Dr. Allison Madia (she/they) is a historical sociologist of environment, gender, indigeneity, race, and settler colonialism. Her current project, “Manifesting Settlerhood in the Tohono,” examines the weaponization of water since the twentieth century in Southern Arizona and its impact on wellbeing and social stratification among Tohono O’odham. Madia’s research centers on the appropriation of indigeneity and relationships between Indigenous and settler elites.

Madia received an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is completing a postdoc at Princeton University’s Effron Center for the Study of America. The American Philosophical Society, Indigenous Education Inc., the Mellon Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and Yale University have supported her research. Madia is a citizen of the Tohono O’odham Nation from the Wa:k Community.