Clint Carroll is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies and Faculty Director of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He received his doctorate from the University of California Berkeley in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, and his bachelor’s degree from the University of Arizona in Anthropology, with a minor in American Indian Studies.
A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, Clint has worked with Cherokee Elders, Knowledge Keepers, and Natural Resource Managers in Oklahoma for over two decades toward perpetuating Cherokee ecological knowledge and protecting tribal lands. His community-based work bridges research and education and aims to inform tribal environmental policy in the Cherokee Nation. His first book, Roots of Our Renewal: Ethnobotany and Cherokee Environmental Governance (2015, University of Minnesota Press), draws from his ethnographic and historical research to explore Cherokee relationships to land through time, as mediated and influenced by migration, colonial dispossession, and Cherokee political innovations.
Clint has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Udall Foundation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Science Foundation. He is a recipient of the 2021 Cherokee National Community Leadership Award and was selected as the 2024 Sequoyah Fellow at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. He currently co-edits the Cambridge University Press series, Elements in Indigenous Environmental Research, and is co-editor with Sarah Hunt / Tłaliłila’ogwa for the forthcoming volume, Indigenous Political Ecology (University of Minnesota Press, Spring 2027). Clint also serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees for Indigenous Education, Inc. (home of the Cobell Scholarship).