Faculty Note | Zoltan Grossman | 2025-2026

Zoltán Grossman delivered the 2025 Evergreen graduation faculty speech, and in 2026 presented on “Power Back: Native Nations Projecting Authority Back into Stolen Lands” to the American Association of Geographers in San Francisco. He became a member of the Exhibitions and Programs Advisory Committee of the new Olympia Arts & Heritage Alliance Museum, and an editor for the Natural History Museum’s “Words Are Monuments” place-name project. For the Critical Edge Alliance international gathering at Evergreen, he organized the Community Engagement Day visit to the Squaxin Island and Nisqually tribes. He lectured on Evergreen Native Studies projects to the Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf in Germany, and served on a Ph.D. dissertation committee for the Université Bordeaux Montaigne in France. When ICE and National Guardsman occupied U.S. cities, he published “A Brief History of U.S. Military Interventions Within the United States,” and “10 Reasons Why ICE is Harassing Native Americans” (ZNet and Counterpunch), and was interviewed by RiverWest Radio. During the Iran War, he has lectured about Iran to LELO-Seattle and the Olympia Forum on the Iran Crisis, published “Escalation of this War Could Shatter Iran into Ethnic Enclaves” (Portside), organized the “Interventions Headstones” educational project, and was interviewed by A Public Affair and Matenaer on Air. He later published “Trump’s Wars are Putting the ‘Geo’ Back Into Geopolitics” in Dialogues in Human Geography. Native nations maps produced by his “Art and Place” students were displayed in the Evergreen Library in spring, and will be exhibited in the Evergreen Gallery in fall, along with wool weavings produced by Susan Pavel’s students.