I am a non-native settler scholar, born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, unceded, traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.

I received my PHD from the New School in New York City and now teach at Babson College. I work in the areas of political theory, critical race theory, Indigenous studies, settler colonialism, U.S. Politics, and collective memory.

I live with my partner Pagan Kennedy and our dog Sonny, and spend my time in various parts of Massachusetts and in Brooklyn.

“Kevin Bruyneel’s pathbreaking, indispensable book exposes the persistence of settler memory and lays out a path to resist it. The lessons are clear: there can be no freedom under the settler state, no justice without returning the land, no liberation without Indigenous sovereignty, no future without decolonization.”—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

“As Black and Indigenous identities are needlessly pitted against one another within a white supremacist ideology, Bruyneel offers a way through, liberating key moments of America’s racial history from static retellings and centering Indigenous people in the nation’s present and future political life.”—Malinda Maynor Lowery, author of The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle