Scholarship

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2024 Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation. Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (NSF EPSCoR). Indigenous-Led Cultural Burns and Research in Resiliency with Tribes. Awarded.

2024 Principal Investigator. University of Kansas Office of Research New Faculty Research Development Grant. Building Tribal Partnerships for Indigenous-led Cultural Fire Research in Kansas. Awarded.

2023 Co-Principal Investigator. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Sub-award from National Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership. With Johnson, J.T., Sutley, E., Cartwright. P., and Brewer, J.  Awarded.

2023 Co-Principal Investigator. Heritage Conservation Council of Douglas County. Heritage and Culture Grant. "Here-ing" Cultural and Natural Heritage: Regenerating Indigenous Cultural Fire in Douglas County. With Parsons, S., Orr, J. and Van de Riet, K. Awarded.

Adams, M.M. and Sarvestani, Daniel. 2024 “Indigenous Peoples Rights Discourse: Toward Hemispheric Indigenous Climate and Environmental Justice”. Journal of Environmental Justice. doi.org/10.1089/env.2023.0076

Adams, M.M. 2024. Indigenous Fire Data Sovereignty: Applying Indigenous Data Sovereignty Principles to Fire Research. Journal of Fire 7, 222. doi.org/10.3390/fire7070222 *

* Selected "Editor's Choice 2024" *

Fisk, J. J., K. M. Leong, R. E. W. Berl, J. W. Long, A. C. Landon, M. M. Adams, D. L. Hankins, C. K. Williams, F. K. Lake, and J. Salerno. 2024. Evolving wildlife management cultures of governance through Indigenous Knowledges and perspectives. Journal of Wildlife Management 8(4)1-25. doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.22584

Adams, M.M. 2023. Indigenous Ecologies: Cultivating Fire, Plants, and Climate Futurity. Artemisia 49(2):20-29. https://www.cnps.org/publications/scientific-journal 

Adams, M. M., Gonzales, P.,  Almendariz, D., and Middleton, B.R. 2023. Forthcoming. "Rematriating Fire: Practices and Protocols of Native Women Reclaiming Cultural Fire in California.” In LandKeeping: Restoring Indigenous Fire Stewardship and Ecological Partnerships in North America. Edited by J. Aldern and T.L. Gregor. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press (Under review).

Tom, E., Adams, M. M., and Goode, R.W. 2023. “Solastalgia to Soliphilia: Cultural Fire, Climate Change, and Indigenous Healing”. Journal of Ecopsychology. doi.org/10.1089/eco.2022.0085

Hernandez, J., Adams, M. M., Vold, V., and Jennings, L. 2024. “Honoring our Responsibilities while “Doing Science”— Indigenous Scientists’ Perspectives” in Indigenous Voices: Critical Reflections on Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Oregon State University Press (Under review).

Nelson, M. K,  Adams, M. M., and Middleton, B.R. “Landscapes of Trust in Native North America” in Indigenous Perspectives on Archaeology: Community Insights on Heritage, Science, and the Arts. Routledge Press Handbooks. Forthcoming 2024.  

Adams, M.M. 2023. “Storytelling through Fire: The Socio-Ecological and Cultural Reclamation of Indigenous Cultural Fire in Northern California.” PhD diss., The University of California Davis. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. 

Adams, M.M., Emery, N.C.,  Brouder, S.J., Benjamin, T.J., and Gibson, K.D. The Effect of Biochar on Native and Invasive Prairie Plant Species. Invasive Plant Science and Management. 6(2):197-207. February 2013. 

Adams, M.M. The Effects of Biochar Amendments on Native and Invasive Prairie Plants, Purdue University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing. AAI1530163. May 2013.

International Invited Lecture: “Resurgence and Resilience of Indigenous Cultural fire in the U.S.” Trent University, Department of Indigenous Environmental Science and Studies. Ontario, CAN. May 2024.

Special Organized Session: Indigenous Fire Resurgence in California: Research, Praxis, and Collaboration. Association for Fire Ecology. Monterey, CA 2023. Organized with Tony Marks-Block, PhD (California State University-East Bay), Peter Nelson, PhD (University of California, Berkeley), Don Hankins, PhD (California State University, Chico), and Frank Lake, PhD (US Forest Service).  “Storytelling and Cultural Fire: Rebuilding Plant and Soil Health in Northern California”. Invited symposium talk. 

Invited Panel: “Indigenous Cultural Fire: Environment and the Legacy of Settler Colonialism”. California State Library seminar “Environmental Legacies of Settler Colonialism in California." December 2023. 

International Webinar: “Decolonising Fire: Indigenous Land Stewardship and Climate Futurity”. Invited International Webinar. Australian Centre’s Critical Public Conversations Series: Country, Climate, Colonialism. August 2023. 

Invited Lecture: Harvard Graduate School. “Tending the Land: the Art and Science of Cultural Fire” with Margo Robbins and The Honorable Chairman Ron Goode. Harvard University. March 2023.

National Conference: “Indigenous Ecology and Environmental Science”. Ecology, Environmental and Evolutionary Sciences panel at the Ford Fellows National Conference. Washington, DC. October 2022.