Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert is a distinguished associate professor in the department of history and a Dean's Fellow and Conrad Humanities Scholar in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Originally from the small village of Upper Moenkopi in northeastern Arizona, Gilbert graduated from The Master's College located in Santa Clarita, California, in 1999 with a B.A.
Prior to this full-time teaching posts, he held the postdoctoral research associate in American Indian Studies.
His first book Education Beyond the Mesas [1] examines the Hopi experience at Sherman Institute, an off reservation Indian boarding school in Riverside, CA.
[3] Furthermore, Gilbert is the co-editor (with Coll Thrush and Charlotte Cote) of the book series Indigenous Confluences with the University of Washington Press.