Jeremy Garcia, (Hopi/Tewa) is Associate Professor of Indigenous Education in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies in the College of Education at the University of Arizona. He is of the Hospoawungwa (Roadrunner) clan. He served as Interim Assistant Vice Provost of Native American Initiatives in the Office of the Provosts at the University of Arizona. Prior to joining University of Arizona, he was an Assistant Professor in the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction and an Endowed Professor of the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). He is co-founding Director of the Indigenous Teacher Education Program (ITEP).
Grounded in critical Indigenous research methodologies, his research focuses on decolonization, critical Indigenous curriculum and pedagogy, Indigenous teacher education, and critical and culturally sustaining family and community engagement. Garcia’s publications include a co-edited book, Indigenizing Education: Transformative Research, Theories, and Praxis (2022) and a co-edited chapter Indigenous youth and families: From schooling contexts to spaces of stewardship and resistance (2023) and a co-edited handbook chapter, The struggles and triumphs of Indigenous teacher education in Canada and the United States (2022).
He continues to support Indigenous communities, educators, and programs with curriculum development that centers Indigenous values and knowledge systems, such as the Hopi Kuuyi (Water) Curriculum and the Hopi Natwani (traditional farming) curriculum in Arizona. He is currently working with Hopi educators to develop a curriculum based on the published volumes, Moquis and Kastiilam: Hopis, Spaniards, and the Trauma of History. He received a doctorate degree in Curriculum Studies from Purdue University and assisted in the development of the first Native American Educational and Cultural Center there.