Andrea McComb Sanchez

Interests

Teaching

American Indian Religious Traditions, Religion in the Southwest, Religion and Ecology, Theory and Method in the Study of Religion, Religion and Colonialism.

Research

Native American Religious Traditions, Pueblo Indian Patron Saint Feast Days, Native American Christianities, Religion and Colonialism in the Southwest, Religion and Foodways, Religion and Ecology.

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Chapters

• McComb Sanchez, A. M. (2020). How are foodways related to Native American religious traditions?. In Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes. Equinox Press.
• McComb Sanchez, A. M. (2021). Balance and a Bean: Restoring Himdag through Traditional Farming and Sacred Knowledge. In Native Foodways: Indigenous North American Religious Traditions and Foods(pp 33-50). Suny University Press.

Journals/Publications

• McComb Sanchez, A. (2020). Resistance through secrecy and integration: Pueblo Indians, Catholicism, and the subversion of colonial authority. Religion, 50(2), 196-214. doi:10.1080/0048721x.2020.1713514
• McComb Sanchez, A. M. (2020). Resistance through Secrecy and Integration: Pueblo Indians, Catholicism, and the Subversion of Colonial Authority. Religion. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2020.1713514

Presentations

• McComb Sanchez, A. M. (2021, November). Pueblo Feast Days as Indigenized Catholicism. American Academy of Religion. Online.
• McComb Sanchez, A. M. (2020, June). Roundtable panel participant "Indigenous Religion and Spirituality". Eiteljorg Museum digital roundtable on "Religion in the American Southwest". Indianapolis, Indiana. Changed to digital format because of Covid-19: Eiteljorg Muesum.
• McComb Sanchez, A. M. (2019, April). Becoming a Tradition: Pueblo Indian Patron Saint Feast Days as Resistance and Adaptation. Invited lecture. Barnard College at Columbia University: Department of Religion.
• McComb Sanchez, A. M. (2019, April). The Interconnection Between Place, Narratives, Community, and Ceremony in Pueblo Indian Patron Saint Feast Days. Graduate colloquium - presentation. Yale Divinity School: Institute of Sacred Music.
• McComb Sanchez, A. M. (2019, June). Praying with Rain. International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture. Cork, Ireland: ISSRNC.
• McComb Sanchez, A. M. (2019, March). 'We have both Church and Kiva': Pueblo Indian Catholicism and Colonial Resistance. American Academy of Religion Western region. Phoenix, AZ: AAR.
• McComb Sanchez, A. M. (2019, November). Being an Ally in the Academy. American Academy of Religion annual meeting. San Diego: AAR.
• McComb Sanchez, A. M. (2018, June). Patron Saint Feast Days - A History of Resistance and Negotiation. Public academic talk. Dixon, New Mexico.
• McComb Sanchez, A. M., & Simmons, C. (2018, October). Keep it Secret, Keep it Safe: Subverting Colonialism through Religion. Tucson Humanities Festival. Tucson, AZ: COH.
• McComb Sanchez, A. M. (2017, June). Resistance through Appropriation and Adaptation: the Creation of Pueblo Indian Catholicism. Subtle Subversions: Resisting Colonialism Through Religion. Bochum, Germany: CERES.
• McComb Sanchez, A. M. (2016, November). Boundaries in the Borderlands: Pueblo Indian Patron Saint Feast Days and the Negotiation of Catholicism. American Academy of Religion annual meeting. San Antonio.
• McComb Sanchez, A. M. (2015, March 6). Keynote: It's not just food! Religious Traditions, Native Foodways, and Community Health among the Tohono O'odham. Symposium on Native Food Ways, Environmentalism, and Biocolonialism. University of California Santa Barbara: American Indian and Indigenous Collective.
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  I was invited to be one of two keynote speakers for this symposium.
• McComb Sanchez, A. M. (2015, October). The Role of Religion in the Colonization and Consolidation of the American Southwest. Colonial Conquest in the Nazi East and the American West: Value and Limits of Comparative Approaches. Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ: Martin-Springer Institute.
• McComb Sanchez, A. (2014, November). Restoring Himdaq: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and the Tohono O'odham. American Academy of Religion annual meeting. San Diego.
• McComb Sanchez, A. M. (2013, October). Rethinking Compartmentalization: Pueblo Indian Patron Saint Feast Days as Sites of Continuity, Adaptation, and Agency. 60 Minutes from Indian country. University of Arizona: American Indian Studies.
• McComb Sanchez, A. M. (2012, November). From Franciscans to Tourists: Pueblo Indian Patron Saint's Feast Days and the Colonization of New Mexico. American Academy of Religion annual meeting. Chicago.
• McComb Sanchez, A. M. (2011, May). Catholic Patron Saint's Feast Days and Pueblo Cultural Survival. Native American and Indigenous Studies Association annual meeting. Sacramento, CA.
• McComb Sanchez, A. M. (2009, November). Shifting Ideologies: Franciscans in New Mexico post 1692. American Academy of Religion annual meeting.

Reviews

• McComb Sanchez, A. M. (2015. Review of Choosing the Jesus Way.