Ashley Cordes (Coquille/KōKwel) is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Media in ENVS and Data Science at the University of Oregon and a recent American Council of Learned Societies Fellow. Her research lies at the intersection of Indigenous science and technology studies, digital media, and environmental/place-based studies. She is interested in how Indigenous culture and technology producers leverage discursive, technological, and media forms of “digital Indigeneity” toward Tribal economic independence, representational and data sovereignty, Indigenous cultural revitalization, and the resurgence of Indigenous knowledge systems. Her research in AI has been published in the Indigenous Protocols Artificial Intelligence position paper and her other works on representation, digital humanities, and Indigenous methods have been published in journals such as Cultural Studies >Critical Methodologies, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, and Feminist Media Studies. She is the author of the book, Indigenous Currencies: Leaving Some for the Rest in the Digital Age in production with MIT Press.

Website with accessible pdf copies of research: https://ashleycordes.github.io/

Currently accepting doctoral students in Indigenous digital media.