Hope Martinez is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Doctoral Program in the Department of Political Science at Georgia State University. Her primary research focuses on U.S. Indigenous law and politics with a broad interest in judicial politics, quantitative text analysis, and the effects of colonialism. Hope’s dissertation will identify the mechanisms states use to limit Native sovereignty in Indigenous law cases at the U.S. Supreme Court. She will leverage her dissertation work to provide knowledge to Tribal leaders and advocates of Indigenous protection to support their success against colonial efforts. From her experiences as a single mother to an Afro-Indigenous child, Hope developed a secondary line of research focusing on the decolonization of Indigenous mindsets and the restoration of Native culture. She plans to use the Latino scholarship to fund a survey analyzing colonial mentality within Indigenous communities. Hope earned her BS degree from the University of South Florida, an MS degree from the University of Central Florida, and her MA from Georgia State University. After graduate school, Hope plans to pursue an academic career and create research on Indigenous law and politics while contributing to the liberation of Indigenous and people of color living in colonial structures.
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