Dr. Elizabeth Redd

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology

Dr. Elizabeth Redd is the Director of American Indian Studies at ISU and an assistant professor of Anthropology as well as a mother of four thoughtful and kind adult children. Dr. Redd’s research focuses on language revitalization, language sovereignty, linguistic resilience, and Native-engaged research ethics. In addition to her teaching and research, Dr. Redd also engages in service to Native communities. She has spent the last 20 years of her schooling and career working to support Native communities in working with their languages. She has worked to record and document Native languages at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History’s language archives. She has attended community and university Native language classes and supported teachers in both types of programs, led workshops and outreach activities to raise awareness of the value of Native languages for local and campus communities, and worked for many years for the Native American Youth Language Fair. She was the Visiting Director of the Native American Languages and Linguistics Masters’ program at the University of Arizona, where she hosted language fairs and even added her own weight to sandbags to hold down a screen on a very windy night at a family night movie on the lawn screening of Finding Nemo in Navajo. The work she is proudest of, though, outside of raising her children, is in teaching and supporting Native students to do language work with their communities.