Paul Apodaca

Paul Apodaca is an associate professor of Anthropology and American Studies at Chapman University and an authority on Native Americans in the United States. In particular, the peoples of Southern California, and on images of Native Americans in non-Native American popular culture.

Apodaca was born in Los Angeles and raised in Tustin, California. His father's family was from the eastern side of the Navajo Reservation, of the Ma'ii deeshgiishinii Clan (Jemez Clan), and his mother's family is Mixton. He received his M.A. in American Indian Studies and his Ph.D. in Folklore and Mythology from UCLA, where he received the award for Outstanding Graduate Student in 1996. [3] He currently lives in Orange, California, with his wife, Paula.

Apodaca currently serves as an associate professor of Anthropology and American Studies at Chapman University and as a visiting professor at UCLA. He has worked as a regional advisor to the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian (representing the California-Nevada-Utah region), and as a selector for the NMAI Native American Film and Video Festival. He has also been a member of the Native California Network, and a board member for the California Council for the Humanities.[4] He is a contributing editor to News from Native California,[5] a past editor of the Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, a teacher-consultant for the Pearson Scott Foresman textbook publishers, and serves on the editorial Board of the Malki Museum Press.[6] An artist and performer in his own right, Apodaca sat in as a spoken word performer with The Dave Brubeck Quartet during the 2009 Brubeck Festival, a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Brubeck's legendary album, Time Out.[7] Apodaca also appears in a special feature segment of the DVD release of the 2009 Nicolas Cage film, Knowing, discussing the cultural significance of apocalypse myths.[8]

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