Professor of Politics - Babson College, Wellesley, MA
Treasurer, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Political Science, New School for Social Research, 2001.
M.A. Political Science, New School for Social Research, 1995.
B.A. Political Science, Simon Fraser University, 1991.
PUBLICATIONS/RESEARCH
Books
Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States. The University of North Carolina Press, Critical Indigeneities Series, 2021
The Third Space of Sovereignty: The Postcolonial Politics of U.S.-Indigenous Relations. University of Minnesota Press, Indigenous Americas Series, 2007.
Published and in-Progress Journal Articles and Chapters (last 10 years)
Work-in-Progress “Where is the Story of Land in Higher Education?” for Campuses and Colonialism Symposium (leading to edited volume), co-sponsored by The University of North Carolina’s Center for the Study of the American South and Southern Methodist University’s Clements Center for Southwest Studies. (September 2021)
“When is the Past not the Past?” for Roundtable, “No More Nations Within Nations: Indigenous Sovereignty after the End of Treaty-Making in 1871” The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Vol 20. 2021.
“The BDS Movement, Political Theory and Settler Memory,” Contemporary Political Theory, Vol. 18, #3. (2019): 452-456.
“Thinking with Stuart Hall’s Fateful Triangle through the Knotted Triangle of Intersectionality, Racial Capitalism and Settler Colonialism,” Contexto Internacional: Journal of Global Connections, Vol. 4, No. 2. May/August 2019.
“Wake Work vs. Work of Settler Memory: Modes of Solidarity in #NoDAPL, Black Lives Matter and anti-Trumpism,” in Jaskiran Dhillon and Nicholas Estes eds. Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement. University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
“Creolizing Collective Memory: Refusing the Settler Memory of the Reconstruction Era,” The Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy. Vol XXV, No 2. 2017.
“On William Connolly’s ‘Drugs, The Nation and Free-Lancing: Decoding the Moral Universe of William Bennett.’” Theory & Event. Vol. 20, #1. 2017.
“Race, Colonialism, and the Politics of Indian Sports Names and Mascots: The Washington Football Team Case,” NAIS: The Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. Volume 3, #2. Fall 2016.
“Codename Geronimo: Settler Memory and the Production of American Statism,” Settler Colonial Studies, special issue, Michael Griffiths and Bruno Cornellier eds. Volume 6, # 4, 2016.
“Bruyneel on Red Pedagogy – Chapter 6: Better Red than Dead: Toward a Nation-Peoples and a Peoples Nation,” in Sandy Grande et al. Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought; The 10th Anniversary edition. Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
“Migration and settlement: An indigenous studies perspective on the politics of migration in settler states,” in APSA Migration and Citizenship Section Newsletter. Ron Schmidt and Dvora Yanow, eds. Vol. 3, #1. Winter 2014/15.
“Social Science and the Study of Indigenous People’s Politics: Contributions, Omissions, and Tensions,” in The Oxford Handbook on Social Science and the Study of Indigenous Peoples' Politics: Contributions, Omissions, and Tensions Donna Lee Van Cott, Jose Antonio Lucero and Dale Turner, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, published online, April, 2014.
“The King’s Body: The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and the Politics of Collective Memory,” History and Memory. Vol. 26, #1. Spring/Summer 2014
“Letter from a Lovelorn Pre-Radical: Looking Forward and Backward at Martin Luther King Jr.,” in Living With Class: Philosophical Reflections on Identity and Material Culture, edited by Ron Scapp and Brian Seitz. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
“The Trouble with Amnesia: Collective Memory and Colonial Injustice in the United States,” in Political Creativity: The Mangle of Institutional Order, Agency and Change, edited by Gerald Berk, Dennis Galvan, and Victoria Hattam. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.
“The American Liberal Colonial Tradition,” Settler Colonial Studies. October 2013, Vol. 3, Nos. 3-4. (Reprinted in The Settler Complex: Recuperating Binarism in Colonial Studies, Patrick Wolfe, editor. UCLA Indian Studies Center Press. 2016.)
“Exiled, Executed, Exalted: Louis Riel, Homo Sacer, and the Production of Canadian Sovereignty.” Canadian Journal of Political Science, Volume 43, #3. September 2010.
Book Reviews and Other Writing (last 10 years)
“Review Essay: On Settler Colonialism. Review of Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership by Brenna Bhandar, Empire of the People: Settler Colonialism and the Foundations of Modern Democratic Thought by Adam Dahl, Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism by Onur Ulas Ince, & The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America by Sarah Deer.” The Review of Politics. Vol. 82. #1. Winter 2020.
Review of Native Land Talk: Indigenous and Arrivant Rights Theories by Yael Ben-zvi. NAIS: The Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. Vol. 6, #1. Spring 2019.
The White Settler Romance with Anticapitalism: On Iyko Day’s Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism. Theory & Event. Vol. 20, #2. April 2017.
Review essay, on Echoes of Mutiny: Race, Surveillance & Indian Anticolonialism in North America by Seema Rohi and Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States & American Indian Nations by Suzan Shown Harjo. Tulsa Law Review. Vol. 52, #3, Spring 2017.
Review of Redskin: Insult and Brand, by C. Richard King. NAIS: The Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. Vol. 4, #1, Spring 2017.
Review of Indian Spectacle: College Mascots and the Anxiety of Modern America by Jennifer Guiliano. Journal of American History. Vol. 103, #1, 2016.
Review of Formations of United States Colonialism edited by Alyosha Goldstein. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History (2016)
Entry on “Indian Citizenship Act, 1924,” in Dictionary of American History, Supplement: America in the World, 1776 to the Present. 2016
Review of On Sovereignty and Other Political Delusions by Joan Cocks. Radical Philosophy Issue 194, November/December 2015.
Entry on “Collective Memory,” Encyclopedia of Political Thought. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. 2015.
Joint Review of Shadow Nations: Tribal Sovereignty and the Limits of Legal Pluralism. by N. Bruce Duthu and Hollow Justice: A History of Indigenous Claims in the United States by David E. Wilkins. Perspective on Politics Vol. 12, #4, December 2014.
Review of Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada: Mythic Discourse and the Postcolonial State by Jennifer Reid. Great Plains Quarterly Vol. 33, #3, Summer 2013.
Review of Captured Justice: Native Nations and Public Law 280 by Duane Champagne & Carole Goldberg. Law and Politics Book Review Vol. 22 #11, 2012.
Review of Europe’s Indians: Producing Racial Difference, 1500-1900 by Vanita Seth. Perspectives on Politics Vol. 9, #3, September 2011.