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Natalie Avalos
Natalie Avalos is an assistant professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder. She received her doctorate from the University of California at Santa Barbara in religious studies with a special focus on Native American and Indigenous religious traditions and Tibetan Buddhism. Avalos is an ethnographer of religion whose work in comparative Indigeneities explores urban Indian and transnational Tibetan religious life as decolonial praxis. She is currently working on her book manuscript, titled The Metaphysics of Decoloniality: Transnational Indigeneities and Religious Refusal. It argues that the reassertion of land-based metaphysics in Native and Tibetan nations not only de-centres settler colonial claims to legitimate knowledge but also articulates new forms of sovereignty rooted in just (and ideal) relations of power between all persons, human and other-than-human.
Contact: Department of Ethnic Studies, 339 UCB, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0339, USA.