Natalie Youngbull

Natalie Rose Youngbull, Ph.D., is an enrolled citizen of the Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes (located in Oklahoma) and descended from the Ft. Peck Assiniboine & Sioux tribes of Montana. She is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Department at the University of Oklahoma. She serves as an editor of the Tribal College and University Research Journal (TCURJ), the first peer-reviewed journal focused on research based within TCUs. Natalie is a co-editor of the recently published book, Developments Beyond the Asterisk: New Scholarship and Frameworks for Understanding Native Students in Higher Education. 

Natalie studies the experiences of American Indian Gates Millennium Scholars (AIGMS), Native/Indigenous student success, impacts of Historically Native American Fraternities and Sororities (HNAFs), and Native Nation Building, and intellectual leadership and capacity building within tribal colleges and universities (TCUs).