Haley Rains

Education:

B.A., Indigenous and American Indian Studies, Haskell Indian Nations University; M.A., Native American Studies, University of California, Davis; Ph.D., Native American Studies, University of California, Davis;

Dissertation:

We Are Not Your Savages: Deconstructing the Myth of the American Frontier through Native American Visual Sovereignty

Thesis Advisor:

Zoila Mendoz Professor of Native American Studies, University of California, Davis

Research Topic:

But for the Grace of God: The Opioid Epidemic in Indian Country

Mentor:

Joseph Erb, Professor of Film and Digital Media, and Amy Lonetree, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Cruz

Current Position:

President's and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Film and Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz

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