About meI am a feminist historian versant in the fields of Native American Studies, Labor Studies, Gender Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. I am an Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. My research explores the intersections of race, gender, and labor and their historical consequences. Broadly, I research 20th-century Native experiences in the West. My scholarship excavates histories of “outing” programs, Indian labor exploitation, dispossession and surveillance of Native bodies.
My book, Refusing Settler Domesticity: Native Women's Labor and Resistance in the Bay Area Outing Program, examines gendered Indigenous labor in the context of settler colonialism. Specifically, I examine how Native women domestic workers negotiated and challenged the Bay Area Outing Program. At the heart of my book are Native women’s voices uncovered from federal archives. Buy direct from the University of Washington Press and use the code WINTER24 for a 40% off and free shipping My last name is pronounced “keh-LEE-EE-ah-ah.” Hear it here. 
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Photo by Jim McCambridge
Bernice Hunter to Matron Van Every, July 5, 1935
Oakland Tribune, June 19, 1925
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