Kevin Lujan Lee
Connect with Kevin
About Kevin
Lee's research focuses on Indigenous politics in North America and Oceania (the Pacific Islands), with a particular interest in the institutional, political-economic and cultural dimensions of Indigenous social movements. Overarching themes in Lee's writings include law and policy, community organizing, policy advocacy, Indigenous self-determination and sovereignty, organizations, and migration. His work bridging Indigenous and participatory action research methodologies have received awards from the American Sociological Association's Indigenous Peoples and Native Nations Section, the American Political Science Association, and the Western Political Science Association.
Contributions
In the News
Publications
Convenes Indigenous artists, Indigenous community leaders and urban planning scholars in an interdisciplinary dialogue on imagining and realizing more just Indigenous futures.
Draws on the burgeoning literary and cultural movement of Indigenous futurisms to articulate a methodological framework centering Indigenous hope as a meaningful object of analysis. Highlights how this framework is operationalized in the co-design and mixed-methods analysis of the 2021 Guåhan Survey.
Analyzes how Indigenous Chamorus in Guåhan combine local community organizing, federal environmental legal action, and appeals to international law on Indigenous rights, to combat ongoing US colonization and military occupation.
Offers "decolonial subjectivities" as a concept to qualitatively measure the personal transformations evident when everyday community members participate in decolonial participatory action research.
Analyzes how empire and colonialism opens up particular kinds of migration pathways for Pacific settlers and their descendants who obtain legal citizenship in the "Pacific Triangle" (comprising Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and the United States).
Articulates the benefits of a decolonial quantitative approach to Indigenous politics research, through analyzing the relationship between Indigenous and national identities in the 2019 Native Hawaiian Survey.
Analyzes how California worker rights organizations provide workforce development services in low-wage industries with limited opportunities for skill development and career mobility; and how they leverage community organizing and policy advocacy to transform how skills are valued, recognized, and cultivated within low-wage labor markets.
Analyzes the intersectional disadvantages faced by transgender patients of color in a healthcare system that forces them to choose between racist and transphobic healthcare providers.