Lloyd L. Lee, Ph.D.

Lloyd L. Lee, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Native American Studies Department at the University of New Mexico. He is a citizen of the Navajo Nation and of the Kinyaa’1anii (Towering House) clan, born for the T[’11sch77 (Red Bottom) clan. His maternal grandfather clan is !sh88h7 (Salt) and his paternal grandfather clan is T1b22h1 (Water’s Edge).
Originally from Albuquerque, NM, he went to Dartmouth College and graduated in 1994 with B.A. in history. He then went onto Stanford University where he received his M.A. in Education in 1995. From 1995 to 1999, he taught U.S. History and Native American Studies at Wingate High School (a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school) near Gallup, NM. After teaching for four years, he returned to school at the University of New Mexico, and earned his Ph.D. in American Studies in 2004.
After attaining his doctorate, he was hired by Arizona State University to teach at the West campus in the Language, Cultures and History Department. He taught Native American cultures, histories, and philosophies for three years, before his current stint as assistant professor. His research areas include indigenous and Navajo identity, indigenous and Navajo masculinities, Navajo transformative research, indigenous leadership development, indigenous philosophies, and indigenous community building. He is the book review editor for the academic journal American Indian Quarterly.
His first book Diné Masculinities: Conceptualizations and Reflections will come out in the summer of 2013. His recent publications include: “Gender, Navajo Leadership, and ‘Retrospective Falsification’” in AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 8(3), 277–289; “Navajo Transformative Scholarship in the Twenty-First Century” in Wicazo Sa Review, 25(1), 33–45; and “Reclaiming Indigenous Intellectual, Political, and Geographic Space” in The American Indian Quarterly, 32(1), 96–110.