Riding In is a citizen of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma and an associate professor of American Indian Studies at Arizona State University. He has played a prominent role in the development of American Indian Studies at Arizona State University and he is the editor of Wicazo Sa Review: A Journal of Native American Studies. He has just begun his second term as the chair of the Pawnee Nation College's Board of Trustees. His research about Pawnee history, American Indian Studies, and other issues has appeared in various books and scholarly journals. He served as the principle investigator and co-author of a 2008 study entitled Federal Agency Implementation of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. Riding In is the also co-author of Native America Writes Back: The Decolonization Reader in American Indian History, a book manuscript now under review, and is completing a book about Indians and the Santa Fe Trail.

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