Dr. Whiteley studies the cultures, social structures, social histories, and environmental relations in Native North America from the 17th century to the present. His research focuses on four areas: Hopi society, culture, and polity in northern Arizona, based on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research over the last two decades; Cayuga and other Six Nations Iroquois social and political history in northeastern North America and the trans-Mississippi West, based on continuing ethnographic fieldwork and archival research begun in 1999; Hupa society and culture in northwestern California, based on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research beginning in 1993; and Eastern and Western Pueblo intercultural relations and sociopolitical transformations during and after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, informed by ongoing ethno-historic research among the Pueblos, and archival research, with current and recent projects on the destruction of Awat'ovi, a Hopi town, in 1700, as part of a Hopi revitalization movement.