Dr. Kimberly R. Huyser is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. She is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation and grew up on the Navajo reservation in Arizona, USA. Dr. Huyser received her BA from Calvin University in 2003 and her Ph.D. – Sociology in 2010 from the University of Texas at Austin with an Indigenous Studies Graduate Portfolio and a traineeship from the Population Research Center at UT, Austin. Her scholarship combines medical sociology and the sociology of race and ethnicity.

The central intellectual motivation driving her research agenda is to gain a deeper understanding of the social conditions that undermine health, as well as to identify the cultural and social resources leveraged by racial and ethnic groups in order to further their individual and collective health and well-being. Her current and future research contributes to our understanding of the social determinants of health problems faced by Indigenous peoples and it furthers our comprehension of the social mechanisms that undergird population health.

*Indicates Equal Authors; Graduate Student Co-Author Underlined

Collins Katherine A, Michelle Johnson-Jennings, Traci-Lee D Christianson, Carly G. Morrisseau, Tamara Chavez, Jonathan C. Lin, Mary G. Jessome, and Kimberly R. Huyser. 2024. “#BeadAndThrive: How Social Media Can Support Research as an Iterative Process.” SAGE Research Methods Cases: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research. DOI: 10.4135/9781529690866

Huyser, Kimberly R., Aggie J. Yellow Horse, Katherine A. Collins, Jaimy Fischer, Mary G. Jessome, Emma T. Ronayne, Jonathan C. Lin, Jordan Derkson, and Michelle Johnson-Jennings. 2022. Understanding the Associations among Social Vulnerabilities, Indigenous Peoples, and COVID-19 Cases within Canadian Health Regions. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(19):12409. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph191912409

Huyser, Kimberly R. and Sofia Locklear. 2022. “Education and Income Outcomes of American Indian and Alaska Native Men: An Examination of Military Service as Mediator of Social Mobility in the United States.” Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy. doi.org/10.1007/s41996-022-00101-z

Yellow Horse, Aggie J, Francesco Acciai, and Kimberly R Huyser. 2022. “”Investigating the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives–Relevant Causes of Death as the Major Source of the Life Expectancy Gap for the American Indian and Alaska Native Population, 2010–2019.” Epidemiology. (DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000001509)

Huyser, Kimberly R.*, and Sofia Locklear.* 2021. “Reversing Statistical Erasure of Indigenous Peoples: The Social Construction of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the US using National Datasets.” Chapter in Walter, M., Kukutai, T., Gonzales, A.A., & Henry, R. (eds). The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Sociology. Oxford University Press: New York. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197528778.013.34 

Huyser, Kimberly R., Aggie J. Yellow Horse, Alena A. Kuhlemeier, and Michelle R. Huyser. 2021. “COVID-19 Pandemic and Indigenous Representation in Public Health Data.” American Journal of Public Health. 111(S3):S208-S214. (DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2021.306415)

Huyser, Kimberly R., Sofia Locklear, Connor M. Sheehan, Brenda L. Moore, and John Sibley Butler. 2021. “Consistent Honor, Persistent Disadvantage: American Indian and Alaska Native Veteran Health in the National Survey of Veterans.” Journal of Aging and Health. (DOI: 10.1177/08982643211014034)

Yellow Horse, Aggie J., and Kimberly R. Huyser. 2021. “COVID-19 Data Availability, Data Quality, and American Indian and Alaska Native Population.” Journal of Population Research. (DOI: 10.1007/s12546-021-09261-5)

Huyser, Kimberly R., Tse-Chuan Yang, and Aggie J. Yellow Horse. 2021. “Indigenous Peoples, Concentrated Disadvantage, and Income Inequality in New Mexico: A ZIP code-level Investigation of Spatially-Varying Associations between Socioeconomic Disadvantages and Confirmed COVID-19 Cases.”  Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. (DOI: 10.1136/jech-2020-215055)

Deschine Parkhurst, Nicholet A.*, Kimberly R. Huyser*, and Aggie J. Yellow Horse*. 2020. “Historical Environmental Racism, Structural Inequalities, and Dik’os Ntsaaígíí-19 (COVID-19) on Navajo Nation.” Journal of Indigenous Social Development. 9(3): 127-140 (E-ISSN: 2164-9170)

Huyser, Kimberly R. 2020. “Data and Native American Identity.” Contexts. 19(3): 10-15. (DOI: 10.1177/1536504220950395)