J. Jeffery Clark (Diné), assistant professor of English and Indigenous studies at Arizona State University, studies Diné resistance to domination. His research areas include Indigenous stories, decolonization, settler colonialism, and Indigenous futurity and imagination.

Elise Boxer (Dakota), associate professor of history and Native American studies at the University of South Dakota, studies Mormon settler colonialism and indigeneity. Her most important work happens as a mother to three young boys.

"In this edited volume, Clark and Boxer utilize the term practitioner theorist to describe Indigenous Studies graduates who theorize, produce, and apply knowledge within and between their nations and academia"--