Rachel Rose Starks

RACHEL ROSE STARKS(Zuni/Navajo)

has over fifteen years of experience studying Native governance and social and economic development. Rachel has participated in research on per capita distributions of tribal revenue, comparing the tribal economic changes from 1990-2000 using the U.S. Census, Native arts leaderships, border tribes, asset building, tribal justice systems, Native control of health care, and Indigenous rural economic development in Alberta, Canada.

She has most recently published on tribes and international borders – Native Nations and U.S. Borders: Responding to Challenges to Indigenous Culture, Citizenship, and Security, chapters in edited volumes on U.S.- Mexico border issues, and a report to the UN Universal Periodic Review, “Indigenous Peoples' Rights to Exist, Self Determination, Language and Due Process in Migration.”

Currently a PhD candidate in American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona, she has a BA (2000) in Sociology from Wheaton College, IL, and an MA (2002) in Sociology from the University of Arizona where she wrote her thesis on institutional form and economic development in the New Mexico Pueblos.

Selected Publications

Tulk, Janice Esther, and Rachel Starks. 2020. “Editors’ note on special issue on indigenous knowledges, priorities and processes in qualitative research.” Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management. 15(1).

Cabrera Lopez, Juanita, Patrisia Gonzales, Rachel Rose Bobelu Starks, and Lorena Brady. 2020. “Indigenous Peoples' Rights to Exist, Self Determination, Language and Due Process in Migration.” Submission to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review of United States of America Third Cycle 36th Session of the UPR Human Rights Council May 2020.

Starks, R., & Jorgensen, M. 2016. Land and Indigenous business development in Canada. In K. G. Brown, M. B. Doucette, & J. E. Tulk (Eds.). Indigenous Business in Canada: Principles and Practices. Sydney, Nova Scotia: Cape Breton University Press.

Starks, Rachel Rose, Adrian T. Smith, Mary Beth Jäger, Miriam Jorgensen, and Stephen Cornell. 2016. "Tribal Child Welfare Codes as Sovereignty in Action. [Conference Edition]." Paper presented at the 2016 National Indian Child Welfare Association Annual Meeting, St. Paul, MN, April 4-6, 2016. Portland, OR: National Indian Child Welfare Association; Tucson, AZ: Native Nations Institute.

Starks, R.R., and A. Quijada-Mascarenas. 2012 (in press). Indigenous peoples and the U.S.-Mexico border wall. In The Border Wall between Mexico and the United States. Venues, Mechanisms and Stakeholders for a Constructive Dialogue, eds. A. Cùrdova, C.A. de la Parra, and E. Peters. Tlalpan, Mexico: SEMARNAT.

Starks, R.R., J. McCormack, and S. Cornell. 2011. Native Nations and U.S. Borders: Challenges to Indigenous Culture, Citizenship, and Security. Tucson: Native Nations Institute.

Cornell, S., R. Goldtooth, M. Jorgensen, R.R. Starks, and others. 2010. Making First Nations Law: The Listuguj Mi'gmaq Fishery. Tucson and Vancouver: Native Nations Institute and National Centre for First Nations Governance.

Starks R.R., and A. Quijada-Mascarenas. 2009. Convergence of Borders: Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Conservation at the U.S.-Mexico Border. In Conservation of Shared Environments: Learning from the United States and Mexico, eds. Edited L. Lopez-Hoffman, E. McGovern, R.G. Varady, and K. Flessa. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Jorgensen, M., and R. Starks. 2008. Leadership Development in the Native Arts and Culture Sector. New York: Ford Foundation. Subsumed in the 2010 Ford Foundation report, Native Arts and Cultures: Research, Growth, and Opportunities for Philanthropic Support, as "Supporting a Burgeoning Revival of Native Arts: Leaders Wanted," pp. 16-27.

Jorgensen, M., M. Begay, N. Pryor, A. Sadongei, J. Snell, R. Starks, and J. Timeche. 2005. Native Cultural Arts Organizations: Who They Are and What They Need. Report prepared for Atlatl, Inc. Tucson: Native Nations Institute.