[Bio c. 2017]
Teresa Montoya (Diné) is pursuing her PhD in Cultural Anthropology at New York University where she is also earning a certificate in Culture and Media. In 2013, Montoya produced her first documentary film titled Doing the Sheep Good that traces the return of iconic Navajo-made films, produced in the 1960s visual anthropology experiment Through Navajo Eyes, to their community of origin. Currently Montoya is working on her second short film, The Day Our River Ran Yellow/ Tó Łitso, a Diné centered visual meditation on the land and waterscapes affected by the Gold King Mine spill in August 2015. Themes of environmental toxicity and regulatory politics raised in this film are central to her dissertation project on the discourses of legal and cultural empowerment that inform alternative political formations within and on the borders of the Navajo Nation. More broadly her research interests also include: sovereignty and jurisdiction; biopolitics and personhood; and Indigenous social movements. Her doctoral coursework and research has been generously supported by funding from New York University, the Ford Foundation, the Wenner Gren Foundation, and the National Science Foundation.
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