Clint Carroll

Career Carroll works with Cherokee people who reside in Oklahoma on the matter of land conservation and on land-based knowledge. He is also a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.

Carroll has also been a fellow of the National Institutes of Health's Native Investigator Development Program, the Ford Foundation, the Udall Foundation, the National Science Foundation, Northeastern State University, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He is an associate professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He also began a project in July 2017 at the University of Colorado, Boulder focused on encouraging the passing down of Indigenous cultural knowledge and practices. Funded by the Faculty Early Career Development Award, a grant from the National Science Foundation and lasting five years, the project trained five Cherokee undergraduate students and one graduate student on tribal knowledge with the end objective being for the undergraduate students to create an environmental education curriculum plan, and the graduate student to be trained in the Comparative Ethnic Studies PhD program with Carroll. In addition, research carried out during this project pertained not only to cultural knowledge but also to environmental and climate shifts. The project was completed in Oklahoma cities with relatively high populations of Cherokee individuals.

In 2024, Carroll was named Northeastern State University's Sequoyah Fellow.