Project Title: Using the Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (CMPS) data to Explore AIAN Health
Tennille Larzelere Marley
Tennille Larzelere Marley (Dzil Ligai Sian N’dee – White Mountain Apache) is an associate professor of American Indian studies. She earned her PhD in sociology, focusing on the sociology of health, from the University of New Mexico in 2013, and holds an MPH and a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from the University of Arizona. Dr. Marley’s work is grounded in the American Indian Studies (AIS) paradigm, which centers sovereignty and Indigenousness to protect and strengthen Indian sovereignty, self-determination, self-sufficiency, and human rights. She emphasizes oral history, traditional knowledge, and collaborative partnerships with American Indian nations and communities, integrating Indigenous and non-Indigenous ways of knowing. This paradigm frames research, teaching, and service as a sacred responsibility and guides all aspects of her academic work. Her research is informed by her upbringing on the White Mountain Apache Reservation and by the social determinants of health. She examines the social and structural forces — often unique to sovereign Indigenous nations — that shape American Indian health, with particular attention to racial residential segregation. She has also published on Indigenous data sovereignty and the obligations of researchers and universities to American Indian nations.
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