheries privatization and the remaking of fishery systems. Environment and Society 3(1): 39–59.

* = student

2021. Alaska's Salmon and People: Synthesizing Knowledge Systems and Dimensions. Carothers, C., P. Westley, J. Black, and *D. Ringer, guest editors for special feature. Ecology and Society. 

2018. Sea change in fisheries governance. D.G. Webster, E. Cardwell, C. Carothers, and F. McCormack, guest editors for special issue. Elementa.  

2016. Considering communities in fisheries management. C. Lyons and C. Carothers, guest editors for special issue. Marine Policy 74:1–350.&�Բ�����;

2014. Conceptual, methodological, practical, and ethical challenges in studying and applying indigenous knowledge. C. Carothers, M. Moritz, and R. Zarger, guest editors for special issue. Ecology and Society 19(4): 43.

2012. Fishing People of the North: Cultures, Economies, and Management Responding to Change. C. Carothers, K.R. Criddle, C.P. Chambers, P.J. Cullenberg, J.A. Fall, A.H. Himes-Cornell, J.P. Johnsen, N.S. Kimball, C.R. Menzies, and E.S. Springer, eds. Alaska Sea Grant, ����vlog����.

2008. Enclosing the Fisheries: People, Places, and Power. Symposium 68. M. Lowe and C. Carothers, eds. American Fisheries Society. 

• Environmental anthropology
• Political ecology
• Marine policy
• Fishing communities

I am an environmental anthropologist with broad interests in human-environment relationships, particularly in marine and fisheries systems. In one central area of study, I explore the shifts in fishing livelihoods as fishing rights become privatized. In another, I partner with indigenous communities in the Arctic to study social-ecological change and traditional ways of life and work toward decolonizing science.

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  (Funded by National Science Foundation, Lead Project Team: ����vlog����: Courtney Carothers, Jessica Black [Gwich’in], Charlene Stern [Gwich'in], Peter Westley)
  
  Tamamta, a Yup’ik and Sugpiaq word meaning "all of us," is centered on elevating 14,000+ years of Indigenous stewardship and bridging Indigenous and Western sciences to transform graduate education and research in fisheries and marine sciences. 

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  (Funded by National Science Foundation & Salmon Connect Partnership, PI: Jessica Black [Gwich'in] and Co-PI Rachel Donkersloot)
  
  Inequities in the salmon system are paramount. These inequities stem from a historical context of colonialism, and are perpetuated in current management systems. These inequities are evident in many dimensions of the salmon system, including: the criminalization of subsistence, the dramatic loss of Alaska Native fishing rights, and the exclusion and marginalization of Tribes, Alaska Native fishing families and communities and Indigenous values and ways of knowing from science and management processes. These inequities have had significant effects on community health and well-being on multiple levels and affect the ability of future generations to learn, grow, and continue traditional lifeways. These issues will not be reconciled until Indigenous voices are meaningfully heard and given power to enact and participate in the decision-making processes. The goal of Indigenizing Salmon Management is to use a deeply participatory approach to document the breadth and depth of Indigenous values, knowledge, management and governance systems connected to salmon across Alaska and to use this wisdom to improve the current salmon management systems in Alaska.
  
  
• Planning: CRISES: Center for Indigenous Knowledge and Stewardship (funded by National Science Foundation; lead team Courtney Carothers. Alisa Alexander, Jessica Black, Charlene Stern, Peter Westley)

Addressing national and global crises taking place at the intersection of society and environmental relations requires innovation and transformative approaches. Current approaches from US research have focused exclusively on western scientific disciplines. What is missing is the breadth and depth of Indigenous knowledge systems. This planning grant convenes a group of university researchers (Indigenous and non-Indigenous scientists) and Tribal leaders and partners to generate a new vision of how universities and Tribal Nations can work together to develop new research protocols and projects to address the social and environmental crises facing not just Tribes, but all communities all across our nation. This Indigenous-led convening uplifts Tribal leadership together with western science expertise to collaboratively vision and co-develop a proposal for the Center for Indigenous Knowledge and Stewardship (CIKS).

As Indigenous scholars, social scientists, natural scientists, and Tribal leaders, our team has worked across cultural and disciplinary boundaries over years of collaboration to build relationships and trust necessary to advance the goals of this work in effective and culturally appropriate ways. Our evidence-based approach to transforming research processes includes an elevation of Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies, Indigenous rights and values, Indigenous knowledge, language, stories, protocols, and practices. The Center for Indigenous Knowledge and Stewardship generates a new vision of how universities and Tribes can work together to address the social and environmental crises of our time. There is a growing need for scientists trained in knowledge co-production and for inclusive science to correct the systematic exclusion of Indigenous peoples and knowledge systems from conventional western science research approaches. Our convening and collaboration to co-develop a full proposal for CIKS will itself generate and advance scholarship on knowledge co-production and expand environmental sciences and governance processes to better include western social sciences, Indigenous knowledge systems, and One Health frameworks. CIKS would be a national model for training and research that bridges Indigenous and western sciences to address seemingly intractable social-environmental crises. CIKS's focus on addressing critical crises facing Indigenous and all communities across the nation will improve health and wellbeing of people and environments.