Scholarship

Tanner, M. N. (2025). Resisting termination: Native American college student activism and the National Indian Youth Council, 1953-1970. History of Education Quarterly, 65(2), 1-30.

Tanner, M. N. (2022/2024). Navajo practices of language ontologies: An historical case of language socialization at Intermountain Indian School. Wicazō Ša Review 37(1-2), 68-102.

Tanner, M.N. (2022). Hauntological pedagogies: Confronting the ghosts of whiteness and moving towards racial and spiritual justice. MDPI: Religions, 13(1) 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13010083

Tanner, M.N. (2023). “Oral history as emancipatory praxis in school leadership.” In P.M. Virella, N. Tanner, & D.A. Thompson (Eds.), Preparing to lead: Narratives of aspiring school leaders in a “post”-COVID world. Information Age Publishing.

Tanner, M.N., and Welton, A.D. (2021). “Using anti-racism to challenge whiteness in educational leadership.” In C.A. Mullen (Ed.), Handbook of Social Justice Interventions in Education, 1-20. Springer.

Tanner, M.N. (2022, November 5). Defending ICWA: The Next Fight Over Tribal Sovereignty. Indian Country Today.

Tanner, M.N. (2022, February 4). Engineering the Mexican Race through Schooling in Depression-Era Wyoming. Cambridge Core blog.

Tanner, N. (2021, April 26). Confronting whiteness in our own backyard. The Beehive Newsletter.

Tanner, N. (2020, April 29). Taking responsibility for the inequality facing the Navajo Nation. The Salt Lake Tribune.

Tanner, N. (2019, March 12). Closing Bennion Elementary would disrupt essential services. The Salt Lake Tribune.

Hanlon, K. (2026, January 27). Spotlighting the legacy of Black educators in Navajo Nation schools. Nevada Today.

O’Hara, S. (2023, February 20). Families meet with Urbana School District superintendent for Wiley Elementary Q&A. WCIA News.

Forrest, S. (2021, March 9). ‘Whiteness’ undermines efforts to address systemic racism in public education. Illinois News Bureau.

Swaak, T. (2018, May 21). From Viral Video to the Classroom: Childish Gambino’s ‘This Is America’ Spurs Discussion on Race, Gun Violence, and History. The 74 Million

Liaison for/with Collaborative for Harmony, Empowerment & Innovation, Inc. (CHEII), a 501(c)(3) non-profit led by Faith Roessel (Diné)

Wiley Strong / Urbana Better Together Parent Action Coalition

Thomas Paine Elementary School PTA

Race Project KC

Judge for UIUC Undergraduate Research Symposium

2025-2026 Co-Chair, DEI Committee, College of Education & Human Development, University of Nevada, Reno

2025-2026 Member, History of Education Society (HES) Program Planning Committee

2022-2024 Division F: History & Historiography Representative, Graduate Student Council, American Educational Research Association (AERA)

2022-2024 Chair, Graduate Student Council, Politics of Education SIG, AERA

2021-2024 Communications Team, Graduate Student Council, University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA)

2021-2023 Member, Graduate Student Council, HES

2020-2022 Member, Graduate Student Advisory Council, College of Education, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign