Grace Bulltail

Dr. Grace Bulltail is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Nelson Institute, affiliated with the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment. Her research spans water resource engineering, natural resource management, land use, water quality science, and environmental justice in Indigenous communities. She specializes in studying water quality impacts from natural resource extraction on tribal lands, examining the relationship between water, energy, and land use within sovereign tribal nations.

Her work focuses on tribal lands where water resources are governed by sovereign tribal nations, documenting how natural resource extraction affects water systems in these communities. Dr. Bulltail investigates environmental justice dimensions of resource management policies through interdisciplinary approaches that combine engineering principles with Indigenous sovereignty frameworks.