Zoltan Grossman

Zoltan Grossman is a Professor of Geography in Native American and Indigenous Studies at The Evergreen State College since 2005. He specializes in cartography and research on settler-Indigenous alliances, decolonization, and environmental justice. His 2017 book Unlikely Alliances: Native Nations and White Communities Join to Defend Rural Lands highlights his interdisciplinary approach. He integrates social, racial, and environmental justice into teaching, emphasizing community collaboration.

His work includes mapping cultural and ecological placemaking, military networks, and geographies of empire. Students in his programs have created projects like the Olympia's Hidden Histories walking tours, which received a Heritage Award from the Olympia Historical Society. Grossman also co-developed Guidelines for Working with Native Communities with Evergreen's Center for Community-Based Learning and Action.

Active in academic leadership, he served as past co-chair of the American Association of Geographers’ Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group. Future projects include collaborating with the Puyallup Tribe on decolonizing Pacific Northwest place names.