Each year, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education magazine features 12 rising researchers, thinkers and leaders in its Emerging Scholars edition. In the January 2012 edition, Dr. Majel Boxer, assistant professor and chair of the Department of Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS), will be recognized as one of Diverse’s outstanding scholars under the age of 40, along with 11 other professors from colleges such as the University of Massachusetts, Cornell University, the University of Arizona and the University of Georgia.